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Kanji Index |  |
| This is the index of kanji characters (322 unique kanji) that are introduced in Japanese 1001 through 3001. Click on each of the green kanji icons below to open the corresponding kanji dictionary file. Kanji characters in parentheses are previously introduced kanji with new readings. (Kanji in blue are introduced in Lesson 15 or later in Genki, and kanji in red are never introduced in Genki.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
After you have finished JAPN 3001, you will be eligible to take most upper level (3000-level and 4000-level) Japanese courses. The next level recommended beyond JAPN 3001 is to take JAPN 4113 (Advanced Reading and Listening). |
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Most Japanese courses at 3001 or below at GT focus on oral-aural skills. The study material for reading and writing are provided in each course starting at JAPN 1001, but relatively little direct classroom instruction in reading and writing is provided once kana and kanji concepts are introduced in JAPN 1001. Students will be on their own for the most part to study them with regular quizzes to check their progress. FYI: If you are a heritage-language speaker (someone who has grown up in the environment where Japanese is spoken regularly), you are not allowed to take JAPN 3001 or lower at GT. For these speakers, there are few new language facts and skills to be learned from JAPN 3001 or lower.
If you have lived in Japan and attended Japanese schools, you may already know more kanji than we introduce in 5 semesters of Japanese at GT (JAPN 1001 through JAPN 3001). For example, if you have already learned up to 4th grade level kanji (about 640 kanji) in Japan, that's about twice as many kanji characters introduced in JAPN 1001 through 3001 at GT.
Go to the following URL to learn more about 教育漢字 (Education Kanji): |
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A "radical" is a component of kanji that is used to classify each kanji systematically. A typical kanji dictionary used by native speakers in Japan organizes kanji characters by the radical and its number of strokes. Each radical has a nickname. A kanji character can consist of a radical itself or a radical with additional parts. For example, kanji for a man 男 is made of a radical 田 (rice field) and kanji for 力 (power). When memorizing kanji, sometimes, it helps to make up a story like this: Someone who uses his power (力) to work in the rice fields (田) is a man (男 ).
The following are the radicals to classify kanji. If there are two different radical classifications, they were both listed
below. The one not marked is the standard Japanese radical classification.
The one marked by
Radicals by the number of strokes
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is from The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Nelson, A.), 1974. (Often, the radical classification used by Nelson
is more intuitive to non-native speakers of Japanese.)
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