Exploring the fundamentals of more than 500 Chinese kanji glyphs used in the Japanese language, derived as an abridged listing taught in grades 1 and 2 from over 13,500 glyphs, including: explanation of original meanings element by element; JIS pronunciations in kana syllabaries and rōmaji; meanings published by Japanese, Chinese, and Unicode external sources; vocabulary examples from Japanese and Chinese selected from over 375,000 dictionary entries; stroke count, Japanese grade and JLPT ...