I've recently started reading Heisig's Remembering the Kanji book, but I don't really understand what a primitive is. Can the primitives actually have meanings or are they just used to help remember what they look like?

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Anonymous Thu Dec 4 21:27:10 2008 No.1714003 [Reply] [Original]

I've recently started reading Heisig's Remembering the Kanji book, but I don't really understand what a primitive is. Can the primitives actually have meanings or are they just used to help remember what they look like?

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 4 21:45:46 2008 No.1714070 the book explains it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 4 21:47:52 2008 No.1714076 anime in my /jp/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 4 21:48:15 2008 No.1714078 >>1714070 I didn't understand it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 4 21:49:56 2008 No.1714086 >>1714003 Only to help remember. But in some cases it is some old character that might have had a similar meaning.

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