Tuesday, June 27, 2017

I Was Afraid I Would Have to Learn 20,000 or More

The number cited below is actually not that bad.

And then as you learn the radicals, you can start intuiting the meanings of kanji you might not have encountered before. Or not. Some are pretty idiosyncratic rather than intuitive.

"In Japan, there are only 2,136 Jōyō kanji (lit. commonly-used kanji), which are the ones taught in school, though literate people usually know more."

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