Lake Biwa (琵琶 湖) is the largest freshwater body in Japan. It is located in the Shiga prefecture and provides a supply of fresh water to nearly 15 million people in the Kansai area. Therefore it is an important…
This I hope would be an easy kanji to remember. It is an N1 level kanji, however it should be easy to memorize regardless of your level. There are three easy to remember radicals for this kanji: 斤 きん axe 扌てへん…
As I practiced writing out reading sections of my Japanese textbook, I thought I was writing out the right kanji for cat (猫 – ねこ / neko). Instead I made a slight mistake on the left radical and wrote 描, which…
In an earlier post on how human memory works, whose reading I recommend, I explained two fundamental methods our brain uses to memorize (learn). They are sequential and hierarchical patterns. In another post I explained the difference between recognizing and…
Kanji characters are very easy to produce now with the advent of Japanese IME input software. Almost too easy. You just start typing away the hiragana and kanji appear when you hit the space key. This is good in…
(I get how this completely contradicts the message that I have as my slogan for the blog. Nothing easy about this.) Recently I have been thinking about how to study kanji more effectively and retain it in memory. I have…
Here is another JLPT N1 kanji that you will not find often, but it would be WISE to learn it as it should be easy to remember precisely because it has limited usage. Onyomi: ソウ SOU Kunyomi: さとい/みみざとい satoi/mimizatoi Uses: 聡明 そうめい…
This post looks at a kanji which isn’t really used much, the kanji for clan. Kanji in the Spotlight: 藩 ハン CLAN This was a Japanese kanji used for the clans back in the Tokugawa and Edo periods. These days…
This time we are going over Japanese kanji that are considered JLPT N1 level, but could be easily memorized by a beginner. We will go over the japanese kanji for women or female, and how it is used in two…
These are the first three Japanese kanji characters that everybody learns. The kanji here represent the numbers one, two, and three. The meaning can be simply depicted from the number of strokes. There are two important writing rules that a…
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