Learn how to write and read the kanji 休
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 10. |
| Combination Kanji. |
| You’ve learned so much kanji lately and you are probably ready for rest. |
| Instead, why not take a look at the kanji that means rest? |
| Now let’s draw today’s kanji. The meaning for this kanji is to rest. |
| Now we are going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the kanji readings. |
| And remember, there are two readings in Japanese kanji? One is On readings and the other one is Kun readings. Long story short, the On reading comes from Chinese and the Kun reading comes from Japanese. |
| The On reading for this kanji is キュウ (kyū) and the Kun reading for this kanji is やす (yasu). やす (yasu) is in やすむ (yasumu). |
| And remember the hint that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now. |
| This left part, this part indicates the person or human and the right part indicates the tree. So a person resting under the tree. |
| Now let’s learn how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order, it’s very important. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Let’s try it again. Person 1, 2, a tree 3, 4, 5, 6. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah. |
| The On reading for this kanji is kyu. Here we have きゅうじつ (kyūjitsu).It means holiday. You see the kanji here. |
| The Kun reading for this kanji is yasu. やす (yasu). is in やすみ (yasumi) which means the holiday or the day off. |
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27 Comments
HideHello みなさん！ We're right in the middle of Golden Week here in Japan, so this kanji seems very appropriate! Do/did you have a spring break (春休み, haruyasumi)?
Louise san
Konnichiwa.
It was decided long time ago so please don’t ask us why.
Because it is Japanese….
I can understand the difficulties of kanji and distinguishing particular reading from others.
However, it is so then you have to memories it…:disappointed:
Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com
The on-yomi reading of "sun" (日）can be pronouced/read in two ways "jitsu" (ジツ） and "nichi" （ニチ）
But the on-yomi for "holiday" is written as "kyuujitsu" (キュウ 日〕using "jitsu" (ジツ)
Why is not "nichi"（ニチ） used in this context?
Bango san
Konnichiwa.:smile:
Thank you for your question.
When you have kanji with hiragana (okurigana), you should use kun-reading.
When you have compound kanji (more than two kanjis), you shoul use on-reading.
For example, 聞く is ki-ku and 新聞 is shinbun.
Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com
Thank you for the lesson but every time I'm asking myself how can I know when to use the one tipe of On/Kun reading and when to use the other one?
Farebury san,
Konnichiwa.
The left radical should be smaller than the right because of balanced and beautiful appearance.
If you made 人 thin and turn a bit, it looks like イ doesn’t it?
Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com
ughh why does 休み the 人 looks like イ.
Hi Peter Dray!
Thank you for posting!
It's always easier to remember kanji if you think of a story or a picture :innocent:
I hope you are enjoying learning kanji with us!
Happy holidays!
Engla
Team JapanesePod101.com
well that's genius, a person resting under a tree makes that much easier to memorize now thanks :-)
Maymoona san,
Is it too easy?:grin:
You are great you keep studying!
Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com
* Sorry I meant "On-Yomi" :disappointed: