Tiêu đề Remembering Kanji I.pdf ✅

©1977 by James W. Heisig All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form without the written permission of the publisher. Published by Japan Publications Trading Co., Ltd. 1–2–1 Sarugaku-chõ, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101–0064 Japan First edition: 1977 Second edition: 1985 Third edition, First printing: July 1986 Fifteenth printing: November 1999 Fourth edition, First printing: September 2001 Distributors: united states: Kodansha America, Inc. through Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016 canada: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 195 Allstate Parkway, Markham, Ontario l3r 4t8 united kingdom and europe: Premier Book Marketing Ltd., Clarendon House, 52 Cornmarket Street, Oxford ox1 3hj, England australia and new zealand: Bookwise International, 54 Crittenden Road, Findon, South Australia 5023, Australia asia and japan: Japan Publications Trading Co., Ltd., 1–2–1 Sarugaku-chõ, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101–0064 Japan 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 isbn 4-88996-075-9 Printed in Japan
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Note to the 4th Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 part one: Stories (Lessons 1–12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 part two: Plots (Lessons 13–19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 part three: Elements (Lessons 20–56) . . . . . . . . . . 197 Indexes i. Kanji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 ii. Primitive Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 iii. Kanji Arranged in Order of Strokes . . . . . . . . . 495 iv. Key Words and Primitive Meanings . . . . . . . . . . 505
Introduction The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some relief to the constant frustration of forgetting how to write the kanji and some way to systematize what he or she already knows. By showing how to break down the complexities of the Japanese writing system into its basic elements and sug- gesting ways to reconstruct meanings from those elements, the method offers a new perspective from which to learn the kanji. There are, of course, many things that the pages of this book will not do for you. You will read nothing about how kanji combine to form compounds. Nor is anything said about the various ways to pronounce the characters. Further- more, all questions of grammatical usage have been omitted. These are all mat- ters that need specialized treatment in their own right. Meantime, remember- ing the meaning and the writing of the kanji—perhaps the single most dif3cult barrier to learning Japanese—can be greatly simpli3ed if the two are isolated and studied apart from everything else. What makes forgetting the kanji so natural is their lack of connection with normal patterns of visual memory. We are used to hills and roads, to the faces of people and the skylines of cities, to μowers, animals, and the phenomena of nature. And while only a fraction of what we see is readily recalled, we are con3dent that, given proper attention, anything we choose to remember, we can. That con3dence is lacking in the world of the kanji. The closest approxi- mation to the kind of memory patterns required by the kanji is to be seen in the various alphabets and number-systems we know. The difference is that while these symbols are very few and often sound-related, the kanji number in the thousands and have no consistent phonetic value. Nonetheless, traditional methods for learning the characters have been the same as those for learning alphabets: drill the shapes one by one, again and again, year after year. What- ever ascetical value there is in such an exercise, the more ef3cient way would be to relate the characters to something other than their sounds in the 3rst place, and so to break ties with the visual memory we rely on for learning our alphabets.