#Kanji for beginners

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Learn basic Kanji for beginners

Kanji is one of the most challenging for Japanese learners because of its complex stroke orders, multiple readings and meanings. However, if you have effective method, Kanji will be an easier task.

MochiKanji is a platform applied unique method that helps you learn Kanji fast and effectively. Let's learn some common Kanji with us:

[mochayoubi]

a fellow japanese learning friend told me there's 2 major "weed-out" learning curves to japanese, and that's 1) learning hiragana and katakana and the 2) learning kanji.

but I propose that there's a 3rd difficult learning curve and that's when you're in what I've called The Intermediate Soup where you don't have any specific thing to work on anymore but you know that you aren't There Yet

[pancake-breakfast]

Minor CSM Manga Spoilers below...

Just realized that "Asa" (アサ) in Japanese can also be written as 朝, which means "morning," while "Yoru" (ヨル) in Japanese can also be written as 夜, which means "evening," so these characters are literally Morning and Evening and have a whole yin-yang thing going on with them fr.

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3 Japanese Writing Systems: Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana

In this post , you will learn on 3 Japanese writing systems. Check out my japanese products [here]. The Japanese writing system is a fascinating and complex blend of different scripts that evolved over centuries. For anyone looking to learn Japanese, understanding these scripts is essential. This post delves into the intricacies of the Japanese writing system, exploring its history, structure,…

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Quick Guide: Using Manga & Light Novels to Learn Kanji

When it comes to language learning, finding new and fun ways to study to keep yourself motivated as you progress is sort of a must. It’s easy to find yourself stagnating as you become more advanced or finding your current methods boring. The idea of using manga as a study tool for kanji or casual language isn’t anything new in the Japanese studying community, but I’ve never actually seen methods being exchanged so I decided to share one I picked up recently to start learning more kanji in a way I found more entertaining than textbooks and typical kanji resources. 

Resources:

tanoshii japanese

any japanese dictionary app w/ handwriting recognition

a pen that can write on your phone or tablet

Manga

When it comes to manga, most if not all kanji found are accompanied by furigana whether it is a character’s name or a verb or any other type of noun. This makes looking up any new kanji you find easy whether it is on. Personally, in the case of manga I will use the dictionary function on TanoshiiJapanese which is a great resource in general. Simply type the hiragana or kanji (and match the kanji you’re searching with the suggested kanji your keyboard generates) and press search. Not only will you be provided onyomi and kunyomi readings, but sample sentences and any and all conjugations a word may have including tense functions, potential form, etc.

Light Novels (& Doujinshi + JPN Fanfic)

Unlike manga, light novels (as well doujin and fanfic made by Japanese fans) rarely contain furigana so using the ‘type and search’ method you can do for manga doesn’t really apply here. I always found it frustrating when this happened to me because knowing what the kanji looks like doesn’t mean anything if you can’t look it up since you don’t know the pronunciation. But when I discovered the benefits of handwriting recognition dictionary apps, it was no longer an issue. Whenever you come across an unknown character, you can write it on the app and it will search it from there. The more clear your handwriting, the better the search will be so getting some sort of tablet/phone writing pen will go a long way. Even something cheap from online will do.

I also recommend the app has a list making function of some sort so you can save the kanji you learn if you prefer keeping your notes and flashcards electronically. Personally, I use Shirabe Jisho as it provides definitions, stroke order, onyomi and kunyomi readings, the JLPT level of the kanji (which may matter to some) and various compounds. Looking up the character 惚 produced several compounds like: 惚れる(ほれる), 見惚れる (みとれる) and 恍惚 (こうこつ).

[leasdoodles]

I imagine Omen doing this pose every time he asks that question

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6th February - 男の子+同じ

(I’m jumping into Kanji because I learnt ひりがな and かたかな last month!)

Today I put 50 more words from the JLPT N5 vocab list into a grand Quizlet so it’s now got 200 terms altogether! This is very passive study but it eases me into a session of studying. My motivation is often quite low and so I need to coach myself into studying like convincing a 5 year old to do their homework :)

I’m going to randomly generate numbers from 1- whatever number of terms I’ve got at the time in the Quizlet, and learn at least 5 kanji every day, less on a busy day. Today I had a lot of uni work to catch up on and so I only managed to learn 2. Better than nothing though !

(I use digital note taking for practice because the permanence of real paper demotivates me :( so my handwriting is better irl I swear, it’s just a little uglier on my tablet.

[mishkakagehishka]

alright there might be a new addiction forming

[melonymint753]

So I initially just wanted to add an "acktually, the dots mostly represent fire, not legs, and 熊 is also used to describe a big fire, isn't that neat! And please credit the Chinese language for the characters next time :D"

But my need to double check things made me dig a little deeper, and uh. That's not how it worked actually.

熊 is not 能 on legs.

能 WAS bear.

Look, a chonky fella with ears, legs and a little tail! That got stylized over the ages. Since OP has decided to skip over this not "too important" bit, I'm going to pick up slack and point at how the bear's legs became the two "匕"-s, the upper left part is the head, and the 月 radical, while meaning "moon” on its own, takes on a "flesh" vibe when it's part of a character. So the modern character is still a chonky fella with legs, but square.

What happens next is a bit blurry (since Baidu results are various levels of source: Just Trust Me), but people started using this word for “bear" to also express energy/ability and just. decided that 能 should exclusively mean that.

Using 熊 to mean "bear" has some element of chicken-and-egg-ness. Some places say that when people wanted a new bear character, they added fire under its original form to express how bears were warm, or could survive forest fires, and the "big fire" meaning came later. Others say that 熊 meant a big fire in the first place (a fire so strong it's like a bear, if you will), and when people decided they wanted 能 for themselves, the bear meaning got moved over.

From the above picture, you can tell that 熊 had some form of beastness pretty early on. The second character already shows the "能 over fire (火)" structure, and a cursory search says it existed in the hundreds of BC times.

So basically, humans invented a word for "bear", decided they didn't want to share an adjective with an animal (???like why), and lit a fire under it to chase away the original meaning. Now in modern times, 熊 can still mean a stubborn person, while another animal is used to describe impressive stuff: 牛, aka bull/cow. The animals still win.

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What I love about Japanese

Sometimes it’s frustrating. I’m learning it because I love anime and want to be able to engage with the culture, but all the shounen I-belive-in-my-friends inspiration can’t help you when you’re faced with a list of 1000 kanji to learn before you’re at the reading level of a five-year-old. Sometimes I wish I’d picked a language with a writing system that made sense. 

But then once in a while something comes along that makes it all worth it. 

Now this. This is the kanji for ability.

It’s a nice enough kanji, has some radicals of its own but isn’t too full of itself. Learning all about it isn’t too important, what you need to know is that this is the character for ability. 

Now. 

This. 

This here is the kanji for bear. As in the animal, not the verb.

That’s right. According to the Japanese language, a bear is ability 

ON LEGS

[batnovauxx]

best part about learning japanese is being able to read and also eventually understand recognizeable words i hear in music or media. worst part is preparing to talk and then accidentally stuttering because i almost spoke in japanese, even though i meant to speak english which is my literal native language. my brain is stupid 😭 atleast im starting to learn but speaking can get embarrassing since im from tbe south

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How to learn Kanji & vocab easily?

Today we will guide you how to learn Kanji and Japanese words effectively!

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did an exercise in japanese class talking about what we do/don't drink and the guy behind me hit us with the わたしはトイレのみずをのみません like HUH

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Kudamono ✨🍐🍓🍎

[toskarin]

it's poor form to air your petty grievances with someone when it comes out they did something actually bad. save that for companies, like when you learn duolingo removed kanji from its beginner's japanese courses as part of their collab with crunchy roll

[kalashtars]

oh no...... if it isn't the consequences of my actions.... I have class tomorrow