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Learn Kanji With Me

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Today I will talk about how to read and write kanji

1. Kanji Readings

    In Japanese Kanji there 2 readings, onyomi and kunyomi. ONYOMI is reading based on chinese people said in that age. KUNYOMI is based on Japanese language itself.

a. On-yomi Readings(音読み)

  Onyomi readings is based on Japanese people for what chinese people said. The rules of ONYOMI readings is when two kanjis is side by side, it will be said with ONYOMI readings. For example 大木 was read "taiboku" big tree, for the onyomi of the "big" kanji is tai and kanji "tree" was boku. Some of two kanjis are not always said with onyomi readings. For example 台所 is called "daidokoro" means kitchen, from kanji "counter for machines" kanji with onyomi and "place" kanji with kunyomi.

b. Kun-yomi Readings(訓読み)

    Kunyomi readings is based on Japanese Language. For a  lone kanji who has a kunyomi readings will be read with kunyomi readings. For example 山 is called "yama" means mountain, some of them followed with okurigana(送り仮名).Okurigana is kanji which followed by hiragana, this only applid for verbs and adjective. For example白い is called "shiroi" means white. Some of two kanjis can be pronounced wiith kunyomi and not always with onyomi.

2. Write Kanji

    To write kanji, you must follow the certain pattern of single kanji. Each kanji have specific strokes that must to be precisely written. If you write less or more than a specific strokes, then you write the kanji wrong way. I'll give you 5 examples of kanji writings

木　

田　

女　

手　

川　

That's it for today I hope that you all have much to learn. See you again

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Learning Kanji With Me

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Today i'm going to explain about what is Kanji and basic kanji from Pictograms

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1.Introduction of a Kanji

    Hello everyone, for you who first time learn Japanese Language always see like chinese character everywhere right? Now i'm going to explain what it is and a little history of kanji. KANJI is a third character of Japanese Language aside from HIRAGANA and KATAKANA that come from China in year 500 AD. There's 3 list of kanji KYOIKU KANJI, JOUYOU KANJI, and JINMEIYOU KANJI. KYOUIKU KANJI is list of kanji for grade 1-6 elementary Students(total approximately 1006). JOUYOU KANJI is list of kanji includes kyouiku kanji used every day(total 2,136). JINMEIYOU KANJI is list of kanji only used for the name of people. Now that's covered, i'm going to explain about basic kanji.

2.Pictogram Kanji

    What is pictogram? Pictogram is something based on images. The basic pictograms of Kanji is based of images of nature.

    As you can see, the sun 日is formed from a sun with a dot in a center. The door 門 is like western door but in Kanji. The mouth 口 is from opened mouth. The person 人 is from the armless man only with two foot. The tree 木 is from roots below and leaves above. The moon 月 is from crescent moon with two stripes in the middle and so on. There's alot of kanji based of pictograms, but this is the easiest of all. 

That's it everyone for today. I'll post another tomorrow. 

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