Remembering the Kanji II: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters (Remembering the Japanese Characters Series) - Softcover

Heisig, James W.

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9780870407482: Remembering the Kanji II: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters (Remembering the Japanese Characters Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0870407481 ISBN 13: 9780870407482
Publisher: Japan Publications Trading, 1990

Synopsis

Beneath the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China in the fifth century, there lies a solid and rather ample base of coherent patterns. Discovering these patterns can reduce to a minimum the time spent in brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms. Volume II of REMEMBERING THE KANJI takes you step by step through the varieties of phonetic pattern and offers helpful hints for learning kanji that resist systematization.

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About the Author

JAMES W. HEISIG is a permanent research fellow of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture (Nagoya, Japan), where he has been since 1978 and which he served as director from 1991 to 2001.

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Publisher
Japan Publications Trading
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0870407481
ISBN 13 
9780870407482
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
397
Rating
  • 4.16 out of 5 stars
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