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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! It’s time for you to put your Kanji skills to use! Today’s kanji means “east,” and you’ll need to use the kanji you learned in the previous lessons to complete it.

This Japanese video lesson gives you a reminder about the kanji you learned previously. Then, you’ll build on it with easy instructions to create a completely new kanji that means “east.” In addition, find plenty of sample words and phrases to keep you confident about your kanji.





This entry was posted on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Kanji Videos with Hiroko . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

17 Responses to “Kanji Video Lesson #6: Bringing Kanji Together”

JapanesePod101.com says:

みなさん、こんにちは!

We hope you’re enjoying the kanji video series! Can you think of any other kanji that are essentially two other kanji put together? (There are a lot out there!)

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Tommy says:

I am enjoying the lessons very much! I especially appreciate how 紘子先生 writes the On readings in katakana and the Kun readings in hiragana to reinforce the fact that the On comes from outside Japan. Perhaps this is a standard way to do it, but it caught my attention and I think it is great.

As for two kanji put together using the ones in the other lessons, I can’t think of any yet…

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Aki says:

Thank you, the video is so interesting ^____^
I really like it !

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Fagnner says:

ファギネルです
I`m loving the lessons,its helping me so much.
ありがとうございました

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Rhys says:

Nice lesson again Hiroko-sensei and Japanesepod

some combination kanji that I can think of would be…
明 (日+月)
休 (人+木)
時 (日+寺)

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Zoran says:

Again very good useful explanation from 紘子先生
Tommy san great idea, yes I think this is reason.
All outside 日本 is written on カタカナ
and Japanese word , names are on ひらがな
Easy to follow , Chinese are also foreigner ね?
But we have the teachers

ゾラン

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Tommy says:

A couple more things came to mind since my previous comment… (どうも ありがとう, Zoran-san, for your kind words.)

I often hear the Kun reading of 東 — ひがし — given when talking about the East Coast, whether of Japan, but more often about the East Coast of North America. And the word for that is ひがしかいがん, with kaigan meaning “coast.”

Also, Rhys-san’s middle example of 休 is a really good one I think! I never have any problem distinguishing 木 from 本, but 休 from 体 often makes me stop and think… (But it’s a lot of fun!)

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Zoran says:

すごい Tommy さん
Funny thing , from Japan looking on east what is the first continent? I mean first coast.
California
そですね?
Japanese language are really interested.
:nihon:
ゾラン

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Yvon says:

Just subscribed. Loved your video so much! What music is it that playing both in front and at the end of this episode? Thanks so much!

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Atolm_Dragon says:

Great lesson again, thanks! Though the camera angles made it difficult for me to concentrate - I had to tilt my head to see the kanji vertically. Maybe you could keep the hand-held effect for when Hiroko-san’s talking? :)

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maxiewawa says:

Wah ひろこ先生はオーストラリア人の発音ですよね!

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Hiroko says:

Mina-san! Thank you for all the comments! Please comment and tell Peter to hire a professional makeup artist for me next time :wink:

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myint myint win says:

konnichi wa
hajimemashite watashiwa myint myint win desu.
dozoyoroshiku.

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jenny says:

i love the background music :kokoro:
can we download that tune somewhere?
i wanna put it into my cell phone :mrgreen:

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Mark says:

Jenny - I would imagine that you can get it from Zarul Shekhar directly.

Try http://www.zarul.com/Zarul/Welcome.html

There’s an email address for him - zarulzarul@gmail.com

Let me know how you get on!

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Kaven says:

nice ^^ that was surprisingly easy to understand.and as jenny pointed out(which i somehow always forgot to mention),the traditional music playing in the background is really sweet :)

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Ignas says:

Love those kanji lessons. I would raver describe that kanji as 本(origin)+日(sun)=東(east) and origin of the sun, place where sun starts.

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