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

Heisig, James W.

ISBN 10: 0870407481 / ISBN 13: 9780870407482

Published by Japan Publications Trading, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembering the Kanji II: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters (Remembering the Japanese Characters Series)
• Publisher: Japan Publications Trading
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870407481
• ISBN 13: 9780870407482
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.