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: