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The Everything Japanese Guide

The "Kanji Lab" is a series of in-depth articles about special problems related to kanji: look-alike kanji, low-frequency vs. high frequency readings, etc.

I'll be adding to this section frequently, so check back often:

(Note: If you are looking for basic kanji tables, click the "Kanji" hyperlink to the left.)

 

•  The Most Basic Kanji: 一

• The Human Side of Kanji 人

• What’s the Date?日

• Ten Thousand (or More) 万

• It's Raining Kanji 雨

• The Kanji that Cuts 切

• TE or SHU? 手

• Every Ocean has Water 毎 / 海

• The Watchful Eyes of Parents 新 / 親

• A Kanji for the Present 今

• Enough Feet Forward 足

• To Thy Own Self be True  自

• A Mountain of a Kanji 山

• A Kawa Runs Through It 川

• Trips and Tribes 族 / 旅

• 続 and 読

• The Kanji of the "Speech Radical" 言

• Holding My Tongue to Stay Alive 活 / 括

• The Kanji in Between 間

• The Two Monos 者・物

• NOT a Difficult Kanji 無