Many people think that learning kanji characters is incredibly difficult. They are afraid of a huge number of characters.
But I assure you, it is not so. Study of hieroglyphs is a very interesting and fun!

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Remark
In this post, I mean Japanese. The value of Chinese hieroglyphs can be a little bit more.

"In the Japanese language since the sixth century AD, there is a huge number of borrowed Chinese words. In spite of this, even knowing a lot of hieroglyphs, you can not correctly read the Japanese text for grammatical and semantic differences, in addition to mainland China is now used simplified characters, and in Japan they have remained traditional. Thus, the Chinese and Japanese writing system evolved from one basis, but in different ways, therefore, knowing Chinese, read Japanese text will not work: there is a probability to understand the basic essence of the written "(c).

Thanks to the study hieroglyphs, I have no particular problems to read and understand what is written in the instructions in cars, equipment and so on. For example, I helped my father to read the instructions in the Japanese electronic toothbrush.

It all began with the fact that in the distant 2006, I taken a great interest very old games in the JRPG genre on the Super Nintendo (Yes, I love the old school games on the emulator).

Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, etc. But such popular games have been translated into English and even Russian. But how much undervalued and great games, but they are in Japanese ... and I decided to start learning Japanese.

I remember two years ago, it was very surprising to hear that I know hieroglyphs more than high school student Japan :)
Today, I learned about 1,500 characters.

And imagine how I feel when I read and understand the characters, and surrounding people look with their mouth open in surprise!:)

Learn characters easy and fun, if you know some of the secrets.
I use the mnemonic method. This method which facilitates the memorization necessary information by forming associations, and any emotional outbursts.

Here is an example:

悪 (warui) - Bad.

For Russian-speaking is not difficult to remember this character, because he is in tune with the "steal", and steal - BAD. Easy to remember, is not it, right?

Or

土 曜 日 [doyoubi] - Saturday.

In Russian it sounds like "All fucked-up". And those who work on Saturdays, is perfectly aware :)

What kanji hieroglyphs consist of.

Many people still think that Asians are printed on these keyboards:

However, everything is much easier. They keyboard is no different from the rest. Each character, no matter what he was referring to was not terrible, consists of a limited number of specific elements - radicals, or in another key:

休 = 亻 + 木

競 = 立 + 兄

淡 = 氵 + 火 + 火

Any of the hieroglyphs can be "written" by pressing no more than four keys, so that the Chinese words can be printed in no way slower than the English. To facilitate the work of the entire keyboard is divided into zones. In each zone, typically contains one grapheme same basic feature with which their calligraphic cursive begins. There were only five basic features (horizontal, vertical, and so on. D.), And therefore on the keyboard, there are five areas in which it is not difficult to find the right graph. There are, however, other ways of typing. For example, at the phonetic method, first using Latin letters transmitted sounding Chinese word, and then from the computer to the proposed number of hieroglyphs with the same sound (which in Chinese is far from rare) selected desired. There is also a way of combining two of the above method.

It is worth saying that the particles involved in the formation of a character sometimes are modified. Like flatten or cut off to save space.
For example:

心 -> 忄

人 -> 亻

刀 -> 刂

水 -> 氵

火 -> 灬

List of all the particles can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kanji_radicals_by_stroke_count

Use logic!

With the help of logical connections can easily memorize characters and words.
Here are a few examples:

娘 [daughter]	女 (woman) + 良 (good, excellent)	Parents always think their daughter the best and good.
姦 [noisy, clamorous]	女 (woman) + 女 (woman) + 女 (woman)	Women have gathered ... As it alludes, what will be noisy.
忍 [patience]	刀 (sword) + 心 (heart, spirit)	First teaching of ninjutsu - patience. "Train your mind to it was mightier than the sword."
露 [dew, but also referred to as Russia]	雨 (rain) + 路 (Road)	It can be explained as "in the Russian road blurred by rain."
群 [flock]	君 (you) + 羊 (sheep)	"In the collective mind the intellectual abilities of individuals and, consequently, their individuality disappear ..." In the crowd you are obedient sheep and shepherd your master.
好 [love like]	女 (woman) + 子 (child)	Every woman loves children.

This also applies to words:

吸血鬼 [vampire]	吸 (suck) + 血 (blood) + 鬼 (devil, ghost)	Devil sucking blood.
洗 熊 [raccoon]	洗 (wash) + 熊 (Bear)	Washing bear.
老子 [Laozi]	老 (old man) + 子 (child)	His mother bore him in her womb in '81. A newborn was gray hair, why he looked like an old man.
芸 者 [geisha]	芸 (art) + 者 (anyone person)	Human of art. This word refers to the basic characteristic of a geisha - a woman, perfectly know how to entertain the audience with the help of the techniques that were in use in XVIII-XIX centuries - dance, singing, jokes.
女中 [maid]	女 (woman) + 中 (inside)	Administering considered internal designation women? Of course not - just this woman, who in the house, such as a maid (a girl in the house), maid (girl in the upper chamber).

Attention! Do not confuse these two words!

• 知人 [the familiar]
• 痴人 [idiot, fool]
  And these words sound the same in Japanese - Chijin!
  

Any character denoting someone + 子 (child) is a baby, cub:
女子 - girl
男子 - boy
猫 子 - kitten
犬子 - puppy
鹿 子 - young deer
Sometimes the characters can be interchanged - 子 猫.

Use your imagination!

Character «fire» 火 similar to fire, and 木 - a tree. At the same time two trees 林 - it's "grove" and three trees 森 - forest.

雨 - it's like a window where **rain **

門 what it is like? Its the gates.

骨 if you look closely, it looks like pixel skeleton.

灯 and this man (left) holds a lamp.

Look at this character - 眠 (sleepy, sleep)

Imagine that it is a top view of the room. On the left is a window in which you can see the crescent, and the right bed that weariness is people.

Let's take a little more complicated:

鬱 (melancholy)

鬯 (herbs, ritual wine) + 缶 (amphora, bank, kettle) + 冖 (lid) + 彡 (beard, fluff) + 木 (tree)

Imagine an old forest, overgrown with shrubs and trees. It seems a long time there was no one there. And once people lived here. The only thing that remains of them is a clay jar with wine, covered with a lid, and covered with fuzz and mold. And now he stands there for a long time, and nobody before him the case. It sounds sad, and somehow depressing.

If you have bad with imagination, I advise you to read these books:

• Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda "KANJI LOOK AND LEARN" -
  http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/kanji-look-and-learn_en
  As an android app - https://apkpure.com/kanji-image/app.nvtsoft.vn.learnkanjiimage

• Michael Rowley "Kanji Pict-O-Graphix" http://www.slideshare.net/japanmylove1132011/kanji-pict-ographix

• Len Walsh "Read Japanese Today: The Easy Way to Learn 400 Practical Kanji" https://www.amazon.com/Read-Japanese-Today-Practical-Language/dp/4805309814

• Easy kanji dictionary - http://www.jishop.com/comparison/

In the future, I plan to write a book with the analysis of each character (of course not all, but the most commonly used). And I need an artist for sketching.

And as a bonus analyze "the most difficult character," as it is, some say. Look at him!

This is a mess!
However, using the rules, analyze it apart:

穴 (cave hole) + ⻌ (walk, the way to go) + 月 (month) + 心 (heart, spirit) + 長 (long) + 馬 (horse) + 刀 (sword) + 言 (talk)

Passing on your horse under the moon, you have discovered the cave. And began ask there-anyone in it, but no one answered. Then, taking a long sword, you went inside. Heart beat stronger and stronger from excitement.

Well? And this is just an unofficial character means -only noodles.
And this is a restaurant where this noodles are made

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