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Me? Oh.. you mean generally, well you can't, without tons of experience, and that's why 'furiganizer.com' exists.. but that's like a last resort for complex kanji. You simply use a dictionary, esp online ones which tend to get better with time. Some good ones are:
bab.la
jisho.org
kamus.com
.. and a lot more, but generally you need knowledge and experience; most kanji have a tendency to be read one way if they are in the beginning of a word and another way if they are at the end (prefix and suffix). There are also times when a kanji has servral readings depending on situation.
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What is the difference between Kana and Kanji with how you use it in Japanese?
Kana is a name for the phonetic symbols in Japanese, while Kanji is like words. Without Kana, you won't be able to read a thing, while without Kanji, you can actually read some parts of a text.
What does koyoi mean?
It means tonight, this evening.今宵 (koyoi) consists of 今 : kanji for now, present. Read as 'ima' when alone, acts not unlike the to in today, tonight and 宵 : kanji for night also read 'yoru'.
What do various Japanese tattoos symbolize?
Usually the tattoos you see are a character called a "kanji". They can be read many ways depending on which kanji follows which, and so on. It's very hard to take a kanji and translate it because you need to actually know Japanese to have a recognition software properly process the kanji.
How do you say traitor in Japanese?
Uragirimono (lit. "backstabber", or "betrayal person", depending on how you read the Kanji).
How do you say jazmin in Japanese?
Jasmine in Japanese (Romaji) is yasumin, in Kanji is read matsurika.
What does Japanese words kanji yomeru no means?
kanji yomeru no = Can [you] read kanji?' It should be Anata wa kanji o yomu koto ga dekimasu? (あなたは漢字を読むことができます?)
Is 愛 Japanese?
Yes. 愛 is the Japanese Kanji for love. It is read "ai." The same pronunciation as "I" or "eye."
What order do you learn kanji?
You can start from the Japanese 1st grade level, then to the 2nd grade level, and work yourself upward that way. Search Google for "Japanese 1st grade kanji" or something similar. If you learn some basic kanji characters, you will be able to read basic Japanese text, and from there, you can look up unfamiliar kanji in a Japanese dictionary like jisho.org. However, there is no "order" to learning kanji, and you can learn in whatever order you please.
Where can one purchase a Kanji dictionary?
One can purchase a Kanji dictionary online in the following web stores: eBay and Amazon. One can also read the user reviews about these dictionaries to find the most accurate dictionary.
How many Chinese words are in the Japanese language?
It is said that some 50,000 kanji (Chinese characters) exist. However, many kanji are not necessarily used in daily life. The Japanese Ministry of Education designated 2,136 characters as Jooyoo Kanji, which are the most frequently used characters. It would be very helpful to learn all Jooyoo Kanji, but the basic 1,000 characters are sufficient to read about 90% of the kanji used in a newspaper (about 60% with 500 characters).
What is the etymology of the word ninja?
In Japanese, the Kanji alphabet uses mostly Chinese characters that represent ideas instead of sounds. Therefore, each kanji character can be read phonetically either in Japanese or Chinese. The word 'ninja' comes from the Chinese characters 'nin' and 'sha' (which basically mean 'stealth' and 'person'). Those same characters, in Japanese kanji, are read as 'shinobi no mono'. So the Japanese word for 'ninja' is 'shinobi'.
How much kanji do you need?
1700 / 2000 is the average if you want to read almost everything at the street, and the newspaper *for the newspaper is better 2000...
