In James Heising’s book series, he chose a total of 3000 Chinese characters for students of the Japanese language to learn.

Because certain Kanji appeared more than once in his books, there are total of 3218 entries.

He grouped 1666 of these Kanji into “sound groups”, but the more I studied the Kanji, I realized that it is possible to group many of the 1553 “ungrouped” Kanji into sound groups as well.

So now I’m going through the remaining 1553 Kanji and sorting them into groups.

It takes a long time to analyze each individual Kanji and sort them, so I want to sort 50 of them day, which would take me about 30 or so days.

But I think a more realistic schedule would be sorting 25 Kanji a day, which would take me about 2 months.

And once I get into the flow, it gets pretty easy, so I’m going to put off analyzing Japanese words until I finish sorting the Kanji.

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