I was just wondering, how do you guys create your anki cards when a kanji has more than one meaning?
For example 人(ひと) and 人(じん).
The sentence I am mining is using じん in this case. Should I include all possible definitions for 人 in this card? What do you think, how would you do it?
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I’m using Migaku so I’m a little confused if I should mark the word as being previously seen or not.
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create sentence card, use definition that fits how it’s used in sentence
add words which includes the reading of the kanji, not just the same kanji with different readings in bracket.
E.g.:
人（ひと）
人権（じんけん）
五人（ごにん）
Your question is flawed, you’re talking about multiple meanings and give an example with multiple readings. Also it’s not clear if your talking about Kanji only cards or vocab/sentences cards but since you said mining I guess the latter, though it sounds a bit early for mining if you’re not confortable with ひと, にん and じん yet.
I learned kanji with rtk (remembering the kanji) + Anki, and while there are different opinions on rtk, some things I still like about the method to this day, namely:
1. You only learn one meaning of a kanji, even if it has more than one. The idea is that it’s pretty easy to remember that a certain Kanji has another meaning after you already know one of its meanigns.
2. The second thing I liked is that it didn’t involve learning any readings out of context, but there wasn’t any vocab either which is why I probably wouldn’t recommend it anymore.
So what I would do is just learn readings in the context of words, forget about ひと, にん and じん and just learn words like 日本じん = Japanese person, 五にん = 5 people and 人(ひと) = person. If a new kanji comes up, just learn the meaning that’s relevant for that word. If it comes up again with another meaning, it should be very easy to remember without an SRS but you can still make another card if you feel like you cannot remember it.
If you are not too beginner use the joyo kanji publication which has all joyos (which are supposed to be the commonly used kanjis) with for each one a sample for each reading (on/kun one for each lecture). The official reference is here :[https://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf](https://www.bunka.go.jp/kokugo_nihongo/sisaku/joho/joho/kijun/naikaku/pdf/joyokanjihyo_20101130.pdf)
A parse-able version is here if you can do some programing : [http://linkdata.org/api/1/rdf1s3597i/Joyo_Kanji_tsv.txt](http://linkdata.org/api/1/rdf1s3597i/Joyo_Kanji_tsv.txt) (or if you are expert [http://ja.linkdata.org/work/rdf1s3597i/Joyo_Kanji_api.html](http://ja.linkdata.org/work/rdf1s3597i/Joyo_Kanji_api.html))
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