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Learn how to write and read the kanji 本
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ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
Hiroko here. |
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Have you ever seen the kanji for Japan? |
Ever wondered what they mean? If so, this is the lesson for you. |
Let’s take a look at today’s kanji. |
Today’s kanji is Hon. This kanji means the origin. |
We are going to have a trick to memorize this kanji in just a minute but let’s first take a look at the kanji readings. |
One is 音読み (on'yomi) the On reading and the other one is 訓読み (kun'yomi) the Kun reading. Long story short, On readings come from Chinese and the Kun reading come from Japanese. |
The On reading for this character is ホン (hon) and the Kun reading for this kanji is もと (moto) . |
And remember the trick that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now. I need the green pen again. |
See the top part? It is again a tree. But we have a bigger root. So this line shows the bigger root of the tree. |
Now let’s take a look at the stroke order. Just like 木 (ki) left to right, top to bottom, middle to left, middle to the right and last one, sideways. Let’s try it one more time. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Got it? |
Now let’s look at some sample words and phrases. |
Ta-dah! |
The On reading for this character is hon .So here we have きほん (kihon). It means base or the origin. |
Next we have Kun reading. The Kun reading is moto. Here we have おおもと (ōmoto) which means the foundation or the origin. |
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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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54 Comments
HideWasn't Hiroko-sensi cute! She did a great job of teaching us the kanji for "origin". Do you know any names that have this kanji? How are they prononced?
zeroさん
Thank you so much for your feedback👍
Your words mean a lot to us. I've forwarded this to my team for our future improvement.
Please let us know if you have any questions :)
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Ryoma
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can you plz make more examples of a kanji and show the examples in a sentence to understand better ?
SJさん
質問ありがとうございます!
Yes, the definitions are nearly the same, but 大元 is more like "fundamental" and 基礎 is "basis," so they are slightly different.
Please let us know if you have any question :)
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Ryoma
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Can you please explain the differences between the words 大本 and 基本 . Their definitions are nearly the same. Can you use them both in a sentence and explain why one would be used over the other?
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こんにちは!ありがとうございます!
Thank you so much for the videos, I'm gonna learn japanese and live in Japan in the future, this is my dream 😊
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Kanji is very difficult
But I'll try to learn this
ありがとうございました。
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日本人?
フィリピン人は日本が好きなの?
私はフィリピン人でしょう
ニコル san,
Konnichiwa.
Books are made of paper and paper is made from wood.
I think that is the reason why book has 木 in it.
:laughing:
Yuki 由紀
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