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Hyphens in the kun'yomi readings separate kanji from their okurigana. The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible. This requires using the characters 𠮟, 塡, 剝, 頰 which are outside of Japan's basic character set, JIS X 0208 (one of them is also outside the Unicode BMP).
3 mi 1: 三十 mi 1 so 1 (30) 4 yo 2: 四十 yo 2 so 1 (40), 四人 yo 2 tari (4 people) 5 itu: 五年 ituto 2 se (5 years) 6 mu: 六爪 mutuma (6 claws) 7 nana: 七瀬 nanase (many rapids) Often used to mean many. 8 ya: 八雲 yakumo 1 (many clouds) Often used to mean many. 9 ko 2 ko 2 no 2: 九柱 ko 2 ko 2 no 2 pasira (9 nobles / gods) 10 to ...
Note that within the Jōyō Kanji there are 62 characters the old forms of which may cause problems displaying: Kyōiku Kanji (26): Grade 2 (2 Kanji): 海 社; Grade 3 (8 Kanji): 勉 暑 漢 神 福 練 者 都; Grade 4 (6 Kanji): 器 殺 祝 節 梅 類; Grade 5 (1 Kanji): 祖; Grade 6 (9 Kanji): 勤 穀 視 署 層 著 諸 難 朗; Secondary ...
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
1981: The 1,945 characters of jōyō kanji were adopted, replacing the list of tōyō kanji. [2] 2010: The list was revised on 30 November to include an additional 196 characters and remove 5 characters (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, and 匁), for a total of 2,136. The amendment also made changes to the readings of kanji present in the previous jōyō ...
Conversely, specifying a given kanji, or spelling out a kanji word—whether the pronunciation is known or not—can be complicated, due to the fact that there is not a commonly used standard way to refer to individual kanji (one does not refer to "kanji #237"), and that a given reading does not map to a single kanji—indeed there are many ...
Characters that were simplified in this way are called extended shinjitai, as simplification was extended to characters outside of the jōyō kanji list. Extended shinjitai was also implemented into JIS kanji. The first version of JIS (JIS C 6226-1978), created in 1978, contained 10 characters that were simplified in this way, such as 噓 and 叛.
JIS X 0213 has two "planes" (94×94 character tables). Plane 1 is a superset of JIS X 0208 containing kanji sets level 1 to 3 and non-kanji characters such as Hiragana, Katakana (including letters used to write the Ainu language), Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, digits, symbols and so on. Plane 2 contains only level 4 kanji set.