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Preface: Falling in Love With Kanji 9

This document is a table of contents for a book about learning Kanji characters. It lists 90 sections organized across 7 chapters. The sections provide information on drawing and pronouncing Kanji, their meanings and compounds, their relationships to Chinese characters, and tips for studying Kanji. The document gives an overview of the wide range of topics related to Kanji that are covered in the book.

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Preface: Falling in Love With Kanji 9

This document is a table of contents for a book about learning Kanji characters. It lists 90 sections organized across 7 chapters. The sections provide information on drawing and pronouncing Kanji, their meanings and compounds, their relationships to Chinese characters, and tips for studying Kanji. The document gives an overview of the wide range of topics related to Kanji that are covered in the book.

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Preface: Falling in Love with Kanji


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THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Words Youve Heard 14 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Place Names of Note 15 SPECTACULAR SHAPES: Busy Bodies / Real Lookers 15 GAME: What Do You Get? 16 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Words of Import / Tongue Twister / Warning! Kanji Essential to Health! 17 # 6 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Whats in That Udon?! 18 # 7 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Bloopers 19 # 8 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Atari and Other Brand Names 20

Introduction: What Are All Those Squiggles?


#9 # 10 # 11 # 12 # 13 # 14 # 15 # 16 # 17 JUST THE FACTS: Drawing 101 24 JUST THE FACTS: Stroke Order 25 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji As One of Several Scripts 26 JUST THE FACTS: What Else Kanji Can Be 27 JUST THE FACTS: How Many Kanji Does It Take? 28 JUST THE FACTS: Pictograms and Ideograms 29 JUST THE FACTS: One Kanji or Two? 30 JUST THE FACTS: The Japanese Syllables 31 JUST THE FACTS: How to Pronounce Japanese Words 34

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Chapter 1: Kanji in All Their Glorious Variability


# 18 JUST THE FACTS: Okurigana 39 # 19 GAME: Kun or On? 42 # 20 JUST THE FACTS: The Empty Sky and Other Variable Meanings / 43 GAME: One Kanji, So Many Yomi # 21 JUST THE FACTS: Shape Shifters 46 # 22 JUST THE FACTS: Kana from Kanji 48

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Chapter 2: The Architecture of a Character
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THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Kanji of a Feather Flock Together 53 JUST THE FACTS: A Radical Concept / GAME: Radicals 54 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: The Hill and the Village 56 JUST THE FACTS: The On-Echo 57 JUST THE FACTS: Easily Confused Kanji 61 GAME: Which Is Which? 64 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Strategies for Conquering Look-Alikes 65 JUST THE FACTS: Classication of Characters 68 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Elegant Etymology 70 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Charmingly Illogical Characters 72 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Just Add Water 74 GAME: The Missing Link 75 GAME: Create a Kanji 76

Chapter 3: Compounding the Pleasure


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JUST THE FACTS: Doesnt Sound the Way Its Spelled 80 COMPOUND INTEREST: Cool Compounds 84 COMPOUND INTEREST: Crazy Compounds 85 JUST THE FACTS: Combinational Exceptions 86 JUST THE FACTS: Wago, Kango, and Kokugo 88 JUST THE FACTS: Multiple Readings of Certain Compounds 90 JUST THE FACTS: Helping Hands 92 JUST THE FACTS: How Kanji Modify Each Other in Compounds 96 GAME: Will the Real Compound Please Stand Up? 98 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Homonyms and Near Homonyms / GAME: Homonym Match-Up 100 # 46 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Syllabic Similarity 103 # 47 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Look-Alikes in Compounds 106 # 48 COMPOUND INTEREST: Wonderful Words 107

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Chapter 4: What Kanji Say About Japan
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SPECTACULAR SHAPES: Gates, Birds, and Thread 111 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Metals 114 GAME: Whats the Meaning of This?! 116 JUST THE FACTS: Country Kanji / GAME: International Intrigue 117 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: You Can Say That Again! 120 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Double Meanings 122 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Hyperbolic Humility 127 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Shades of Meaning 130

Chapter 5: Japanese Feelings About Kanji


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JUST THE FACTS: Typefaces 138 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji Ablaze 140 GAME: Weekday Sdoku 141 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji Meditation 142 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Calligraphy and Clarity of Mind 143 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: The Way of Culture and the Arts 144 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji Sound Effects in Manga 147 SPECTACULAR SHAPES: Kanji Sandwiches 148 GAME: Kanji Word Find 149 JUST THE FACTS: Genkyshi 150 JUST THE FACTS: Dont Use These Kanji! 152 JUST THE FACTS: Typing Kanji 153

Chapter 6: Double Happiness


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JUST THE FACTS: Mind the Gap 161 JUST THE FACTS: A Crash Course in Chinese Terminology 162 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Chinese Words Youve Heard 164 JUST THE FACTS: The Tones of Hanzi 166 GAME: On-Yomi Tongue Twister 168 JUST THE FACTS: Phonetic Markers Used in Taiwan 169 JUST THE FACTS: Hanja in Korea 170

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# 76 # 77 # 78 # 79 # 80 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji Compounds That China Imported from Japan 173 JUST THE FACTS: Representing Grammar with Hanzi 174 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Animal Signs in the Zodiac 175 JUST THE FACTS: Signs for the Traveler 176 SPECTACULAR SHAPES: Double Happiness 178

Chapter 7: Ten Tips for Studying Kanji


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THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Inadvertently Appropriate Kanji 185 JUST THE FACTS: Flash Card Layout 186 JUST THE FACTS: Sample Landmark Cards 188 JUST THE FACTS: Landmark Categories 190 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Parallel Features 193 SPECTACULAR SHAPES: Swooping and Cradling Characters 194 THEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Take Care 195 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji Dictionaries 196 JUST THE FACTS: Kanji Wood 199 GAME: Kanji Crossword 200 Answer Key 203 Glossary 208 Works Cited 210

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