掲示板 Forums - Any easy way to study name readings?

I'm interested in studying readings for common Japanese names, since it tends not to be super obvious what reading to use for each character. The dream would basically just be a custom schedule of the top 200-300 most common Japanese names, and the only study vector would be Kanji to Kana. Does a schedule/list like that happen to exist? If not, how hard would it be to make myself? Thanks!

Thanks! I do see a few of them. I was also interested in given names, not just surnames though, and I can't find any lists along those lines. I'll have to look into trying the text analyzer tool.

Go to the schedule's settings and turn the kanji>kana vector off

Well the point is that that's the only vector I want to study...

You can change how unknown kanji are displayed in options; however, this setting is global, so you will have to toggle it on and off if you only want it for this schedule.

Yeah, I saw that setting. Unfortunate that it's global, I'd love to have more fine-grain control.

Okay, so names are just names. They don't have definitions, and I'm not too interested in listening, pitch/accent, and writing practice for them. Additionally, I'm not that interested in being able to write a name I hear or see in Hiragana, only read a name I see written in Kanji. That means the only vector that is relevant for my purposes is the Kanji -> Kana vector, so if I were to turn it off, I would have no vectors selected for the schedule.

The problem I'm running into is that I'd like to be able to study names that have Kanji I've never seen before, but this is automatically blocked by Renshuu. Similarly, I'd like to not have Furigana hints for the Kanji I'm unfamiliar with in names that do also contain Kanji I know, but this is also not possible without constantly fiddling around with my global account settings. It seems like Renshuu just unfortunately doesn't support the customization I'm looking for here.

I know what you mean, but I don't remember exactly how the vector works when you don't know the kanji so that's why I was confused. But I thought Renshuu's dictionary didn't have more than like two surnames, and I would have figured the setting doesn't affect custom words. Curious. I don't have much experience with custom schedules I suppose

It's a bit of a sticky edge case The only way to have this would be if Michael allowed the unkown kanji setting in the schedule settings, it may even just be a boolean value to change, depending on how the code is written.

Though in my opinion, I don't think there would be enough usage to warrant adding this kind of fine-grained setting.

I think the best way to go here would be to actually study the missing kanji by adding a kanji helper schedule to your names schedule using the three-dots menu.

If you have Renshuu pro, you could theoretically use the writing vector

The vector should only show the kanji alone. You then guess the answer while clicking on "i don't know", and on the results page, click on "change to correct" if you guessed right. That's still only two clicks, the same as normal. But I think that would mess up the writing mastery of your kanji