JiShop

Japanese-English electronic dictionary with special focus on kanji characters

  
  
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Japanese-English kanji dictionary
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Articles on kanji mnemonics

JiShop is designed to be the core element of a kanji learning courseware. This courseware will be based on a special memorization technique: grouping characters by their Chinese readings and creating mnemonic stories that efficiently code all the information. Here you can read two documents about this technique:

Learning Kanji through Plot Mnemonics
(short article about the method published in the Daily Yomiuri in 1995)

The Chain Method of Studying Japanese Characters
(big and detailed description)