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On/Kun Reading.... - faturita - 2007-03-28
I would like to ask you how I can see in the study area, what is the meaning of the kanji in japanese ? I mean how to read it ?
On/Kun Reading.... - elktapestry - 2007-03-28
Some Kanji have several readings depending on when and where they are used. Although I agree with Hesig that the method of learning a basic english meaning of Kanji is good before you start tackling tougher things like readings and compounds... still... I can't help but peek and look at things like that in a general sense to inform me of it.
So yeah, you could do what I do. Since all the Kanji in the study section is plain text simply enlarged... just copy and paste the Kanji into the lookup on this site (there are others out there but this is the site I like to use):http://www.mahou.org/Kanji/
Once you've pasted the Kanji in, hit the lookup button and it will give you the Kanji below.. click on it and it will go to a page with readings and all sorts of info on the Kanji. Note that On-yomi is written in カタカナ and Kun-yomi is written in ひらがな as they usually are.
On/Kun Reading.... - JimmySeal - 2007-03-28
@OP
The study area does not provide that information. There is no way to see it.
On/Kun Reading.... - chamcham - 2007-03-28
use rikaichan
http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/
On/Kun Reading.... - elktapestry - 2007-03-28
Jimmy, there's no way to see it? Umm... I just told him... copy paste the kanji from the study section into Mahou.org's Kanji lookup system and viola!
Also, Although Rikaichan is something good to use for reading Kanji on the fly, it doesn't give all the possible readings of a Kanji or examples of other instances where the Kanji might be used or recombined. That site I mentioned though (mahou.org/kanji/) does give several readings... original chinese readings... breakdowns into radicals... sample sentences... compounds.. stroke order... etc..
For me, it's been a perfect complement to using the study section of this site and I often have them both open at the same time.
Note: not discouraging use of Rikaichan, definately get it... just... for more detailed info... http://www.mahou.org/Kanji/ is another good option.
On/Kun Reading.... - jreaves - 2007-03-28
Thanks for the resource. Be careful with the sentence pairs, which mostly come from the "Tanaka corpus". Tanaka was a professor in Japan who had his students submit Japanese-English sentence pairs as part of a class project. They transcribed the sentences from a variety of sources, such as their English textbooks and song lyrics. There are apparently quite a few errors, and if you're not already somewhat skilled in Japanese, you might not catch them. More information on the Tanaka corpus can be found at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/tanakacorpus.html.
On/Kun Reading.... - JimmySeal - 2007-03-28
elktapestry Wrote:Jimmy, there's no way to see it? Umm... I just told him... copy paste the kanji from the study section into Mahou.org's Kanji lookup system and viola!That's not quite a way to see the readings of the kanji
Quote:in the study areais it? I am sure that OP already knows how to look up kanji outside this site.
On/Kun Reading.... - chamcham - 2007-03-28
elktapestry Wrote:Also, Although Rikaichan is something good to use for reading Kanji on the fly, it doesn't give all the possible readings of a KanjiWhere did you find out that rikaichan doesn't give all the possible readings?
Maybe Popjisyo might work better for you.
I looked at mahou.org
Seems pretty nice.
Maybe someone should make a Firefox plugin for mahou like they did with rikaichan.
On/Kun Reading.... - elktapestry - 2007-03-28
From my experience of using Rikaichan (and yeah, I use Rikaichan.. I use it everyday and it's a very useful plugin indeed!) to mouse over kanji... in some cases it seems to present a pretty comprehensive info popup for the kanji (usually it seems with the more obsure kanji.. or ones that are only used in compounds and can't "stand alone")... but in many more cases it seems to just give the common reading(s) and translation(s) of the Kanij... also, for really getting down and studying that much info on Kanji, I'd rather have a static page infront of me than a hovering mouse-over triggered window, personally.
Also,Jimmy... It wasn't the content of the first sentence...
"The study area does not provide that information."
...that I was commenting on... that's true enough... it was the second...
"There is no way to see it."
...that I was commenting on.... actually if you would have phrased it...
"There is no way to see it on that page/this site."
or said...
"You'll have to go outside the site to see it."
...then it would ring more true... but meh... I'm just spliting hairs I suppose...
...then again, as commented... Mousing over w/ Rikaichan does bring up "that information" so technically, from that page in "the study area" there IS a way to see it.. or at least the basics of it.
On/Kun Reading.... - faturita - 2007-03-29
Thank you a lot to all of you.. This is quite good info !!!