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Kanji Disambiguation:
Japanese has A LOT of homophones for words that have completely different meanings and lots of kanji onyomi that share the same pronunciation. It's a high-context language which means you must be familiar with enough social situations to know which variant of that kanji homophone applies. This can be quite difficult. Learning stroke number can be tedious for a non-native speaker to learn. Most Japanese dictionaries can be useful, but these dictionaries help you learn vocab for unknown words, but most don't help to distinguish related kanji.
How this Guide Helps:
This guide does that. It's organized into consolidated lists of kanji onyomi homophones. This will help you familiarize yourself with enough relevant and useful kanji with their respective vocab words. You can compare them with other kanji with the same onyomi pronunciation. This helps cut down the overhead of disambiguation. Thank you for choosing Tokyo Rakugaki. I hope this guide becomes a valuable resource towards your language proficiency!