Kanji Kanban #146
お父さん、 眠れてる
疲れているのに、２週間以上眠れない日が続いている
食欲がなく、体重が減っている。。。
もしかしたら、うつかも。。。。
Use the rikaichan popup dictionary or your favorite reference tool with my transcription below the photo if you need help reading the characters on this poster alerting people to symptoms of depression, うつ病. I saw it at a Kyoto hospital last week. Click on the photo to enlarge it and see the characters more clearly.
The numbers below refer to the kanji I’ve transcribed below the photo, and correspond to their order of appearance in both Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji and Kanji in Context.
To learn more about how to work with this information and get the most out of my daily Kanji Kanban series, please read this.
Heisig(H1274, H1835, H1688, H318, H1620, H1028, H49, H1835, H12, H1345, H1472, H792, H957, H1675, H366)
Kanji In Context(KIC73, KIC978, KIC275, KIC163, KIC161, KIC420, KIC31, KIC978, KIC16, KIC211, KIC131, KIC1124, KIC165, KIC1322, KIC430)
Kanji Kanban #42
犬の散歩禁止
Use the rikaichan popup dictionary or your favorite reference tool with my transcription below the photo if you need help reading the words on this sign.
The numbers below refer to the kanji I’ve transcribed below the photo, and correspond to their order of appearance in both Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji and Kanji in Context.
To learn more about how to work with this information and get the most out of my daily Kanji Kanban series, please read this.
Heisig(H238, H1189, H371, H1098, H370)
Kanji In Context(KIC319, KIC721, KIC176, KIC815, KIC217)
Kanji Kanban #40
たばこ２４時間自動販売機
Use the rikaichan popup dictionary or your favorite reference tool with my transcription below the photos if you need help reading the words on this sign.
The numbers below refer to the kanji I’ve transcribed below the photo, and correspond to their order of appearance in both Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji and Kanji in Context.
To learn more about how to work with this information and get the most out of my daily Kanji Kanban series, please read this.
Heisig(H159, H1620, H36, H1676, H726, H323, H1382)
Kanji In Context(KIC25, KIC161, KIC63, KIC64, KIC1223, KIC187, KIC334)
Kanji Kanban #6
天ぷら 大橋屋
Try to read the words on this shop sign. Use the rikaichan popup dictionary or your favorite reference tool with my transcription below the photo if you need help.
The numbers below refer to the kanji I’ve transcribed below the photo, and correspond to their order of appearance in both Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji and Kanji in Context.
To learn more about how to work with this information and get the most out of my daily Kanji Kanban series, please read this.
Heisig(H428,H107, H429, H1058)
Kanji In Context(KIC462, KIC87, KIC313, KIC54)
Kanji Kanban #3
お米の美味しいおにぎりです。
Try to read the words on this takeout shop’s signboard. Use the rikaichan popup dictionary or your favorite reference tool with my transcription below the photo if you need help.
The numbers below refer to the kanji I’ve transcribed below the photo, and correspond to their order of appearance in both Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji and Kanji in Context.
To learn more about how to work with this information and get the most out of my daily Kanji Kanban series, please read this.
Heisig (H919, H548, H219)
Kanji in Context(KIC562, KIC673, KIC311)
みみ はな のど If you’re studying hiragana, try reading this
みみ はな のど
If you’re studying hiragana, try reading this small medical clinic’s sign that I came across recently in Kyoto. It follows the rule that characters that are read vertically are read from right to left.
The parts of the body that this medical specialty is concerned with are referred to in the same order in Japanese as in English, which might well help you guess their meaning even if you don’t study Japanese!
Use the rikaichan popup dictionary or your favorite reference tool on the text I’ve transcribed just below the photo if you need help. Rikaichan will give you the English definitions and the kanji.
Kana Kanban
寿司
If you’re learning hiragana, give this Kyoto restaurant sign a look. It caught my eye because of the elegant, stylized script that might make this otherwise easy to read word a bit of a challenge, if not for the context of the photo.
You might also already be used to sight reading the word in its often seen kanji incarnation that I’ve written just below the photo.
These particular kanji are most often associated with this word and are seen in other forms much less frequently, so learning them as a set is common.
