Kanji Information

In addition to the main KANJIDIC documentation, I have assembled several other pages of useful information about kanji.

• a quick overview of the different types of kanji.

• a list of the 214 kanji radicals with their names, etc. The Kanji alive site at the University of Chicago has an excellent page on the 214 radicals. Another very good source is Ben Bullock's sljfaq pages.

• a list of the Jouyou (common use) kanji and other kanji that are likely to be seen.

• a list of the standard readings of the Jouyou kanji.

• a great list of shinjitai/kyuujitai kanji pairs prepared by Leonardo Boiko.

• the kanji mnemonics from Henshall's "A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters". They were keyed by William Clausing, and this page covering the kanji taught in the first six grades of school has been compiled with permission from Professor Henshall and his publishers, Tuttle.

• the keywords in the "Remembering The Kanji" books by James Heisig. This list was contributed by Mike Spertus, who got Fr Heisig's approval for its inclusion.

• a page of kanji identified by their ON-reading phonetic components. The kanji phonetic components used are those described in the book The Kanji Code by Natalie Hamilton, and in particular are based in her list of components.

• information pages about several lookup methods for kanji (used in the WWWJDIC server)
  • SKIP codes
  • DeRoo codes
  • Four-Corner codes

Jim Breen
April 2008, September 2011, April 2012, June 2013