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The document contains exercises related to kanji characters, including their origins, meanings, and readings in Japanese. It covers topics such as on’yomi and kun’yomi readings, the number of kanji used in everyday life, and the use of furigana. Answers to the exercises are available online.

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Learn Japanese With Manga Volume One - A Self-Study Language Book for Beginners-35

The document contains exercises related to kanji characters, including their origins, meanings, and readings in Japanese. It covers topics such as on’yomi and kun’yomi readings, the number of kanji used in everyday life, and the use of furigana. Answers to the exercises are available online.

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Learning the Kanji Characters 33

Exercises 練習

1 What are kanji and where do they come from?

Write the corresponding kanji for “tree,” “river,” 2


“money,” and “woman.”

3 What do the following kanji mean and how do


you read them in Japanese: 水, 男, 山, and 火?

What are on’yomi and kun’yomi? 4

5 When a kanji character comes with another


kanji, what is its usual reading?

When a kanji character is on its own, which 6


reading do we use?

7 Strictly speaking, is the word Fuji-yama a


Japanese word?

How many kanji actually are there, and how 8


many do we use in everyday life?

9 What is the difference between the kanji for


“ball” and the kanji for “king”?

What is furigana and what do we use it for? (See 10


Lesson 1 for more clues.)

— Answers to all the exercises can be found online by following the link on page 9. —

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