Remembering the Kanji II
Subtitle: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters
Publisher: Japan Publications Trading
Published: October 15, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780870407482
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Japanese Language; Foreign Language Study; Reference; Japanese; Language; General; Foreign Language Study / Japanese
First sentence: The two Japanese syllabaries known as hiragana and katakana (or collectively, as the kana) originated as stylized versions of Chinese characters used to represent the sounds of Japanese without any reference to the original meaning of those characters.