Or maybe you imported a PlayStation Vita, and need a little help navigating the Kanji-laden menus?
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The addition of Japanese kana, the written language's two syllabic scripts, to kanji, or Chinese characters, adds another layer of complexity.
Not many countries need ingenuity as much as Japan: kanji characters each need twice as much capacity as the roman alphabet.
The writing test, in which we had to write the kanji with a finger on the iPad screen, was the most challenging.
Considered key to proper learning and crucial to looking up kanji in electronic dictionaries, stroke order can be especially difficult to remember.
Other smart features include the ability to create our own practice sets and the automatic generation of "revision sets" to help us learn kanji we hadn't mastered.
The list of these companies carried in the December 30 Nihon Keizai Shimbun is remarkable in that only eight of them have any kanji in their names.
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Bell was peddling almost all his bagels and bialys to stores on the East Coast until he met Kanji Kitamura, a Japanese distributor, at a trade show in 1998.
Although its minimal text is drier in tone than Human Japanese, we loved the app's thoroughness (it covers 2, 230 characters) and flexibility, allowing us to use it either as a kanji tutor or as a reference tool.
This kept the weight under 2lbs, and still kept it thin enough to take advantage of our great Windows work for inking and give you a great inking experience (like pressure sensitive inking, ability to do kanji, great sketching).
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One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.
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