Confusing Kanji- Trees!

I've been studying kanji on and off for about 20 years(mostly off). I currently know the meanings of about 500 kanji and the on and kun of about 2-300. I find that I frequently get confused between kanji that look alike except for perhaps 1 or two strokes. This is good in some ways because you know it's one or the other meaning, but can be problematical. I made this mainly as notes for myself, if you like it maybe it'll give me a reason to do more. Thanks!

This series covers:

木　ki
大　dai, oo
太　tai futo
本　hon, moto
米　bei, kome
林　rin, hayashi
村　son, mura
件　ken kutan
任　nin, maka
判　han, waka
天　ten, amatsu
夫　fu, otto
矢　shi, ya
失　shitsu, ushina
札　satsu, fuda
未　mi, ima
末 matsu, sue

来　rai ku kita

示　ji, shime
干　kan, ho
千　sen, chi
羊　you, hitsuji
洋　you, nada
科　ka shina
半　han
午 go , uma
干 hoshi

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Japanese
• kanji
• notes
• study

[trisoctehedron]

Recently I watched a video where a girl talked about giving Japanese lessons, including kanji, and some others were talking like it's easy.

Looks hopeless to me, unless you have a photographic memory.

Or maybe if you went over there and got a job.

[chimera15]

Yeah. It's pretty difficult, especially when you get older, but it has it's merit, and it's an incredibly beautiful system really. Kanji are kind of like a huge jigsaw puzzle really.

[priestvanglak]

Yes, not only that. but the combination of radicals can really throw you off. Like radicals can be used with other radicals and it confuses you on what radical to write. Rahhh.