From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Subject: kanji of the day ?38
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:22:14 GMT

KANJI OF THE DAY # 38

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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 1895 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 8B4E (hexcode)
NELSON   = 4541
MIYAMOTO = 10-386
KUNZE    =

   OnYomi: KI
  Kunyomi: o(kiru)  -  (v.i.) to rise, to get up, (a fire) is kindled,
                       to awake, to occur
           o(kosu)  -  (v.t.) to raise, to awaken, to pick up (someone)
           oko(ru)  -  to happen; to break out, originate in

Mnemonics:  "A sitting person gets up to run"

Derivation:

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    **  ****** <-foot       ******************
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       ^
   "ground" + "foot" = "running"

Compounds:

hayaOKI  -  early rising
KIgen    -  origin
KIjuuki  -  crane, derrick
KIso     -  prosecution, indictment, accusation, litigation
KIyou    -  appointment, promotion

Use:

Made OKIte iru  - to be still up (awake).
Ano mise wa mada OKIte iru  - This shop is still open.
Gakkou ga okoru - a school is founded

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A really good KANJI-TEACHING SOFTWARE would:

- present you kanji,
- show their stroke order in animation,
- give you the prononciation over a loudspeaker,
- show you sentences to demonstrate the use,
- keep in mind which kanji you already learned to build only
  sentences with exactly thise kanjis,
- present a kanji quiz and show your score as an incentive,
- let you find kanji by radical, by number of strokes, by
  pronounciation, by NELSON's number, by ShiftJIS number,
- give you mnemonics,
- show you the historical forms of the kanjis,
- let you draw a kanji using your mouse or simply with a stylus on the screen
  and be able to identify the kanji from this
- give you compounds (especially with kanji you already know)
  and demonstrations of their use,
- help you understand written texts (click on a word, and see the
  translation, click on a kanji and get all of the above),
- show comix to demonstrate daily use of expressions,
- tell you interesting stories every now and then to keep you amused...

Any candidates?

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Kurt Stueber
e-mail: stueber@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
Tel:  +49-221-5062537
Fax:  +49-221-5062513

This is Nr. 0038
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