Can anyone give me a list of Chinese characters not in Japanese?

From: The Unique City of Liverpool Registered: 2011-06-03 Posts: 617 Website

or with vastly different meanings to Japanese　please?

Last edited by HonyakuJoshua (2012 July 05, 8:22 pm)

netsplitter Member

From: Melbourne Registered: 2008-07-13 Posts: 183

I'm sure there's a list somewhere, but if I had to make such a list myself, I'd head over to the Unicode Consortium's Unihan database, download the files (look for unihan.zip in the left column), then figure out which characters don't have a mapping to a Japanese-related field (or fields) of my choosing.

I'd do it for you, but I'm at work!

Edit: And please tell us what you're planning to do with such a list.

Last edited by netsplitter (2012 July 05, 9:48 pm)

yudantaiteki Member

Registered: 2009-10-03 Posts: 3619

First you have to define what you mean by "not in Japanese".

(Although, as far as I know that list doesn't exist, and I doubt anyone will make it since it would be very time consuming, and probably not very useful.)

Last edited by yudantaiteki (2012 July 05, 10:14 pm)

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HonyakuJoshua Member

From: The Unique City of Liverpool Registered: 2011-06-03 Posts: 617 Website

ydtt: I mean not in the jis x 0208 kanji. Netsplitter: Thanks! I would learn the characters I don't know for a basis in written Chinese. I have passed a patent translation trial and it has long been my goal to learn the very basics of sanskrit,classical greek, arabic, chinese and latin as Edward Sapir states that loads of languages are influenced by their lexis and grammar. I know I would have to learn different readings for the ji I know.

Last edited by HonyakuJoshua (2012 July 05, 11:06 pm)

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