Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book Volume 2. Eriko Sato, Ph.D.

      

      Learning

       JAPANESE

       KANJI

       Practice Book

       VOLUME 2

      ERIKO SATO

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      Contents

       Introduction

       春 夏 秋 冬

       化 物 理 料

       安 高 売 買

       部 屋 品 家

       自 員 私 体

       試 験 使 用

       音 楽 歌 声

       話 説 作 合

       考 知 思 心

       重 動 働 力

       英 字 文 漢

       田 肉 野 菜

       運 転 通 不

       犬 鳥 牛 好

       勉 強 習 教

       朝 夜 旅 風

       正 答 質 問

       近 遠 場 所

       方 住 地 図

       発 着 和 洋

       広 明 室 館

       走 歩 止 短

       開 閉 門 店

       工 事 産 業

       病 院 死 者

       県 市 区 町

       Practice 1

       Practice 2

       Practice 3

       Practice 4

       Practice 5

       Practice 6

       Practice 7

       Practice 8

       Practice 9

       Practice 10

       Practice 11

       Practice 12

       Practice 13

       Practice 14

       Practice 15

       Practice 16

       Practice 17

       Practice 18

       Practice 19

       Practice 20

       Practice 21

       Practice 22

       Practice 23

       Practice 24

       Practice 25

       Practice 26

       Radical Index

       Readings Index

       Japanese–English Index

       English–Japanese Index

      Introduction

      Modern Japanese can be written horizontally, from left to right, or vertically, from top to bottom. Japanese is one of the rare languages that uses multiple writing systems simultaneously, sometimes even in the same sentence. It is written by combining Chinese characters, called kanji, and two sets of syllabic alphabets called kana (hiragana and katakana) along with a few punctuation marks. Each kanji character represents a meaning, while each kana character represents a sound. For example, the following short sentence contains kanji, hiragana, and katakana: