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In this case, the story already exists: kunoichi is how female ninjas were called ! What will help you the most in memorizing kanji is breaking them down into smaller units.įor example, you can break down the kanji to write “woman” 女 in く ( ku in hiragana) + ノ ( no in katakana) + 一 ( ichi, one in kanji).įrom there, you can make up a story that will help you remember the kanji. Nowadays it is written 従! It is often difficult to recognize the original drawing.
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For example, the kanji for "to follow" was originally written 从 but it was made more complex to prevent low-class people from accessing to knowledge (=power). In order to memorize the first 3 categories, picture association is quite helpful.īut don’t get too much used to it! Kanji have evolved a lot: they were modified and even made more complex throughout many centuries. If you are curious, you can learn about them on Wikipedia! Memorizing the shape of a kanji *There are 2 other categories, but since a few amount of kanji fall into them, I chose not to explain them here. This last category is the most important one, because more than 70% of kanji were formed this way. ④ Combination of a component that conveys the general meaning and a component that represents the pronunciation ( 形 けい 声 せい 文 も 字 じ keisei moji): ③ Combination of meanings ( 会 かい 意 い 文 も 字 じ kaii moji): ② Representation of an abstract concept ( 指 し 示 じ 文 も 字 じ shiji moji):
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① Drawing of concrete objects/phenomena ( 象 しょう 形 けい 文 も 字 じ shōkei moji):
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Let's have a look at the different ways* kanji were formed. Understanding the different types of kanji That is why kanji are still used today and have so many different readings.īut don’t panic, KANJI-Link is here to help you memorize them! But they didn’t get rid of kanji! They were too useful to differentiate homophones (words that have the same pronunciation but a different spelling). Roughly, this is how they did it:Ī few centuries later, Japanese people created 2 writing systems based on kanji: hiragana and katakana. So, Japanese people had the great (?) idea to borrow the Chinese writing system. Originally, Japanese was only a spoken language. Finally with a pop up to the embassy to submit my visa application and another visit to pick it up I was all set and with only 2 days left to pack and a final meal with my boyfriend Alex.Kanji: Introduction A little bit of history Then April 2015 finally came when I could submit my form and apply for my visa and place at Yamasa, and other than the painful amount of awful passport photos I had to take it all went off with out a hitch, for they received all my posted forms and the immigration bureau issued my certificate of eligibility which I then track all the way from them via Charles de Gualle. I was highly tempted by a school in Kyoto but in the end Yamasa won out as you get more lessons for you money and the cost of living was way less.Īfter that was decided it was all about the saving, just in case I didn’t end up working a little while I was out there. It is all about a Japanese women who wants to be a teacher and one of her old teachers offers her a trainee role, little does she know it is teaching foreigners Japanese who in turn end up teaching her some in return.Īs a result of watching this show it inspired me to go to Japan and study in a language school. So December 2013 my Japanese teacher decided to show us an episode of a Japanese drama called Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo.