The Kanji Kraze

[anrakushi]

Originally Posted by MMM

As someone who has taught Japanese, as fun as it is to "bring in" those retired characters (and don't get me wrong, I love them, too) making your teacher look goofy and forcing her to explain why this character isn't in use anymore is kind of a low-blow. Yes it exists. No, she wasn't hiding it from you. But it is kind of like spelling "old" as "olde". No, it isn't "wrong", but it doesn't help things.

I believe you are talking about the hiragana here and i completely agree, also it might lead to confusion for more struggling students as well.

on a slightly different topic the use of kanji where it is no common to be written in hiragana, i tend to think if the kanji is in the 常用漢字 list then it's use should be encouraged. i've had some young Japanese tell me that i shouldn't use kanji for 未だ、彼処 etc because it is not common with younger Japanese. I guess i'm just someone that loves kanji. i just feel it is strange to have a list of kanji for use in Japanese and then not use them in some of their most common uses. I can understand not using 迚も since that is not a 常用漢字 but not those examples i gave.

[Shinji]

The Kanji for Italy? (thanks for the answare)

[anrakushi]

Originally Posted by Shinji

The Kanji for Italy? (thanks for the answare)

伊太利 - いたりー - itari-
or just 伊 - い for short.

[Shinji]

sorry... i've another question

i've seen down my nickname and i've read these kanji:
無限はないか。

what does they means? and how to pronounce these kanji?

thanks... for your help

[Nagoyankee]

Only the first two are kanji. It means infinity and it's read 'mugen'.

[Shinji]

thanks so much

[Doutas]

Kanji that I would never forget is this one:

議

The 音読み　is ぎ　and there aren't any 訓読み (I'm not sure why I prefer kanji without kunyomi, I just do) and the meaning is 'debate' or 'consultation'.

Although it has monstrous amount of strokes (20, I think) I won't forget it, because, when we had lecture on Japanese politics I was forced to write it like fifty times (our professor is　a kanji maniac and this kanji is part of almost every compound, that has something to do with Japanese parlament)　

[godwine]

For me, it will be:

誠

Yup, straight from the shinsengumi 新撰組. Pronounced as Sei (せい）. It has the meaning of loyalty and honesty behind it.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by anrakushi

I believe you are talking about the hiragana here and i completely agree, also it might lead to confusion for more struggling students as well.

on a slightly different topic the use of kanji where it is no common to be written in hiragana, i tend to think if the kanji is in the 常用漢字 list then it's use should be encouraged. i've had some young Japanese tell me that i shouldn't use kanji for 未だ、彼処 etc because it is not common with younger Japanese. I guess i'm just someone that loves kanji. i just feel it is strange to have a list of kanji for use in Japanese and then not use them in some of their most common uses. I can understand not using 迚も since that is not a 常用漢字 but not those examples i gave.

This I can agree with. Especially with relatively simple kanji, why not use them?

[anrakushi]

nice to have us agreeing MMM, haha. I'm interested in nagoyankees view on this being Japanese.