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		<title>四字熟語　「初志貫徹」</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you out there have wrapped up your summer studies and are enjoying your summer vacation. With all that free time, what a perfect chance to recommit yourself to your Japanese studies! And to that end, I've prepared for you a lesson in positive thinking.

初志貫徹
しょ・し・かん・てつ
(first / intention or plan / pierce / penetrate or clear)

Sure, it looks like it's a bit of a doozy, but don't get overwhelmed by the seeming difficulty of the characters. The meaning of the phrase is simple: to see one's original intention to the end.]]></description>
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		<title>A Kanji Examined – 月</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we examined 日, the kanji for Sun, so today, since we've started with heavenly bodies, let's go ahead and examine the kanji for the Moon: 月

There are two primary meanings for this kanji: (1) the Moon and its light, or other planets' moons; and (2) one month. (There are other, more obscure or archaic meanings, but they are rather outside the scope of this article.)

The Japanese reading for this kanji is つき and the Chinese readings are けつ and がつ.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/04/a-kanji-examined-moon/</link>
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		<title>Update:  Algorithm Reworked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We've uploaded a revamp of our algorithm today in an effort to fill in many of the holes and gaps the old algorithm was causing to some of our users.  This new algorithm focuses on issues dealing with studying words in the long term, so actually many users may not notice any immediate change.  However, if you're curious on how the new algorithm affects you, read on!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/04/update-algorithm-reworked/</link>
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		<title>Downtime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will have a small outage at 3:00 pm CDT (20:00 UTC) this afternoon to upload our updated algorithm.  The outage should last between 15 - 30 minutes.  We apologize for the inconvenience.]]></description>
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		<title>四字熟語: 「日」</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time, we looked over the Sun kanji, 日, and the various meanings that it holds. We're going to continue our study of this character today by looking at some 四字熟語 (よじじゅくご)--that is, four-character idiomatic compounds. What a great day to commemorate the new 四字熟語 deck here at Read The Kanji!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/04/yojijukugo-%e6%97%a5/</link>
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		<title>New Deck &#8211; Yojijukugo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone, we'd  like to announce that we have just added a new deck to the site, a brand new Yojijukugo (四字熟語) deck, which will quiz you on over 350 challenging idiomatic kanji compounds!  But I'm sure you wouldn't be here if you weren't ready for a challenge! We've worked really hard putting it together and in creating great, natural Japanese sentences to go with each yojijukugo (四字熟語) compound, and personally I think it's come out really well.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/04/new-deck-yojijukugo/</link>
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		<title>A Kanji Examined &#8211; 日</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get good with kanji, you need to really jump into it and face it head-on. You need to grapple with it and, in the end, you need to tame it. Sure, it looks scary from a distance, but if you just take a close look at it and stare it down, you'll find that, really, it ain't all that bad. (If it helps, think of kanji like Pokémon that need to be caught in the wild and trained into submission. Or something like that.)

And with that in mind, I'd like to introduce you today to my sunny little friend, the character for Sun:
日
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		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/03/a-kanji-examined-sun/</link>
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		<title>New Interface Revamp!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we're uploading a new interface for Read the Kanji that we've been working hard on these past couple of weeks.  The idea behind it was to try and open up the Read The Kanji interface to make it not only cleaner and more seamless, but to help open up the path for more features we plan to add in the future.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/03/new-interface-revamp/</link>
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		<title>Remembering the Kanji: Mnemonics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you've likely already lamented since before you began your Japanese studies, kanji are a bunch of symbols. Quite a far cry from our comparatively simple set of 26 letters, right? You need to know a lot of these if you want to read or write most Japanese material, so how in the world are you supposed to remember them? There are thousands of these things after all!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readthekanji.com/blog/2010/03/remembering-the-kanji-mnemonics/</link>
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		<title>The Basics of Reading Kanji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is authored by Jonathan.  Please check out his blog, Jonathan&#8217;s Japan(ese) Journal • ジョナサンの日本(語)日記, for more Japanese related articles.
For native English speakers, Japanese is not a particularly easy language to learn, nor is the kanji writing system an easy system to master. It takes a lot of time and effort, but don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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