I was going through my books from when I was tutoring someone in Japanese several years ago (for Az) and came upon this kanji book which lists 1,850 essential kanji characters. I can't scan the pages as the book is getting pretty old and I would really like to prevent damaging it, but I will provide the information to you guys in sets of 20.
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Kanji // ON-YOMI (Chinese reading) // kun-yomi (native Japanese reading) // English meaning
Note: Syllables in parentheses must be written in hiragana and are not included in the kanji.
Note 2: Syllables in [] are alternate readings for the kun-yomi.
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1 - 20
一
ICHI // hito(tsu) // one
ニ
NI // futa(tsu) // two
三
SAN // mi, mit(tsu) // three
四
SHI // yon, yo, yot(tsu) // four
五
GO // itsu(tsu) // five
六
ROKU // mut(tsu) // six
七
SHICHI // nana(tsu) // seven
八
HACHI // yat(tsu) // eight
九
KU, KYUU // kokono(tsu) // nine
十
JUU // too // ten
日
NICHI, JITSU // hi [bi] // day, sun
Note: ~ka, suffix for counting days (一日、二日、etc.)
月
GETSU, GATSU // tsuki [zuki] // month, moon
Note: suffix for counting months (一月、二月、etc.)
火
KA // hi [bi] // fire
水
SUI // mizu // water
木
MOKU, BOKU // ki [gi] // tree, wood
金
KIN, KON // kane // gold, money
土
DO, TO // tsuchi // earth, soil
左
SA // hidari // left
右
YUU, U // migi // right
上
JOU
ue // top, above, on
kami // upper
nobo(ru) // to go up, to go toward (northern)
a(geru) // to raise
a(garu) // to rise
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Posted 05-14-201103:31 PM
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