/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I always thought this would be obvious enough but apparently to some people it isn't.

Faggot.

A language isn't made of characters, it's made of words. So you should go about learning words and not just kanji as such. Words written with a single kanji and maybe kana, you automatically get an actually used reading and meaning of the kanji. And while the dictionary will surely be listing over 9000 other meanings/readings, you won't get bogged down with them until you actually encounter them in use, which might as well be never. With words made of multiple kanji, the reading and meaning of the word isn't always at all related to any or all the individual kanji, so if you don't know the word as such, you're fucked.

Stop learning kanji and start learning words.