Learn how to write and read the kanji 春
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 15. |
| Spring into Kanji. |
| You are ready to learn the kanji that means Spring. |
| Now it might look hard at first glance, but you’ve already learned the kanji components you need to get it just right. |
| Now let’s try to draw this kanji. This kanji means spring. |
| We are going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the reading. |
| Remember there are two readings in kanji? And the first one is the 音読み (on'yomi) , the On reading, the second one is the 訓読み (kun'yomi) , the Kun reading. Long story short, the On reading comes from Chinese and the Kun reading comes from Japanese. |
| The On reading for this kanji is シュン (shun) and the Kun reading for this kanji is はる (haru) |
| Now remember the trick that I was telling about? Let’s look at that now. |
| Here you see three kanji and you know the ひと (hito) kanji, a person. And you know this one, the kanji for the sun. So picture in your mind, three people are walking together on the sunny day in the spring. |
| Okay now, let’s try to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order. Start from 3, 1, 2, 3 and people, 4, 5, and the sun, 6, 7, 8, 9. Let’s try it one more time. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah. |
| The On reading for this kanji is shun. Here we have しゅんらい (shunrai) which means spring thunder. |
| Next we have the Kun reading. The Kun reading for this kanji is haru. Here we have はるかぜ (harukaze) which means spring breeze. |
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