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ひろこです (Hiroko desu.)
Hiroko here.
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Lesson 9.
Kanji People!
You’ve mastered a whole lot of helpful and interesting kanji and you are doing great.
And now, our next kanji is a must know.
How important is it?
Well, there are over 6 billion reasons to learn today’s kanji.
Get ready to learn the kanji that describes people.
Let’s draw today’s kanji.
We are going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the kanji reading.
We have the On readings and the Kun readings. Long story short, the On readings come from Chinese and the Kun readings come from Japanese.
The On reading for this kanji is ジン (jin) and ニン (nin) and the Kun reading for this kanji is ひと (hito) .
Now remember the hint that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now.
Picture a person walking one foot in the front and the other foot in the back. Now it looks like a human.
Let’s look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order, it’s very important. It’s easy 1, 2. Let’s try it again. 1, 2.
Now let’s look at some sample words.
Ta-dah.
The On reading for this kanji is jin and nin. First we have jin にほんじん (Nihon-jin) it means Japanese. Next we have nin, さんにん (san-nin) you see the person kanji here. It means three person.
Next we have Kun reading. The Kun reading for this kanji is hito. Here we have ひとかげ (hitokage) which means a person’s shadow.
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Thank you for watching. ありがとうございました (Arigatō gozaimashita.)

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