This page is still under construction. It will explain the proven linguistics of how kanji work—and address common misconceptions and misinformation about kanji. Once a Japanese language student understands the nature of kanji, they can better evaluate different kanji study methods, such as KiC-Anki, WaniKani, or Heisig.
To keep focused on the task at hand—providing a superior system of learning kanji to Japanese language learners—we will perhaps oversimplify some of the nuances of kanji theory. The well-prepared Japanese linguistics student (or teacher) will undoubtedly find something to quibble with in the models and phrasings that will be presented. To this skeptical audience more interested in the complete picture of kanji theory, we recommend work by J. Marshall Unger, starting with his book Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning. Unger’s work is rigorous, scientific, and sound, and nothing on the KiC-Anki site should be considered a substantive challenge to his theoretical model.
The KiC-Anki Method 