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    Thread: Stroke Order for Spinal Column Kanji?
Post: RE: Stroke Order for Spinal Column Kanji?

(2016-04-11, 7:03 am)GuyInALabCoat Wrote: So if anyone can offer any advice to clear up this conflicting information, I would greatly appreciate it. Heisig has published corrections for RTK on the ...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 6 694 2016-04-11, 4:51 pm
    Thread: RTK iphone app
Post: RE: RTK iphone app

I ran into this issue as well; it's probably showing you 5th edition frame numbers. The app uses the old edition by default, so try switching to the 6th edition in the settings.
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 1 550 2016-04-07, 12:14 am
    Thread: RTK 1 6th Ed. Anki Deck Problems
Post: RE: RTK 1 6th Ed. Anki Deck Problems

(2016-04-05, 4:34 pm)olliemilne Wrote: I realise that's a long and overly complicated backstory, but does anyone know of any Anki decks that have all the kanji from RTK1 6th edition, in the correct ...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 9 758 2016-04-05, 8:29 pm
    Thread: Looking for latest RTK lite list or alternative!
Post: RE: Looking for latest RTK lite list or alternativ...

I have an RTK Lite spreadsheet based on nukemarine's idea of learning by Kanji Odyssey 2001 group. Here's the text file with tab separated values. It should open in any text editor (has UTF-8 encodin...
fkb9g The Japanese language 5 1,938 2016-04-02, 9:59 am
    Thread: Some doubts regarding RTK1
Post: RE: Some doubts regarding RTK1

(2016-04-01, 8:28 pm)Dovetron Wrote: I tried RTK twice and failed around 600 like you may be doing, and the third time I did the above and it worked wonders all the way through RTK3. I also failed ...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 15 1,289 2016-04-02, 9:50 am
    Thread: Kanji in different fonts
Post: RE: Kanji in different fonts

The best way to make sure Anki displays Han characters with Japanese glyphs is to fix the template for your cards. Specify the HTML "lang" attribute for the text as "ja". There's no need to change yo...
fkb9g The Japanese language 4 555 2016-04-01, 10:51 pm
    Thread: App for NHK Easy News with links to original articles
Post: RE: App for NHK Easy News with links to original a...

NHK Easy Japanese News is a great resource. I did not know about the app. It looks like it is Android only. Maybe you should contact the app developers and request this feature?
fkb9g Learning resources 5 660 2016-03-30, 10:43 am
    Thread: Extending RTK 1 methods to vocabulary acquisition
Post: Extending RTK 1 methods to vocabulary acquisition

I'm a beginner at Japanese. When learning other languages, vocabulary acquisition has been my biggest obstacle. I think I have some good ideas for maximizing vocabulary gains at the stage immediately ...
fkb9g General discussion 1 436 2016-03-27, 12:51 pm
    Thread: RTK Volume 1 and 2 available on Apple iBooks store
Post: RE: RTK Volume 1 and 2 available on Apple iBooks s...

I purchased RtK 2 iBooks edition in Feb 2016. Here are some errors and inconsistencies I've noted so far: frame R-1626 marked as R-11626 frame R-351 安心 called "piece of heart" (compare with frame R-...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 2 887 2016-03-25, 11:53 pm
    Thread: List of extra kanji (RTK4)
Post: RE: List of extra kanji (RTK4)

Thank you to thecite for compiling this information and to others who have added to it. I did notice that 嗅 is already in RTK 1 (6th edition) as frame 129 (key word: sniff). Perhaps 嗅 wasn't in the e...
fkb9g General discussion 30 13,916 2016-03-21, 2:30 pm
    Thread: List of extra kanji (RTK4)
Post: RE: List of extra kanji (RTK4)

(2016-03-20, 6:48 pm)KameDemaK Wrote: Leaving aside that spreadsheets are sometimes a pain to print because of the page boundaries, I would rather study the Kanjis one by one in a format similar to ...
fkb9g General discussion 30 13,916 2016-03-21, 2:19 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

It's not necessary to specify a font explicitly. You can just specify serif, and the browser will display an appropriate Mincho-style font. If you specify sans-serif, you'll see an appropriate Gothic-...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-03-19, 5:20 pm
    Thread: New to learning kanji, suggest Anki kanji decks
Post: RE: New to learning kanji, suggest Anki kanji deck...

Here's my new Anki shared deck for RTK writing frames 1–3000. There are no Heisig or RevTK stories included (but you can add your own). This deck has a rtk_lite_group field so you can study by RTK li...
fkb9g General discussion 5 769 2016-03-19, 1:52 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-03-15, 3:42 pm)jmignot Wrote: Thank you for these explanations. The table in the blog is quite clear. However, I still have a problem with the way  kanji are displayed in the koohii site. Fo...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-03-15, 11:50 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-03-13, 3:29 am)jmignot Wrote: Coming back to the practical use of the RevTK site, what could be a reasonable approach for a user to i) pick up a consistent set of writings (official or not) w...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-03-13, 2:37 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-03-10, 4:48 pm)jmignot Wrote: Does Heisig always use the shinjitai version (or an "unofficial" one), or does he sometimes use the kyūjitai? In the cases where a kyūjitai character is used, th...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-03-12, 9:03 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-15, 1:00 pm)rodent Wrote: I don't even know how to print the one without the short final stroke. Is there a way to type the other version? If you are using an OpenType font with alternate ...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-03-06, 1:27 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-16, 10:59 am)yudantaiteki Wrote: Unfortunately I don't think it's this simple because some of the shinjitai forms aren't in actual use. The difference between the 嗅 (for instance) isn't a b...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-02-16, 11:47 am
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-15, 10:19 pm)rodent Wrote: I don't plan to learn all the kyujitai variants. If the shinjitai is official, then I'll probably just learn that form. The fact that there are only seven that yo...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-02-15, 10:37 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-15, 10:08 pm)rodent Wrote: Would you point me to a site where you found this? I tried looking for "Unicode Ideographic Variation Database", and found this: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PD...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-02-15, 10:16 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-15, 1:00 pm)rodent Wrote: Keep in mind that this thread should not merely be about that one character. I was raising the more general issue of Joyo variants. I've created a tab separated t...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-02-15, 10:12 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

If you have a Macintosh computer, the Character viewer (built in to OS X) is a handy way to look up characters related to a kanji. [Image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2543...viewer.png]
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-02-15, 9:33 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

(2016-02-15, 1:00 pm)rodent Wrote: As another example, Kanji Koohii has the kanji 嗅, with keyword "sniff". In Koohii, there is the short stroke that makes the "St. Bernard dog" into a "chihuahua". I...
fkb9g Remembering the Kanji 41 4,188 2016-02-15, 9:24 pm
    Thread: Anki deck: ko2001 vocab
Post: Anki deck: ko2001 vocab

To more easily practice the ko2001 vocab set, I've converted it to an Anki deck. There are 10230 distinct words. For each word, I've included frame numbers for the RTK and Kanji Odyssey kanji (courte...
fkb9g Learning resources 0 392 2016-02-10, 1:02 am
    Thread: Kanji lists, Joyo, non-joyo etc. (Sticky topic)
Post: RE: Kanji lists, Joyo, non-joyo etc. (Sticky topic...

(2010-11-24, 6:52 am)danaduck Wrote: ko1 extra primitives (only using data from rtk1): 吾 呂 旦 舌 升 丸 寸 占 貝 頁 句 勺 首 乙 刀 刃 貫 肖 泉 炎 里 朱 犬 介 王 玉 軍 周 士 吉 是 衣 匕 比 皆 旨 曽 虫 己 亀 羊 羽 固 忍 志 我 戒 刑 史 吏 又 爪 至 谷 皮 夫...
fkb9g The Japanese language 45 95,917 2016-02-08, 10:17 am
    Thread: Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication.
Post: RE: Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Commu...

(2014-10-17, 8:48 am)RawToast Wrote: The idea with the deck is that you aren't pushed into memorising the production of "食べ物はありません", but should be creating similar sentences with the pattern. Would ...
fkb9g Group study 60 51,876 2015-12-23, 11:29 pm
    Thread: Kanji lists, Joyo, non-joyo etc. (Sticky topic)
Post: RE: Kanji lists, Joyo, non-joyo etc. (Sticky topic...

(2012-07-12, 3:03 am)kazeatari Wrote: It doesn't seem this has been posted, so here is the official jouyou kanji list, with example words selected by Monbushou and notes. Those with ⇔ are particular...
fkb9g The Japanese language 45 95,917 2015-12-18, 3:56 pm