Japanese Writing System (Kanji)

What is so absurd and ridiculous in japan is their Kanji script, There is about 4.000 in total of Kanji script available to express many thing like noun, verb, adjective, etc. Even for japanese people itself is really hard to learn about Kanji.

For children in elementary school, they will learn 1.006 character known as education kanji (kyoiko kanji). As for high school student got to learn 2.136 character in total of regular-use kanji (Joyo Kanji). So what we can say is even for japanese people itself need about 18 years to learn about 2.000 kanji that is regular-use in japan, and there still more and more kanji that is occasionally use in people name or something else.

Here is some example of Regular-use Kanji  :

日本	nihon	japan
東京	tokyo	tokyo
山	yama	mountain
川	kawa	river
一	ichi	one
二	ni	two
三	san	three
四	shi	four
五	go	five
六	roku	six
七	nana	seven
八	hachi	eight