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	jinmeiyo kanji - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		With the publication of the ministerial opinion of 1946, which limited the number of kanji usable in Japanese (the tōyō kanji), much of kanji used in proper names could not be used any more.
		In Japan, name kanji are taught at the junior-high level, and mastery of the name kanji are required to achieve Level 2 of the Kanji kentei Japanese proficiency test.
		Introduction of the jōyō kanji, substraction of 8 kanji (since added in the jōyō kanji) and addition of 54 kanji for a total of 166 characters.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/jinmeiyo-kanji (1051 words)

	Jinmeiyō kanji - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Japan, name kanji are taught at the junior-high level, and mastery of the name kanji are required to achieve Level 2 of the Kanji kentei Japanese proficiency test.
		Introduction of the jōyō kanji, subtraction of 8 kanji (since added in the jōyō kanji) and addition of 54 kanji for a total of 166 characters.
		It was proposed to the council on jinmeiyō kanji of the legislative council of the Ministry of Justice.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Jinmeiyo_kanji (865 words)

	kanji - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Kanji are one of the five character sets used in the modern Japanese writing system, the other four being hiragana, katakana, the Roman alphabet (rōmaji), and Arabic numerals.
		Many ateji (kanji used only for their phonetic value) have meanings derived from their usage: for example, the now-archaic 亜細亜 ajia was formerly used to write "Asia" in kanji; the character 亜 now means Asia in such compounds as 東亜 tōa, "East Asia".
		The ideographic iteration mark (々) is used to indicate that the preceeding kanji is to be repeated, functioning similarly to a ditto mark in English.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Kanji (2887 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Kanji
		Kanji are one of the five character sets used in the modern Japanese writing system, the other four being hiragana, katakana, the Roman alphabet (rand#333;maji), and Arabic numerals.
		In modern Japanese, kanji is used to write certain parts of the language, such as nouns, adjective stems and verb stems, while hiragana is used to write inflected verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, and words where the kanji is too difficult to read or remember.
		The ideographic iteration mark (and#12293;) is used to indicate that the preceding kanji is to be repeated, functioning similarly to a ditto mark in English.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=kanji (2889 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Kanji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kanji are one of the five character sets used in the modern Japanese writing system, the other four being hiragana, katakana, the Roman alphabet (rōmaji), and Arabic numerals.
		Many ateji (kanji used only for their phonetic value) have meanings derived from their usage: for example, the now-archaic 亜細亜 ajia was formerly used to write "Asia" in kanji; the character 亜 now means Asia in such compounds as 東亜 tōa, "East Asia".
		The ideographic iteration mark (々) is used to indicate that the preceding kanji is to be repeated, functioning similarly to a ditto mark in English.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Kanji (3060 words)

	Jinmeiyō kanji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Japan, name kanji are taught at the junior-high level, and mastery of the name kanji are required to achieve Level 2 of the Kanji kentei Japanese proficiency test.
		Introduction of the jōyō kanji, subtraction of 8 kanji (since added in the jōyō kanji) and addition of 54 kanji for a total of 166 characters.
		It was proposed to the council on jinmeiyō kanji of the legislative council of the Ministry of Justice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jinmeiyo_kanji (851 words)

	Discover Japan: Learn Japanese \| learn japanese, learn japanese language, learn to speak japanese
		A kanji may have zero, one or several of each of on-yomi and kun-yomi.
		Today, 1,945 kanji characters are taught in the nine years of compulsory education, together with Hiragana and Katakana that represent 46 characters each.
		A female disguised as a male could be written to use Kanji watashi when her secret is kept with the appropriate conjugation of verbs.
	www.japandiscovery.com /culture_arts/learn_jap/writing.html (1160 words)

	Kanji - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In modern Japanese, kanji is used to write parts of the language such as nouns, adjective stems and verb stems, while hiragana is used to write inflected verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, native Japanese words, and words where the kanji is too difficult to read or remember.
		While kanji are essentially Chinese hanzi used to write Japanese, there are now significant differences between kanji and hanzi, including the use of characters created in Japan, characters that have been given different meanings in Japanese, and post WWII simplifications of the kanji.
		Kanji, whose thousands of symbols defy ordering by convention such as is used with the Roman Alphabet, uses radical-and-stroke sorting to order a list of Kanji words.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Kanji (3729 words)

	Kanji kentei - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The test examines ability to read and write kanji, to understand their meanings and use them correctly in sentences, and to identify correct stroke order.
		Tests the 440 kanji learned up to the third grade of elementary school, including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.
		Tests the 1006 kanji learned up to the sixth grade of elementary school (the kyoiku kanji), including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kanji_kentei (795 words)

	Alternative sci.lang.japan Frequently Asked Questions
		Kanjis discusses the use of Chinese characters in Japanese, which are known as `kanji'.
		Most of the kanjis were invented by the Chinese, but some common characters in Japanese, and also a lot of very obscure ones, were actually invented by the Japanese themselves.
		The reason Japanese uses the `me' kanji (米) of `amerika' rather than the `a' one (亜) is because Japanese uses the `a' kanji as an abbreviation of `ajia' (asia): this originates from the kanji writing of `ajia' as 亜細亜.
	mirrors.nihongo.org /www.hayamasa.demon.co.uk/afaq/afaq-full.html (11235 words)

	Bamboo Hermitage \| Japanese Translation, Japanese Logos and Japanese Names
		Kanji are the logograms literally mean Chinese characters or Han (Dynasty) characters.
		Kanji were introduced to Japan when they were imported from China and Korean penninsula during 5th and 6th centuries.
		Three categories are Kyôiku kanji (kanji for education), Jôyô kanji (kanji for daily use) and Jinmeiyô kanji (kanji for people's name).
	www.freewebs.com /bamboo-hermitage/kanjihiraganaandkatakana.htm (758 words)

	EZGeography - Kanji
		There is some disagreement about how the use of Chinese characters began in Japan, but it is generally accepted that Buddhist monks brought Chinese texts back to Japan in about the 5th century.
		On'yomi primarily occur in multi-kanji compound words (熟語 jukugo), many of which are the result of the adoption (along with the kanji themselves) of Chinese words for concepts that either didn't exist in Japanese or could not be articulated as elegantly using native words.
		The ideographic iteration mark (々) is used to indicate that the preceding kanji is to be repeated, functioning similarly to a ditto mark in English.
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Kanji (3047 words)

	Kanji - Aikiwiki
		Originally they were written using kanji, chosen either for their meaning (煙草 or 莨 tabako) or to spell the word phonetically (天婦羅 or 天麩羅 tempura).
		Some kanji also have lesser-known readings called nanori, which are mostly used for people's names (often given names), and are generally closely related to the kun'yomi.
		Similarly kanji with the 雨 (rain) shape (雲, 電, 雷, 雪, 霜, etc.) are almost invariably related to weather.
	www.aikiwiki.org /wiki/Kanji (3507 words)

	International JFL Cafe. Japanese language jinmeiyo kanji.
		As a general rule, the characters accepted in names registered by families can only come from the joyo kanji, the jinmeiyo kanji, the katakana and the hiragana (excluding the hentaigana).
		With the publication of the ministerial opinion of 1946, which limited the number of kanji usable in Japanese (the toyo kanji), much of kanji used in proper names could not be used any more.
		So it remained until May 25, 1951, the date on which the Ministry specified the first 90 jinmeiyo kanji, the name of new-born babies could be made up only of the 1850 toyo kanji.
	www.internationaleflcafe.com /japanese-language-jinmeiyo-kanji.htm (825 words)

	Katakana Characters
		Models of 500 kanji characters, written by award-winning Japanese calligraphers, are arranged according to their radical groups.
		Jinmeiyo kanji - The jinmeiyÅ kanji (äººåç”¨æ¼¢å—) are a set of 983 kanji known as the "name kanji" in English.
		During the Edo period, kanji were used phonetically to write English and other foreign words, but in the modern period katakana have become the principal target script.
	sw3.macblo.com /katakanacharacters.html (1062 words)

	Kanji kentei information - Search.com
		The test examines ability to read and write kanji, to understand their meanings and use them correctly in sentences, and to identify correct stroke order.
		Tests the 440 kanji learned up to the third grade of elementary school, including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.
		Tests the 1006 kanji learned up to the sixth grade of elementary school (the kyoiku kanji), including on readings and kun readings, stroke order, writing ability, ability to use in sentences, and the names of radicals.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Kanji_kentei (787 words)

	How has Wikipedia improved? » 世論 What Japan Thinks
		It seems to be in reference to the previous paragraph, which talks about using the old versus the new form of the same kanji in people’s names, not using a similar kanji with a different meaning but the same reading.
		Kanji names in Japan are governed by the government’s rules on kanji use.
		There are currently (Oct 2004) 2,232 “name kanji” (the jinmeiyo kanji) used in personal names […] Japanese government regulations currently restrict the number of kanji that can be used in naming infants to 2,230, but many old characters are still intact in adults’ names.
	whatjapanthinks.com /2006/06/29/how-has-wikipedia-improved (1392 words)

	Rolomail Database
		Japanese Kanji Flashcards Volume 1 For Level 3 and 4 JLPT Whether or not you are planning to take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), you'll find this revised edition of the Japanese Kanji Flashcards Vol.
		Kanji and Kana This Revised Edition is a comprehensive guide to the reading and writing of the Japanese language, providing all the information needed to master the basic characters (kanji) and the syllabaries (kana).
		The Kanji Dictionary This is the only kanji dictionary of its kind to employ a revolutionary multiple-reference compound system.
	www.rolomail.com (4712 words)

	Chinese character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		These are simply guidelines, hence many characters outside these standards are still widely known and commonly used, especially those used for personal and place names (for the former, see Jinmeiyo kanji).
		Newspapers have dealt with this problem in varying ways, including using software to combine two existing, similar characters, including a picture of the personality, or, especially as is the case with Yu Shyi-kun, simply substituting a homophone for the rare character in the hope that the reader would be able to make the correct inference.
		Japanese newspapers may render such names and words in katakana instead of kanji, and it is accepted practice for people to write names for which they are unsure of the correct kanji in katakana instead.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Chinese_script.html (5780 words)

	Kanji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ideographic iteration mark (々) is used to indicate that the preceeding kanji is to be repeated, functioning similarly to a
		Kanji alive (http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu) A free, searchable, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners read and write kanji.
		Kanji Word Families (http://www.kotoba-project.com/kanjiintro.html): Study method based on thesis that kanji evolved from seven primordial concepts.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Kanji (2895 words)

	Kanji
		"list of kanji by school year") is a list of 1,006 kanji and associated readings developed and maintained by the Japanese Ministry of Education that prescribes which kanji, and which readings of kanji, Japanese schoolchildren should learn for each year of elementary school.
		Kanji kentei - The Kanji Kentei (æ¼¢å—æ¤å®, sometimes shortened to Kanken), is a test of kanji ability.
		JÅyÅ kanji - The jÅyÅ kanji (å¸¸ç”¨æ¼¢å—) are the 1,945 kanji issued by the Ministry for Education on October 10, 1981.
	edu.tmadata.com /Kanji.html (748 words)

	Chinese_character Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
		These are simply guidelines, hence many characters outside these standards are still widely known and commonly used, especially those used for personal and place names (for the former, see Jinmeiyo kanji).
		"frequently used kanji") designated by the Japanese Ministry of Education; these are taught during primary and secondary school.
		In times past, until the 15th century, in Korea, Chinese was the only form of written communication, prior to the creation of Hangul, the Korean alphabet.
	www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=Chinese_character§ion=5 (5071 words)

	Marking Kendo-gear (bogu and shinai/bokuto) - Page 3 - Kendo World Forums
		My kanji was a gift from 3 of my Japanese teammates, who spent hours texting one another with ideas, as well as conferring with other mothers in the dojo, before presenting me with ideas.
		The second kanji could be 成, which is read as the 'na' in 'naru', or in a name quite often as 'nari'.
		My Taiwanese friend has kanji, and it was a huge fight with them when he wanted to use his own chop, which was official and the correct size, as well as his first/last name kanji to represent his name.
	www.kendo-world.com /forum/showthread.php?p=229496 (2857 words)

	Jinmeiyō kanji
		En date du 12 juillet 2004, il y a 290 kanji autorisé pour les noms de personnes.
		Addition de 28 kanji pour un total de 120 caractères.
		Introduction des jōyō kanji, retrait de 8 kanji (puisque ajouté dans les jōyō kanji) et addition de 54 kanji pour un total de 166 caractères.
	encyclopedie.snyke.com /articles/inmeiyxx_kanji.html (623 words)

	Kanji Symbol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With numerous exercises kanji symbol and charts, students learn to be aware of the subtile differences that distinguish one symbol from another.
		Jōyō kanji - The jōyō kanji (常用漢字) are the 1,945 kanji issued by the Japanese Ministry of Education on October 10, 1981.
		Every aspect free kanji tattoo symbol and type of tattoo is included, from delicate free kanji tattoo symbol and beautiful flowers free kanji tattoo symbol and rock 'n' roll icons, to Buddhist prayer symbols free kanji tattoo...
	te36.umc-mobile.com /kanjisymbol.html (1299 words)

	Kanji Characters
		Kanji - Kanji (Japanese:) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (å¹³ä»®å), katakana (çä»®å), and the arabic numerals.
		Toyo kanji - The tÅyÅ kanji (å½“ç”¨æ¼¢å—, "kanji for general use") are the result of a reform of the characters of Chinese origin in the Japanese written language.
		He currently attends Carnegie Mellon anime club and has her own fan club consisting of many of the kanji in order to soothe her sorrow, an agreement was made between Professor Hasegawa is the first creature Mina has acquired.
	ka80.g-style-japan.com (807 words)

	Kanji Symbol for Destiny
		Baggy Workout Pants are constructed of 60/40 cotton/poly jersey knit blended fabric.Features two side seam pockets 3 inch waistband with drawstring kanji symbol for destiny and extra room in thigh/tapered to ankle.
		Its form is a horizontal or vertical line in the center of the text with the width of one kanji or kana character.
		JÅyÅ kanji - The jÅyÅ kanji (å¸¸ç”¨æ¼¢å—) are the 1,945 kanji issued by the Japanese Ministry of Education on October 10, 1981.
	st92.g-style-japan.com /kanjisymbolfordestiny.html (943 words)

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