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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789355803321

Titolo

A guide to reading and writing Japanese : a comprehensive guide to the Japanese writing system / / first edition compiled by Florence Sakade ; third edition revised by Kenneth Henshall, Christopher Seeley & Henk de Groot ; fourth edition revised by Janet Ikeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

North Clarendon, Vermont : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4629-1482-9

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Disciplina

495.682421

Soggetti

Japanese language - Writing

Japanese language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontcover --  Title Page --  Copyright --  CONTENTS --  INTRODUCTION --  1 Aim --  2 This Book and the Modern Japanese Writing System --  2.1 About the Characters Selected --  2.2 How Characters Are Read in Japanese --  2.3 Writing Characters --  2.4 Romanization --  2.5 Kana Signs and Combinations --  3 Layout Details --  4 Final Notes --  5 Select Bibliography of Main Works Consulted for This Edition --  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --  The 1,006 ESSENTIAL CHARACTERS --  Grade One: Characters 1-80 --  Grade Two: Characters 81-240 --  Grade Three: Characters 241-440 --  Grade Four: Characters 441-640 -- Grade Five: Characters 641-825 --  Grade Six: Characters 826-1,006 --  Section 2: The 2,136 General-Use Characters --  Radical Index --  Index of Readings --  Other Ebooks --  Backcover.