Observed arrival · 2026-10-05
Kanji Unearthed’s daily character puzzle
Kanji Unearthed pairs short stories about Japanese character origins with a daily puzzle: choose the parts, build a kanji, then read where it came from.
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- Japanese learners exploring kanji origins
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- The homepage says doubtful origin stories are labelled as doubtful, rather than presented as settled etymology.
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The homepage lists entries including 峠 (tōge, “mountain pass”), 凪 (nagi, “a calm sea”), and 躾 (shitsuke, “good manners, taught”). It says origins are checked against dictionaries and doubtful cases are labelled; the daily puzzle is described as choosing character parts before reading the origin. The extract does not establish how the puzzle validates an answer or whether source citations are linked.
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