An Overview of Kanji You Should Know
08/06/20261 min read
Translated from the Vietnamese original. View the original.
Important things to know when learning kanji
– Kanji (漢字 – かんじ) are logographic characters borrowed from Chinese, used in the modern Japanese writing system together with hiragana and katakana.
– Kanji were either borrowed from Chinese characters or created by the Japanese themselves.
– Hiragana and katakana do not carry meaning; they only represent sounds. Kanji represent meaning.
– Today the names of stations and shops and all signs are written in kanji, so without learning kanji, daily life becomes very difficult.
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See also:
160 N4–N5 Kanji for Beginners PDF
The 214 Kanji Radicals PDF