unseenjapan, to Japan
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Most Japanese names can be read multiple ways, and so-called "kira kira" names are especially notorious for flouting the norm. We here at UJ rounded up ten of the hardest kira kira names to read and test your kanji knowledge to its limits (and beyond).

https://unseen-japan.com/10-difficult-japanese-kirakira-names/

unseenjapan, to Japan
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Japan maintains an "official" list of kanji. But some "unofficial" kanji are also in common use - and chances are you know a few. Here are some of the most popular that most people use and know despite being on the naughty list.

https://unseen-japan.com/uncommon-kanji-outside-joyo-kanji/

ncoca, to Catroventos
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Saw a Japanese person's LinkedIn profile and it said they are fluent in 英語. Very curious what language that is - perhaps a Chinese dialect? I know its not Mandarin, Cantonese, or Korean.

Nah, it's just . Learned a new !

unseenjapan, to Japan
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You may be a master of kanji when it comes to engineering, but that might be a completely different story when a sushi menu is thrust in front of you. Here is a quick guide to a number of common food-related kanji you may encounter on Japanese restaurant menus.

https://unseen-japan.com/tackling-food-kanji-in-japanese-menus/

thejapantimes, to Life
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In addition to "maruhara," or "period harassment," younger employees want to cut down on the unnecessary emails that are a part of work culture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/04/02/language/period-harassment-maruhara-japanese-work-culture/

iainmerrick, to japanese
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I'm still learning Japanese vocabulary on the side. Every so often I'm excited to realise I can figure out the kanji for words I already knew. For example, I just now realised that "dojo" → dō jō → 道 場 → "way place", i.e. the place where you study the Way (whichever dō that is — kendo, judo, etc).

Another fun one is "daimyo", who are your old-timey samurai clan chieftains. I always used to mispronounce this as "diam-yo", but it's actually dai-myō → 大名 → "big name"!

#japanese #kanji

unseenjapan, to Japan
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Every time you encounter Japanese outside the classroom, it’s a chance to reinforce what you already know or learn something new. If you don’t know even the basic writing systems, you’re losing out on so many opportunities to boost your skills.

https://unseen-japan.com/japanese-learning-no-romaji/

thejapantimes, to Life
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Areas hit by the New Year's Day earthquake find themselves subject to damaging misinformation as they try to focus on reconstruction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/02/23/language/rumor-gossip-japanese-language-misinformation/

chikorita157, to random
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For those who celebrate, Happy Lunar New Year

Some trivia: Japan actually uses both the 旧字体 (old character form, which are the original traditional Chinese characters) and 新字体 (new character forms used after 1946 in Japan) of Dragon.

If you are learning Japanese and reading Japanese content, you will come across both 龍 and 竜. The former is the traditional form, which is usually refers to Chinese dragons while 竜 is usually used for western dragons.

We know that 龍 looks cooler, though. :sylveonsmug:

unseenjapan, to Japan
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We typically write them in katakana now - but these Japanese words originally had kanji. How many of these can YOU read?

https://buff.ly/49pEjAz

maxd, to random
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Me learning on a Sunday morning

liztai, to random
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I find it cute that 找 (to look) is basically 我 (I) but with 手 (hand) and 戈 (dagger) separated. So, the hand is looking for the dagger, see?

PS: This is how I remember the characters, with a story!

josh,

@liztai I’m trying to learn japanese, very scared when i get to kanji 😬

riley, to anki
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I need some help with my kanji study, mostly ensuring that my Anki cards are using the correct font. The kanji for household "家" is being rendered in a certain way here, however in another deck of cards I have as well as the Wiktionary page it's rendered like in the second image. Are they both correct or is this a font issue? I've heard of people accidentally learning Chinese characters because their font was set improperly and I'm keen to avoid that.

The Wiktionary page for "家"

thejapantimes, to Japan
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The kanji character “zei” (税), which means taxes, was selected Tuesday as the character that best represents 2023, the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/12/japan/japan-kanji-of-2023/?utm_content=buffer38643&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

icanzilb, to sketch
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橋 Bridge

bitbonk, to LearnJapanese
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金 : gold
玉 : ball
金玉 : testicles

hikeri, to LearnJapanese

ok so right now i can recognize more or less abt 200 #kanji and as someone who recently couldn't make heads or tails of the script i take that as a win! #languagelearning #japanese
:dance_cool_doge: :dance_cool_doge: :dance_cool_doge:

daredevil, to LearnJapanese Japanese
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daredevil, (edited ) to LearnJapanese Japanese
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