schoolwork

[emmling]

I'm stuck at the computer until my keitai finishes charging - not sure why that last 1% takes so long, but whatever - so I'm gonna type up some of my 漢字学 homework. Because why not? Kanji is fun. Also, I'm supposed to have the first half of these memorized by Wednesday (and the second half by Friday), so maybe this will help.

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[snowqueenofhoth]

Yikes, that's quite a list there. Lol, I have never SEEN a lot of those. It's like learning the kanji for ringo - no one uses it, pretty much. But it exists. I feel like that's a lot of these. I mean, does ANYWHERE use the kanji for ika? I guess maybe fancy restaurants.

Good luck with those. :)

(I also knew uchiwa and yukata. :D And a good portion of the words, just not the kanji.)

[emmling]

All my coworkers, as well as my Japanese tutor (who was helping me look some of these up) said they'd never seen half of them.

[emmling]

I knew four of them without having to look them up -

団扇 - うちわ
西瓜 - スイカ
茄子 - なすび
南瓜 - かぼちゃ

Concerts and food. That's where I learn my difficult kanji. The easy kanji all comes from karaoke.

There were also a few that I managed to work out just by looking at the parts and guessing -

煎餅 - せんべい
野分 - のわき
山羊 - ヤギ

Which makes me feel like I might actually be learning something after all.