Kanji in this list are sorted by when Japanese children learn them
There are only kanji learned in an elementary school and they are basic
1st year(6-7 years old)
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 右 雨 円 王 音 下 火 花 貝 学 気 休 玉 金 空 月 犬 見 口 校 ॣ
Text: Telling Time Part 1 by LearningJapanese, literature
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Text: Telling Time Part 1
I highly suggest you visit these two pages before continuing on:
http://learningjapanese.deviantart.com/art/Text-Learning-to-Count-257937405
(Teaches you how to count)
http://learningjapanese.deviantart.com/art/Printable-Clock-258540891
(Good visual reference)
Telling time in Japanese is not too difficult, actually. It just takes practice to get used to it.
Learning how to say the hours is the easiest and first step:
いちじ (ichiji)= one o'clock
にじ (niji) = two o'clock
さんじ (sanji) = three o'clock
よじ (yoji) = four o'clock
ごじ (goji) = five o'clock
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Text: Particle No: Basics by LearningJapanese, literature
Literature
Text: Particle No: Basics
の
No
'No' is a particle, just as 'ka' is. However it serves a different purpose. 'No' is the particle that connects two nouns. You can think of it as the 'possessive' particle or as the apostrophe 's'. (It has other meanings as well, but that will come at a later time.)
Let's see some examples.
たけしさんのでんわばんごう
Takeshi san no denwa bangou
Takeshi's phone number
だいがくのがくせい
Daigaku no gakusei
A college student (literally: the college's student)
The first noun is always the noun th