For example, if I see a kanji I don't understand and want to look it up, how would I know where to go in the book?
2006-10-21 05:28:01 · 2 answers · asked by zxqamf 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Kanji consists of some basic kanjis or ideograms. So rather complicated kanji can be broken down to the upper part and the lower part, or the left part and the right part, or more than two parts. Kanjis in a dictionary called kanji-hiragana dic are organized by basic ideogram. In a basic ideogram section, kanjis are ordered by the number of their strokes.
How can you find a kanji that cannot be broken down or you can't break down because of ignorance of basic ideograms? You can find it by just the number of its strokes. All kanjis are also ordered by the number of their strokes in the pages of the end of a dictionary.
2006-10-22 15:00:23 · answer #1 · answered by Black Dog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them organize by stroke order, I believe. There is a certain way each kanji is written, and by counting the number you can look it up. Process of elimination and knowing the radicals to help with figuring how the pronounciation works along with this.
2006-10-21 12:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by Belie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋