Different stroke order

• 国 (China)
• 出 (China)
• 生 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 北 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 書 (Taiwan, South Korea)
• 男 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 毎 (China, Taiwan, South Korea) it's not 每
• 母 (China)
• 花 (Taiwan)
• 右 (China, Taiwan)
• 魚 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)

Different style

• 後 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 今 (China)
• 新 (China, Taiwan)
• 立 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 高 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 六 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 下 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 道 (Taiwan, South Korea)
• 電 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 校 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 空 (China, South Korea)
• 食 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 南 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 店 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 週 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)
• 雨 (Taiwan)
• 飲 (China, Taiwan, South Korea)

Some brush strokes to take note of (personal opinion):

• 国 (4th) vertical before 2nd horizontal
• 年 (3rd) 2nd horizontal line before the left horizontal line
• 本 (5th) no hook
• 出 (1st) starts with horizontal line
• 長 (1st) starts with vertical line, not horizontal line
• 後 (1st)
• 生 (3rd) vertical line before 2nd horizontal line
• 東 (6th) straight line down with no hook
• 今 (2nd)
• 新 (1st)
• 立 (1st)
• 手 (4th)
• 学 (6th) 了 is not one stroke
• 高 (1st)
• 六 (1st)
• 下 (3rd)
• 気 (5th) cross is from right
• 山 (1st) vertical middle first
• 北 (1st) horizontal not vertical
• 書 (5th) vertical is last
• 水 (3rd) right component is two strokes not one
• 電 (5th) the dots slant left to right (rather than down, in, in out)
• 男 (3rd) vertical before horizontal inside 口
• 南 (2nd) straight not slanted
• 週 (4th) vertical first (vs. China) and left component is 3 strokes instead of 4
• 母 (3rd) two dots before middle bar
• 万 (2nd) right hook before slant
• 店 (1st) straight not dot
• 毎 (5th) different from 每, just a cross
• 雨 (4th) right slanting dots only
• 魚 (5th) vertical before horizonal cross
• 右 (1st) down slant first

Kanji

• List of Jouyou Kanji (Wikipedia (Print)
• Kakijun.jp

WaniKani

• WaniKanji is not upfront about their service. It requires you to create an account to access a free trial (up to Level 4) which gets you 100 kanji and 200 words. The website makes an unfair comparison that this is more than what first year Japanese students learn in an entire school year without clarifying that this refers specifically to children of around 6 years old. A better comparison would;ve been to contrast against how many kanji are taught to adult learners.

  The website claims students can learn 2,000 kanji and 6,000 words within a year or two. Their method of teaching is to make use of mnemonics (rather than rote memory), to learn kanji with the least brush strokes (as opposed to the most frequently used kanji), and made up their own names for 26 radicals (deeming the traditional names unhelpful). The review method is by way of flash cards which uses an SRS algorithm to display with priority the cards which the user has failed to answer correctly.

• Created their own names for 26 of the 214 radicals
• Uses mnemonics to memorize pronunciation
• Claims students can learn 2,000 kanji and 5,000 words in 1-2 years
• Learn from kanji with least strokes
• Recommends learning hirgana first
• Flash card system to review and recall from memory
• Lessons (Name, Examples), Quiz

In order

• Intro to WaniKani
• Is it free?
• Premium membership
• Prerequisites
• Lessons
• Radical names
• How to find radicals (Tofugu)
• Hiragana (Tofugu)
• Japanese input
• Double N
• How to type (Tofugu)
• Script compatibility mode
• Small vs. Big Characters
• Reading
• SRS algorithm
• Stroke order
• Review queue
• Waiting for reviews
• Review forecast
• Unlocking kanji
• Unlocking vocabulary

Tofugu

• Japanese IME

Kanji

• Bunka.go.jp (PDF)
• Bunka.go.jp
• Kyouiku Kanji
• Kyouiku Kanji (Junior High)
• Advanced Kanji for 3rd Graders
• Kanji Cards
• Kanjitisiki

Sources

• Kanshudo

Radicals

• 214 radicals in Kangxi

JLPT

• Previously 4 grades (1級, 2級, 3級, 4級 with 1級 being the hardest). Revised to 5 grades (N1, N2, N3, N4, N5 with N1 being hardest.
• Each grade has 5 components Grammar (文法), Vocabulary (語彙), Reading Comprehension (読解), Listening Comprehension (聴解), and Kanji (漢字)

Advanced words

• 演繹(えんえき) deductive reasoning

  Four Character Idioms 四字熟語(よじじゅくご)

  N2 Level

  四捨五入 (ししゃごにゅう)

  rounding (fractions); rounding half up

  N4 Level

  (N4) 一生懸命 (いっしょうけんめい)

  very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly; desperately

  魑魅魍魎 (ちみもうりょう)	evil spirits of rivers and mountains
  花鳥風月 (かちょうふうげつ)	beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics
  百鬼夜行 (ひゃっきやぎょう)	nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc. / veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
  日進月歩 (にっしんげっぽ)	steady progress; rapid advance
  聖人君子 (せいじんくんし)	person of lofty virtue; man of noble character; perfect person; saint
  聖人無夢
  孤軍重囲
  泰然自囲
  融通無碍
  旧態依然
  有為転変
  丁丁発止 (ちょうちょうはっし)	with (the sound of) clashing swords / (arguing) fiercely; heatedly; vehemently​
  四苦八苦
  四面楚歌
  四神相応
  孤角四面
  孤軍重囲
  孤軍重囲
  聖人賢者 (person of lofty virtue and great wisdom)	person of lofty virtue and great wisdom

  平平凡凡
  津津浦浦
  生生世世
  戦戦慄慄

  Idioms 慣用句

  • 尻に敷く(しりにしく)
  • 人間万事塞翁が馬 (にんげんがんじさいおうがうま) (ref)
  • 猫に小判(ねこにこばん) (giving) a gold coin to a cat
  • 豚に真珠(ぶたにしんじゅ) casting pearls before swine

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