Essential Kanji: 2,000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged For Learning And Reference

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Este libro es una excelente pieza para el estudio del kanji. Incluye las diferentes pronunciaciones Onyomi, Kunyomi, ejemplos. Pero más importante, un índice único de cada uno de estos kanji a partir del número de trazos que requieren.

Very compact and useful. Not just a dictionary: can be carried anywhere, and study kanji with it. The result is a far more efficient way to learn kanji, as, due to it's small size, can be used to study while on the train, bus, bathroom...anywhere.Very recommended.

I bought this book for the first time when I was 19 yrs old, an art student, obsessed by everything Edo period Japanese and at the time of two Great Japan exhibitions in London. Roll on to 58yrs old and with a much softened obsession I realised I’d given away my copy years ago. I had to get another for research and what was once easy to buy had suddenly become hard to find. This book really is essential for classic, formal brush drawn Kanji and indispensable if that’s what you need to research.

It's a very handy reference book. Don't mistake it for a standard dictionary though. I use the more of a means to ensure I'm using the correct reading of a kanji then I'll go online to read more in-depth if necessary. It can seem really confusing if you're still very early in Japanese studies, I bought it about 3 weeks after I began and thought I'd wasted my money. However after about 6-7 weeks I pick this book up everyday now I'm (very slowly) replacing Hiragana readings with kanji.I would like if it had modern word processor prints exemplified larger than just in the example readings.

Really useless in the modern age, the text of the Kanji is prsented in a hand written font which is useless in this day and age where you will be mainly looking/interacting with kanji printed or presented in a digital font format, makes learning and recognition more difficult, the book is practically useless if your trying to learn Japanese