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ONLINE RESOURCES
The kanji words and kanji characters detailed in The Kanji Code were either based on my own knowledge, or looked up and confirmed from multiple dictionaries and online resources. My English translations were checked for accuracy by native Japanese proofreaders. Words and kanji meanings were not taken in any bulk form from any of the following resources, however these resources were referred to during the checking process.
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Yamasa Online Kanji Dictionary, The Yamasa Institute www.yamasa.org 字源 Jigen [Kanji Origins] https://jigen.net/kanji/20094
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41 phonetics were derived from a list of kanji containing identical phonetic components that appeared in a dissertation by Hiroko Townshend (2011).
過
KA
乍
SAKU
相
SOU
半
HAN
我
GA
次
SHI
燥
SOU
漠
BAKU
牙
GA
伸
SHIN
槽
SOU
皮
HI
各
KAKU
辰
SHIN
則
SOKU
必 HI
肌 KI
借
SHAKU
弟
DAI
福
FUKU
其
KI
殊
SHU
診
CHIN
壁
HEKI
義
GI
旬
JUN
中
CHUU
扁
HEN
圭
KEI
招
SHOU
長
CHOU
包
HOU
径
KEI
成
SEI
通
TSUU
逢
HOU
采
SAI
青
SEI
版
HAN
密
MITSU
才
SAI
All other phonetics were identified by the author. All visual groups, their descriptions and images are the original work of the author.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
As a non-native speaker of Japanese, I have needed assistance from a number of Japanese people. I am grateful to Hideaki Maruoka for checking my translations of hundreds of example words and kanji; and to Hiroko Uchihara for checking the kana-related words and kanji. They both provided invaluable native-speaker insights. I wish to thank Hiroko Townshend for generously sharing the phonetic components that she identified, and Noriko Williams for kindly giving permission to reference her kanji portraits in the creative component stories. I am grateful to Carly Tenille Slater for her thorough proofreading which noticeably improved the manuscript.
I received invaluable advice from friends and family on the visual groups and the component names. Thank you Pat Jameson, Magdalena Ndong Nzue, Rani Ramjan and Hamish Clarke. Thank you to my dissertation supervisor Dr Peter Roger for his advice and suggestions; and to my sub-supervisor Dr Izumi Inoue who not only provided invaluable assistance during the project, but also encouraged me to publish a textbook.
Thank you to the staff and students of Nakatsu Minami High School and Yabakei High School in Oita Prefecture in Japan. Their dedication to their studies inspired me to persist with Japanese when I was struggling, and their greetings and handwritten notes cheered me up when I was homesick.
The staff provided a lot of assistance in my daily life and encouraged my kanji study, in particular Yoshiko Norimatsu, Yoshiko Kondo and Kaori Watanabe. Thank you to fellow JET Programme participants: Cynthia Hawkins for being my kanji buddy and for helping to compile the first digital list of ON readings; Lee Sean Huang and Jessica Browning for hosting study sessions; Sarah Dzida for providing invaluable feedback and proofreading of the dissertation, and much practical advice during the publication phase.
I am grateful to Virginia Buckingham for applying her talent to the design of the book and cover. Thank you Pinyo Fordham for creating graceful visual group images; Chantal Smith for her wonderful kana and phonetic images.
I am grateful to my parents Helen Cumming and Lachlan Cumming, who have always encouraged me to follow my dreams. My mother also provided invaluable advice on the publishing process, something that as an Editor she has much experience in. I am grateful to my grandmother Leila Cumming, a lifelong learner who finished her PhD at the age of 70, for inspiring my interest in foreign languages. Special thanks go to Ian Hamilton for keeping me healthy and happy, and for lending his proofreading expertise at various stages of the manuscript. And final y thank you Daniel for inspiring the step ladder component name and for putting up with ‘kanji, kanji, kanji’.
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GLOSSARY
creative component
A phonetic component that does not have an obvious meaning, so the author has invented one.
cognitive style
An individual’s preferred and habitual modes of perceiving, remembering, organising, processing and representing information.
form-sound character keisei moji
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br /> Characters made up of a radical and a phonetic. The radical indicates the meaning or meaning category of the character. The phonetic indicates a likely ON reading and may also contribute to the meaning.
hiragana
Phonetic script used for words of Japanese origin and conjunctions, word endings and particles.
Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Exam used to measure Japanese language proficiency.
Joyo Kanji
The 2,136 daily-use kanji characters official y listed by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology that Japanese students are expected to learn by the end of high school.
kanji
Logographic characters original y imported from China, used in Japanese written language to represent words.
kanji compound
Two or more kanji characters put together to make a word. Also referred to as a kanji word.
katakana
Phonetic script used for loan words, onomatopoeia and as a hint to kanji readings.
kun reading kun yomi
One of two types of pronunciation that can be applied to a kanji character; a word which originated in Japanese and was later applied to an imported kanji character.
learning style
An individual’s natural and preferred method for absorbing and retaining new information and skil s.
object visualiser (OV)
A sub-category of the visualiser cognitive style; OVs habitual y use visual properties (e.g. colour and shape) to construct high-resolution objects and scenes.
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ON reading on yomi
One of two types of pronunciation that can be applied to a kanji character; a Japanese adaptation of the original Chinese reading.
phonetic component onpu
A component that indicates a kanji character’s likely ON reading.
phonological activation
The mental process of recognition of the sound represented by a character or word, whether verbal y or mental y.
phonological memory (PM)
A sub-component of working memory concerned with recall of sounds. Also known as Phonological Loop.
power phonetic
A phonetic component that appears in five or more kanji characters.
radical bushu
The part of a kanji that indicates the meaning or meaning category; also known as a semantic or meaning component.
spatial visualiser (SV)