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How to learn to read from photos of kanji - scarby dancer - 2013-03-13
I have dozens of photos of kanji taken during a week's visit to Tokyo before I did RTK. Now I'd like to learn to read them...
I can recognise many of the keywords, but putting them together doesn't necessarily help me figure out the meaning of a word / compound / sign. And since I don't know the reading, I can't type it into an online dictionary. Do I have to count the number of strokes of each kanji to look it up in a hardcopy dictionary to try and find the reading? And will that lead to eventually figuring out the meaning of a sign / notice, for instance? It seems like a painstaking way to go about reading - or is that what learning to read offline is like and I just have to face it?
Is there an online dictionary where I draw the kanji and it recognises it and brings up the reading and definition?
Or is there something like Rikaichan that can used over photos on a hard drive?
(I have a laptop with Windows 7 & Firefox, and a Galaxy Tab2 10.1)
I would appreciate any help you can offer. Many thanks.
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - DevvaR - 2013-03-13
jisho.org
Online Kanji Dictionary.
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - jmignot - 2013-03-13
tagainijisho (http://www.tagaini.net)
+ some patience …
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - scarby dancer - 2013-03-13
DevvaR Wrote:jisho.orgThank you!... Obviously, I could tell from the accompanying red prohibition circle over a phone what this meant: バスの中で電話携帯のご使用はご遠慮下さい. But now I can add 携帯電話、 ご使用 and ご遠慮 to my vocabulary and kanji study.
Online Kanji Dictionary.
I searched using the radicals. Does that seem the way to go? I'm not missing this on the site, am I? scarbydancer Wrote:Is there an online dictionary where I draw the kanji and it recognises it and brings up the reading and definition?@Hyperborea and @jmignot
Wow, I will check both of these out, thank you so much!
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - DevvaR - 2013-03-13
Be careful, that sentence is written in keigo.
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - scarby dancer - 2013-03-13
DevvaR Wrote:Be careful, that sentence is written in keigo.Meaning, ご使用 and ご遠慮 don't begin with ご ?
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - Inny Jan - 2013-03-13
scarby dancer Wrote:Is there an online dictionary where I draw the kanji and it recognises it and brings up the reading and definition?Not an online dictionary but standard Microsoft Japanese IME has "IME Pad" where you can draw a character and it will try to recognise it. For example, I've written the phrase below entirely (including the 。) in IME Pad.
漢字の書き方を教えて下さい。
HTH
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - scarby dancer - 2013-03-15
Inny Jan Wrote:Not an online dictionary but standard Microsoft Japanese IME has "IME Pad" where you can draw a character and it will try to recognise it....Thanks, Inny Jan! It's exactly what I need. And combined with the Denshi Jisho Bookmarklet, I'm having fun now working out the readings of the kanji in my photos.
HTH
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - anritsi - 2013-03-15
Capture2Text + a dictionary might be useful. Of course, sometimes the OCR makes mistakes, but it'd be better than mouse?-drawing all the kanji.
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - NightSky - 2013-03-16
scarby dancer Wrote:Right, they are 使用 and 遠慮, the "go" prefix is making it more polite.DevvaR Wrote:Be careful, that sentence is written in keigo.Meaning, ご使用 and ご遠慮 don't begin with ご ?
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - Hashiriya - 2013-03-16
go here: http://tangorin.com/kanji/ and click multi-radical search. It is super easy to look up kanji from photos that way. Go here to look up vocab the same way: http://tangorin.com/general/
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - undead_saif - 2013-03-16
jmignot Wrote:tagainijisho (http://www.tagaini.net)え！ これはすごいですね！ ありがとうございます＾＿＾
+ some patience …
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - Hashiriya - 2013-03-16
i don't see the point in drawing out a kanji when you can just select a few radicals and it pops up.
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - Zgarbas - 2013-03-16
Alternatively, you can just draw them up in the IME pad. Unless it's some crazy stroke order (usually it's not) it'll find it quickly =)
How to learn to read from photos of kanji - howtwosavealif3 - 2013-03-16
if for some reason you need to ask a japanese person, you can ask on chiebukuro. signing up for an acocunt is easy. you just write 何と読みますか for the question.