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Description: Japanese Kanji are logographic characters used in the Japanese writing system, which originated from Chinese characters (hanzi) and were adapted to fit the Japanese language. Kanji are an essential part of written Japanese and are used to write nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Kanji are made up of strokes and have various meanings and pronunciations depending on the context they are used in. There are over 2,000 commonly used Kanji, and it is estimated that one needs to know at least 3,000 Kanji to be able to read a newspaper. Some important keywords associated with Kanji include stroke order, radicals, on-yomi (Chinese readings), kun-yomi (Japanese readings), and furigana (small hiragana characters used to indicate pronuncia...
Description: "The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit". The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song. It is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
