Introduction

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. 

これで終わります。お疲れ様でした。