tailieunhanh - Remembering the Kanji volume 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'remembering the kanji volume 3', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | CONTENTS PREFACE by Tanya Sienko 5 INTRODUCTION 7 PART ONE: WRITING 1 New Primitives & Kanji Primitives 15 2 Major Primitive Elements 28 3 Miscellaneous Kanji 144 4 Western Measurements 160 5 Phonetic Characters 162 6 Old & Alternate Forms 165 PART TWO: READING 7 Old Pure Groups 177 8 New Pure Groups 203 9 Semi-Pure Groups 236 10 Mixed Groups 264 11 A Potpourri of Readings 299 12 Kanji with Japanese Readings Only 344 13 Readings of Old & Alternate Forms 355 14 Supplementary Kanji 359 INDEXES INDEX 1 Number of Strokes 371 INDEX 2 Keywords and Primitive Meanings 389 INDEX 3 Readings 418 INDEX 4 Primitive Elements 487 Layout of Frames for Part One 490 Layout of Frames for Part Two 491 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 493 Preface Tanya Sienko WHEN I FIRST contacted Dr. Heisig with a proposal to add a third vol- ume to Remembering the Kanji, I somehow left the impression that it was my rather esoteric needs as a scientist that left me hankering for more kanji than the 2,042 I had learned with his method. Actually, it was not the technical prose of Yukawa and Tomonaga on ³eld theory that were causing me my biggest headaches but ordinary Japanese nov- els. Having read mystery novels to polish my reading in other languages, I was disappointed to ³nd that the “essential” or “general-use” charac- ters were simply not enough to gain entry into the Japanese thriller. After just a few chapters, my maiden voyage ended on the rocks. So much for “basic literacy,” I thought to myself. And so was born the idea for this book. During the time of the American Occupation, the Japanese writing system underwent a complete overhaul, which saw the number of Chinese characters to be learned during the years of compulsory educa- tion reduced to a bare minimum of 1,850. The idea was to simplify the system and facilitate literacy by removing rarely used kanji from circula- tion. What the reformers did not count on in their long-range plan was the resistance of the general public to the disappearance of many .