Thank you for your email, and checking in my blog of these days. I didn't think you'd learn Japanese. I laughed that Emoji! Just now, I'm reading the book about "Kanji & Japanese" written by a philology professor. It's very interesting. Why am I reading this? I wonder the situation of Japanese children have to Learn 3 kinds of letters from 7years old. They're 2 of sound letters and 1 mean letter. They called HIRAKANA and KATAKANA and KANJI. You can see KANA is co-sounds. is made by Japanese.
But nowadays China lost and changed a lots of Kanji compared to Japan. If you look at Kanji, you can understand the meaning. Isn't it nice? Pattern.Yes! So, I easily imagine you have had a lots of effort to learn Japanese.
Almost all foreigners start from KANA.I think it's not useful. To read and understand directly, Kanji is a shortcut. (Speaking is not this issue) For instance,,川(kawa) means river.山(yama) means mountain.😉 We can talk about many things to study... https://www.k-wam.jp/wamken/41576/
Your place is going to winter and warmer day by day.