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Title: Kanji & Kana: A Handbook of the Japanese Writing System by Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark Spahn ISBN: 0-8048-2077-5 Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book for beginners
Comment: Though there are other books for kanji learning, this is truly the best out there for beginners, because not only this one includes stroke order of all the 1945 Jouyou Kanji (the number you need to learn in order to be able to read almost any japanese text without using the dictionary too much; actually you begin to feel comfortable reading once you get past the 1000 kanji), but it also has some preliminary -and very useful- statements on the use of japanese characters. The indexing systems are OK and easy to use. If you are looking for an electronic dictionary for kanji lookup, you may wanna try JWPce's. This is a japanese-capable wordprocessor (freeware) downloadable ....
It has many ways to look up a japanese character, with info on how to locate it in famous japanese character dictionaries such as this one, Nelson's and Halpern's, along with many more goodies that'd take too long to discuss. Worth a try.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very handy kanji reference
Comment: It is true this book is more for beginners. But as such, I found it to be the best tool for learning all the common kanji. Yes, there are other more exhaustive references, but it is a LOT harder to find the kanji you are looking for in those books. I have Nelson's character dictionary with about 5000 kanji and I hardly use it.
Kanji & Kana has plenty of examples, 4-5 for each character, but the main characters are used many other times subsequently in compounds with other kanji characters. So, for example, there may be 4 examples using the character for PERSON, but many other more advanced kanji also form compound words with PERSON, so you will find additional examples throughout the book. Both ON (Chinese) and KUN (Japanese) readings are given. The characters are ordered so that the most commonly used ones appear first, so that compound words you encounter later always reference only characters that have already been covered. This ordering may bother some who like to look up characters by radicals. Never fear, you have 3 indices in the back to look up characters based on reading, or radicals, or stroke count. Very handy.
This was my only Kanji dictionary while I studied Japanese for 2 years in college, and it is still my favorite.
Rating: 5
Summary: Indices make this book worth every penny!
Comment: This book is not trying to be what it is not, namely a dictionary or a textbook. This is a handbook reference guide. Finding a particular kanji is very easy with the near perfect indices.
This book starts out by giving a lot of background and into info on kanji and kana, some of it is more than most people studying Japanese would need. However, the complete and easy to read list of all of the Jouyou kanji list that follows provides the kanji drawn in both script and hand, the stroke order, several common readings, list of radicals used, and the meaning. After the main list is the Jinmei-you kanji list as well.
While other kanji books I've used have much of the same info, this book has the most intelligent indices that make repeated use of this book a breeze. There are 3: one by radical, one by stroke order, and one by readings (both On and Kun). The other kanji books I have (O'Neill's Essential Kanji, for one) do not have the ease of use that this book provides.
I use this on a regular basis to help keep the meanings, stroke orders, and readings fresh for myself. I think this book is great for those who have at least a couple of hundred kanji down pat and are looking to expand and solidify new ones. Trying to learn kanji by yourself is a difficult thing to do, but the New Nelson, while no one should deny its value as a dictionary, was not nearly as helpful to me as this book when it came down to expanding my kanji vocabulary.
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Title: Guide to Writing Kanji and Kana, Book 2: A Self-Study Workbook for Learning Japanese Characters by Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark Spahn ISBN: 0804816867 Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Guide to Writing Kanji & Kana Book 1: A Self-Study Workbook for Learning Japanese Characters by Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark Spahn ISBN: 0804833923 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-Japanese by Kodansha ISBN: 4770024800 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns (Kodansha Dictionary) by Naoko Chino ISBN: 4770026080 Publisher: Kodansha International (JPN) Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Kanji Dictionary by Mark Spahn, Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Kumiko Fujie-Winter ISBN: 0804820589 Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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