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More Logical & Researched than Heisig or Henshall but lacks Layout,
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This review is from: 2001 kanji: Structure analysis, association method, fully cross referenced, fast visual index (Paperback)
This book, like those of Heisig and Henshall analyses the Kanji into parts and gives stories or explanations as to the meaning of kanji bassed upon the meaning of their parts.
The analysis of the parts of the kanji, into radicals and some parts that do not appear in radicals is based upon the authors indepth analysis of the etymology and logic of the Kanji. Using the parts, the author then makes up stories to explain each kanji in a similar way to Heisig and Henshall but I find that DeRoo's explanation of the parts leads to more coherent, logical, meaninful explanations due to his greater attention to the "true" meaning of the @arts. Having the "true" meaning of the parts is not all that important in each story. But when you are stuck with trying to explain a reason (make up your story) why squiggle under an inverted u, means a letter (the ji of Kanji), then it helps to interpret the squiggle correctly as a child, and not as a shperherd's crook, because it will be easier to explain why the same symbol appears in the kanji for grandchild (mago) for example. I am not suggesting that Heisig or Henshall are that bad. In fact, I would recommend that you purchase Heisig's books, such as Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 1 first. DeRoo starts with the explanation of all the little parts, sticks with them, and for me they work. And in any event, I would still recommend, as Heisig suggests, making up your own explanations based upon the explanation of parts given by DeRoo. On the other hand, the look, layout and typsetting of this book are awful. The seems to have been typed with a typewriter and then the kanji were drawn in by an amateur (probably the author) and the whole thing photocopied and cheaply bound. I wish that someone would take DeRoos work and update the look and layout. But even in its present form DeRoo's work is highly recommended to those learning the kanji. DeRoo was a Catholic Priest from Beligium who towards the end of his life taught Japanese in Japan.
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