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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Stone Bridge Press (31 Oct 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0962813702
  • ISBN-13: 978-0962813702
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 20.1 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 279,042 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This guide presents 1200 Japanese characters with readings, main definitions, standard printed forms, and visual and text mnemonics to make them easier to remember.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful and fun, but not everything you need, 28 Aug 2003
By A. E. Churchill "AlexTFish" (Cambridge, England, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book is very good at what it tries to do: provide visual mnemonics to help you recognise kanji and remember their meanings. And it's very bad at the things it doesn't try to do: teach readings, compounds, or how to actually read the kanji in genuine Japanese text.

"Kanji Pict-o-graphix" is a fun book to browse when you're not feeling up to some serious study. But it's not a workbook. You can't just sit down and learn some kanji from this book, not in a way that will help you in the real world.

However, it is an excellent supplement to a more structured workbook like "Let's Learn Kanji" (ISBN: 4770020686). If you've got a proper textbook, workbook, or taught course, then "Kanji Pict-o-graphix" goes great by the side to help you associate meanings with the radicals you learn.

"Snow" is built from the symbols for "rain" and "hand": so remember "snow is rain you can hold". The kanji for "Left" and "Right" differ only in one component meaning "construct" and "mouth" respectively: so remember "work with your left hand, eat with your right". Simple mnemonics like this are a great assistant to a more formal workbook.

It is marred by a number of simple errors in the cross-referencing: printing "702" instead of "704", "100" instead of "653", and so on. This is slightly irritating, but only in the cross-references for kanji components and not a major problem, because you can easily find the correct reference yourself.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Attractive, useful supplement but largely useless., 1 April 2000
By Bozz (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
I like this book. Its good for kana, and it can help you see the way kanji are formed and their regular nature. It`s just there`s so much that could be done with this format, but just isn`t. Where oh where are the compounds (1 page!), these are what makes Kanji so difficult to remember. Learning the ENGLISH menmonmics is all very well but you won`t be able to read anything in Japanese. I would suggest using this book as a supplement for difficult Kanji you fail to remember repeatedly.... BUT so many pain in the a*s Kanji are omitted and may more obscure ones are included for artist value. There`s no hiragana in the main text, so you are limited to romanji (inaccurate and time consuming)

All in all remember, there are no nice, soft cuddly ways of learning Kanji.It isn`t fun, but its possible. Find something Japanese people use to teach there kids in a methodical, logical order.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Good fun but not useful as study tool, 17 Feb 2006
By Sren Svendsen (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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Buying and reading this book has been amusing. The covered kanjis are all illustrated wonderfully with funny, shocking and frank pictures. The layout is good and the book has some great mnemonic s for remembering kana.

But it is not a way to learn kanji, far from it. In fact, its nigh-on useless if you plan on going anywhere with kanji. The approach taken by this book is very unsystematical. You are not taught how to draw a kanji either.

For the same money you would be better off with a stack of flash cards really. This book really should be categorized as art or entertainment, since I find it of little to no use as a self-study tool. If you are serious about kanji, check out James Heisigs works instead.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Novel but no gain long term
I bought this book and found it novel and worth my time at first. But it is not a complete list, and the mnemonics are useless for teaching you how to write the kanjis. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2006 by Sren Svendsen

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Book For Beginners
This book is great for beginners to the japanese language system because the pictures clearly show a representation of the kanji it's self. Read more
Published on 7 Jul 2004 by Scott Ashman

5.0 out of 5 stars very funny, interesting, v. good for active writing skills
An extremely useful book for learning Kanji, in my opinion. I am an advanced student of Japanese and for me even though recognizing Kanji in a given text has become much easier... Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2000 by Roman Bartnik

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun but not for serious students
It is a really well presented, fun book. For a light-hearted introduction to Kanji it is great. However it can hardly be termed a scholarly work and I would recommend more serious... Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2000 by ctjb2@cam.ac.uk

3.0 out of 5 stars Clever mneomonics, lousy organization, incompleate reference
I must admit this book has the smartest mneomonics of all the kanji books I bought. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover all the standard kanji and lacks the stroke order pictures... Read more
Published on 9 Jul 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars The best kanji tutor available
this is simply the best kanji tutor available. No better way to remember kanji than with these clever mnemonics
Published on 21 Mar 1997

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