Kanji Blog

Lake Biwa (琵琶 湖) is the largest freshwater body in Japan. It is located in the Shiga prefecture and provides water to nearly 15 million people in Kansai.

These are the first three Japanese kanji characters that everybody learns. The kanji here represent the numbers one, two, and three.

We are going over kanji that are considered JLPT N1 level, but could be easily memorized by a beginner. We will go over kanji for women or female.

This post looks at a Japanese kanji which isn't really used much, the kanji for clan. But it sure has something to do with the Bleach anime!

Here is another JLPT N1 kanji that you will not find often, but it would be WISE to learn it as it should be easy to remember because it has limited usage.

Recently I have been thinking about how to study kanji more effectively and retain it in memory. I have been reading a book on how the brain functions.

Kanji characters are very easy to produce now with the advent of Japanese IME software. You just start typing away the hiragana and kanji appear. If all of the electricity in your area went out and you now have to write up a report as opposed typing it out, would you be able to write it out with the kanji?

In this post I want to demonstrate how kanji characters connect with how our memory works, and how each part of our memory plays a role in memorizing them.

The kanji characters for cat and draw can be easily mistakened because they look so similar. 猫 and 描. This should help you remember the difference.

誓 This I hope would be an easy kanji to remember. It is an N1 level kanji, however it should be easy to memorize regardless of your level.