Elizabeth Plain

Kanji-kan: Puzzle Book 1 (Volume 1) Elizabeth Plain Bilingual edition

Read, Write and Remember Kanji.

The puzzles in this book focus on the 80 kanji that are taught in the first year of school in Japan.

These are the most essential, basic kanji and include the characters needed to write numbers, days of the week and months of the year.

In addition to the puzzles and their solutions, the book contains clearly set out examples for each of the kanji, with on and kun readings for each character. There is also a detailed word list which gives examples of 160 commonly used words, with readings in hiragana and translations in English.

Kanji-Kan are not complicated to do and everyone who has completed a Sudoku puzzle should feel instantly at home.

Each puzzle is based on a 9 x 9 grid. Some cells in each grid have been completed already and all you need to do is identify the missing characters and fill in the empty cells.

The rules are simple:

- A kanji can be used only once in each row.

- A kanji can be used only once in each column.

- A kanji can be used only once in each small 3 x 3 block.

Are you ready for the Kanji-Kan challenge?

There is only one way to find out!