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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