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Welcome to Heisig's Kanji Wiki
For a project in my Japanese 1001 class, I decided to try to learn many kanji utilizing "Remembering the Kanji" by Heisig. This wiki will contain both Heisig's stories to remember the kanji (taken from the free section of his book available online) as well as any stories I came up with that helped me.

If anyone else has any other stories for any kanji, please add to this and hopefully this wiki can be a useful tool for anyone trying to increase their kanji knowledge. ^^

Kanji
Kanji are the really complicated (sometimes) looking symbols in Japanese. They can be some of the toughest parts of Japanese to learn and remember. Because of this, Heisig created his book so people could quickly and easily learn many kanji using stories. You can find the free portion of his book, from which all these stories come from, here.

I have issue with some of Heisig's stories. To me, some of them are needlessly complex or rely on religious imagery a bit much. So for some, when I could think of a story I liked better or worked well for me, I put it. But I couldn't think of some for all.