第一水準漢字

English translation: level-1 kanji

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Japanese term or phrase:	第一水準漢字
English translation:	level-1 kanji
Entered by:	Mark Kellner

02:28 Jul 20, 2004

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Japanese term or phrase: 第一水準漢字

Kanji set for Japanese input. Is there a standard English translation for this already?

Wei Peng Loy KudoZ activity Questions: 223 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 14
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Level 1 kanji

Explanation:
It seems that there are many ways to translate 第一水準漢字, but I would probably go with "JIS Level 1 kanji."

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Note added at 27 mins (2004-07-20 02:55:59 GMT)
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Microsoft calls them ¥"JIS level-1 kanji.¥"

http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q="...

Whereas ¥"level 1 kanji¥" is the equivalent of the posted phrase, perhaps ¥"Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) level 1 character set¥" would be the most complete translation: http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q="...

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Mark Kellner
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Local time: 10:06

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Level 1 kanji

Mark Kellner

Grade 1 Chinese characters

RameshRath

JIS Level 1 kanji

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第一水準漢字

Level 1 kanji

Mark Kellner
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Local time: 10:06
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第一水準漢字 Grade 1 Chinese characters

Explanation:
There are different grades of chinese characters or Kanjis. Grade 1 Kanjis include the most basic characters. The word 'Grade' has been used in the Nelson's dictionary to classify the Kanjis.

RameshRath
India
Local time: 19:36

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第一水準漢字 JIS Level 1 kanji

Explanation:
As explained in Ken Lunde's classic "Understanding Japanese Information Processing", JIS Level 1 kanji is a subset of the character set standard JIS X 0208-1990, which is a Japanese government standard. The JIS Level 1 kanji are the most commonly used kanji, while the JIS Level 2 kanji are the less commonly used kanji of this standard. The Gakushu kanji are a subset of the JIS Level 1 kanji and are the set that is subdivided into Grade 1 through Grade 6 for educational purposes. Since Grade 1 contains only 80 characters, it is unlikely that this would be what is referred to in the question.

Unfortunately, the book is not available online, but the link below is to Ken's home page, which contains links to more information than you probably need to know about encoding Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

Reference: http://www.praxagora.com/lunde/cjk_inf.html

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