8 articles tagged with "Kanji"
The ROI of Your First 100 Characters The JLPT N5 expects roughly 100 kanji. That sounds like a small number against the 2,136character joyo standard. It is not. Corpus data shows these characters p...
A Classification Technology, Not a Learning Aid The 214 Kangxi radicals are an indexing system. Codified in the Kangxi Dictionary of 1716 to organize 47,035 characters, they solved a hard problem: ...
Not One Chinese Four Most guides explain on'yomi as "the Chinese reading" and kun'yomi as "the Japanese reading." That framing is not wrong, but it obscures the real structure. On'yomi is not a si...
Kanji Is an Information Technology The character ้ฌฑ/kanjis/9b31 depression encodes in one glyph what English spells out in ten letters and 29 strokes. That is not calligraphic trivia. It is an engin...
Kanji as a Compression Algorithm The CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode encodes 97,680 characters. The KanjiJump decomposition project reduces the 3,500 most important Japanese kanji to just 2...
The Oldest Classification System for Any Writing System and Why It's Wrong In 100 CE, the Han dynasty scholar Xu Shen ่จฑๆ completed the Shuowen Jiezi ่ชฌๆ่งฃๅญ, analyzing 9,353 characters under a sixcat...
An Indexing Algorithm That Has Survived 310 Years In 100 CE, Xu Shen faced an indexing problem: how to organize 9,353 logographic characters for retrieval with no alphabetical order. His Shuowen Ji...
3,200 Years of Continuous Deployment The kanji you study today descend from inscriptions carved into turtle shells during the late Shang dynasty. That lineage from Anyang divination pits to the po...
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