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Japanese Kanji Primer
Kanji can be thought of as the puzzle pieces that make up Japanese words. While there are some words that consist of just a single kanji, most are made up of more than one.
Similar to puzzle pieces, it would be very difficult to start a puzzle by first memorizing thousands of pieces on their own! That's why, like many others before me, I suggest learning Japanese words as a whole—the meaning, pronunciation, and the kanji—rather than trying to memorize thousands of individual kanji first.
However, for those with no previous expose to logographic symbols like kanji, I believe it can be useful to learn the most common radicals & kanji. This will prime your brain to start to decompose any new kanji you see into the individual components and will help you more quickly identify and understand the kanji you see when you start to learn vocabulary.
What is in this deck
Kanji themselves are made up of components, often called 'radicals' in English, and many of these are very common. If kanji are puzzle pieces that make up Japanese words, you can think of the components like the tabs and sockets that make up those pieces. When you're trying to recognize a puzzle piece, you need to memorize every single complicated detail, you simply look at the unique components of the shape.
This deck contains just over 100 of the most common of these puzzle pieces.
The custom card type uses a multiple-choice selection system:
The goal of these decks is not to learn the complete set of meanings of each radical or kanji, but just to familiarize yourself with the most common ones.
My recommendation, once you've completed these very small decks, is to move on to a vocab starter deck, rather than trying to memorize more kanji.
How to use
Download the deck:
Import them into Anki (I recommend using Import any deck presets unless you're comfortable setting your own Anki preset settings).
Once you've gotten to the point where all of the cards have an interval greater than 90 days, you're probably ready to move on to learning vocabulary.