Helpful kanji for daily conversations

[SadieNightingale]

I recently started using an Android app called HelloTalk. It lets you have real conversations with real Japanese people who are learning English. You teach each other through chatting, and by making use of the extremely awesome built-in features.
These features include correcting your partner’s sentences, translating, and transliteration, which shows you the romaji pronounciation of the kanji they’ve used. It’s mostly free, but there are limits on how many times you can use the features unless you buy the no-limits version with in-real-life money.
Just from using this app for the last few days, I’ve compiled a list of helpful new kanji for daily use, which you might like to take a look at. Please feel free to add any you’ve used on a regular basis in actual chats. If anyone wants to re-arrange these into handy categories, please feel free to do that too. (romaji) [english]

Japanese	Romaji	English
今日	kyou	today
今晩は	konbanwa	good evening
私の名前わ	watashi no namae wa	my name is
お元気ですか？	ogenki desuka?	are you feeling well?
始めまして	hajimemashite	nice to meet you
昼食	chuushoku	lunch
食べた	tabeta	ate
大変美味しかったです	taihen oishikatta desu	it was delicious
返信	henshin	reply
仕事	shigoto	work / job
お願い	onegai	please
娘	musume	daughter
優しい	yasashii	friendly
図書館	toshokan	library
行く予定	iku yotei	planing / scheduled to go
読書	dokusho	reading
水泳	suiei	swimming
大好き	daisuki	I love it
彼ら	karera	they
両方	ryouhou	both
非常に	hijouni	very
楽しい	tanoshi	fun
日曜	nichiyou	sunday
笑い	warai	LOL
市	shi	city
今朝	konchou	this morning
大学	daigaku	university
県	ken	prefecture
人形	ningyou	doll
時間	jikan	time
東京	toukyou	Tokyo
行動	koudou	behaviour
京都	kyouto	Kyoto
気分	kibun	feeling / mood
気候	kikou	climate
本当	hontou	truth / fact
店員	tenin	salesperson
都合	tsugou	circumstances
駅	eki	train station
見物	kenbutsu	sightseeing
出来事	dekigoyou	incident / event

[jprspereira]

I’m VIP in there and I didn’t know about the transliteration option.

Oh, captain! Thank you !

[Kumirei]

Japanese	Romaji	English
今日	kyou	today
今晩は	konbanwa	good evening
私の名前わ	watashi no namae wa	my name is
お元気ですか？	ogenki desuka?	are you feeling well?
始めまして	hajimemashite	nice to meet you
昼食	chuushoku	lunch
食べた	tabeta	ate
大変美味しかったです	taihen oishikatta desu	it was delicious
返信	henshin	reply
仕事	shigoto	work / job
お願い	onegai	please
娘	musume	daughter
優しい	yasashii	friendly
図書館	toshokan	library
行く予定	iku yotei	planing / scheduled to go
読書	dokusho	reading
水泳	suiei	swimming
大好き	daisuki	I love it
彼ら	karera	they
両方	ryouhou	both
非常に	hijouni	very
楽しい	tanoshi	fun

[alexbeldan]

You’re really liking these tables.

[polv]

Wow, you can even create a table without using a CSS stylesheet. No inline CSS either.

[SadieNightingale]

Please teach me how to make tables like this!

[alexbeldan]

@SadieNightingale

<table>
<tr>
    <th>Japanese</th>
    <th>Romaji</th>
    <th>English</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>今日</td>
    <td>kyou</td>
    <td>today</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>今晩は</td>
    <td>konbanwa</td>
    <td>good evening</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>私の名前わ</td>
    <td>watashi no namae wa</td>
    <td>my name is</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>お元気ですか？</td>
    <td>ogenki desuka?</td>
    <td>are you feeling well?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>始めまして</td>
    <td>hajimemashite</td>
    <td>nice to meet you</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>昼食</td>
    <td>chuushoku</td>
    <td>lunch</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>食べた</td>
    <td>tabeta</td>
    <td>ate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>大変美味しかったです</td>
    <td>taihen oishikatta desu</td>
    <td>it was delicious</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>返信</td>
    <td>henshin</td>
    <td>reply</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>仕事</td>
    <td>shigoto</td>
    <td>work / job</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>お願い</td>
    <td>onegai</td>
    <td>please</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>娘</td>
    <td>musume</td>
    <td>daughter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>優しい</td>
    <td>yasashii</td>
    <td>friendly</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>図書館</td>
    <td>toshokan</td>
    <td>library</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>行く予定</td>
    <td>iku yotei</td>
    <td>planing / scheduled to go</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>読書</td>
    <td>dokusho</td>
    <td>reading</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>水泳</td>
    <td>suiei</td>
    <td>swimming</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>大好き</td>
    <td>daisuki</td>
    <td>I love it</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>彼ら</td>
    <td>karera</td>
    <td>they</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>両方</td>
    <td>ryouhou</td>
    <td>both</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>非常に</td>
    <td>hijouni</td>
    <td>very</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>楽しい</td>
    <td>tanoshi</td>
    <td>fun</td>
</tr>
</table>

[SadieNightingale]

Thank you @alexbeldan !!

[vargsvans]

Semirelated (maybe not really) resource which I thought I would drop here anyway.

https://kaisuu.herokuapp.com/

It shows the usage of Jouyou kanji on tweets from Japan and ranks them in order from most used to least. I realize that Twitter and Hello Talk differs in what is useful, but could be fun to take a look and see how far down the list you can get before you reach a kanji that is as of yet unknown to you.

[Gorgophone]

Am I going absolutely insane or are the kanji randomly turning yellow

Edit: Oh, do they light up when they’re being counted? I can barely see the yellow on my screen, talk about a subtle effect

[vargsvans]

Yup, it’s being updated constantly, hence the yellow marking. You are not insane

[Gorgophone]

I was seriously worried for a minute there, haha. It’s a cool little site though, thanks for sharing!