Florence Sakade - Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese: , JLPT All Levels (2,136 Japanese Kanji Characters)

About the authors Florence Sakade was a renowned editor and author of numerous books about Japans language and culture, including Origami: Japanese Paper Folding and Japanese Childrens Favorite Stories . Janet Ikeda is Associate Professor of Japanese at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. She served as president of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese, and is currently on the Board of the AATJ. Ikeda is also a member of the U.S.-Japan Council and served on the Japanese American Leadership Delegation (JALD). ABOUT TUTTLE Books to Span the East and West Our core mission at Tuttle Publishing is to create books which bring people together one page at a time. Tuttle was founded in 1832 in the small New England town of Rutland, Vermont (USA).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Professor Janet Ikeda for her careful review of the previous editions text, and her updates and improvements to allow this book to continue as a core reference for todays learners.

The editors of this revised edition respectfully acknowledge the work of the earlier editions carried out by Florence Sakade and her editorial team, work which has been of assistance to generations of students. Grateful acknowledgment is also due to Calvert Barksdale, Nancy Goh, Tan Cheng Har, Flavia Hodges, Tan Mike Tze, Nathan Burrows, Neil Chandler, Bruce Penno, Paul Eagle, Shozo Tsuji, Yasuko Tsuji, and Kazuko Seeley.

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ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS ICHI, ITSU, hito- , hito(tsu) , one ichigatsu , January ichiban , first, best issatsu , one (book, magazine) NI, futa(tsu) , two nigatsu , February nikagetsu , two months nikai , twice SAN, mi- , mit(tsu) , three sangatsu , March sannin , three people mikka , three days, the third day SHI, yon , yo- , yot(tsu) , yo(tsu) , four shigatsu , April yokka , four days, the fourth day shij , yonj , forty = AP # = JLPT GO, itsu(tsu) , five gogatsu , May gonin , five people goj , fifty ROKU, mut(tsu) , mu(tsu) , six rokugatsu , June rokkagetsu , six months rokuj , sixty SHICHI, nana(tsu) , nana , seven shichigatsu , July nanakagetsu , seven months shichij , nanaj , seventy HACHI, yat(tsu) , ya(tsu) , eight hachigatsu , August hachikagetsu , eight months hachij , eighty KY, KU, kokono(tsu) , nine kugatsu , September kuj , kyj , ninety kuji , nine oclock J, t , ten jgatsu , October tka , ten days, the tenth day jikkai , ten times HYAKU, hundred nihyaku , two hundred sanbyaku , three hundred hyakkaten , department store SEN, chi , thousand senen , a thousand yen sanzen , three thousand gosen , five thousand NICHI, JITSU; hi , day, sun; ~ka , suffix for counting days nichiybi , Sunday sakujitsu , kin , yesterday asahi , morning sun GETSU, GATSU; tsuki , month, moon getsuybi , Monday raigetsu , next month mikazuki , new moon KA; hi , fire kaybi, Tuesday hibachi , charcoal brazier kaji , fire, conflagration SUI; mizu , water -mizu , flood, inundation suiryoku , water power suihei , sailor BOKU, MOKU; ki , tree, wood mokuybi , Thursday zaimoku , lumber mokusei , made of wood KIN, KON, gold; kane , money kinybi , Friday o-kane , money kingyo , goldfish DO, TO; tsuchi , earth, soil doybi , Saturday tochi , ground, plot of land dojin , native NEN; toshi , year rokunensei , sixth-grade pupil toshiyori , old person seinen , youth SA; hidari , left saha , leftist (political), left wing sasoku , hidarigawa , left side hidarite , left hand U, Y; migi , right say , left and right uha , right wing (political) usoku , migigawa , right side J; ue , top, above, on; kami , upper; nobo(ru) , to go up, to go toward Tky; a(geru) , to raise; a(garu) , to rise jry , upstream, upper class kaij , on the sea, maritime kawakami , upstream