Learn how to write and read the kanji 見
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 18. |
| Looking Deeper Into Kanji. |
| This Japanese kanji video lesson will show you how to draw and pronounce the kanji that means to watch or to look. |
| Okay let’s draw the kanji for this lesson. The meaning of this kanji is to look or to watch. |
| And we are going to have a simple trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the readings. |
| Remember there are two readings in Japanese kanji? The 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, the On reading comes from Chinese and the Kun reading comes from Japanese. |
| Now let’s look at the On reading for today’s kanji. The On reading for this kanji is ケン (ken). The Kun reading for this kanji is み (mi) as in みる (miru) . |
| Now remember the trick that I was telling about? Let’s look at that now. |
| So remember this top part is the kanji for eye? The bottom part, it looks like legs. So this kind of looks like a monster for Monster Jinx, big eye, big legs. ほよよよよん (hoyoyoyoyon). |
| Anyways, let’s look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order. Let’s try it again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah. |
| The On reading for this kanji is ken. Here we have いっけん (ikken). You can see the kanji for first and you can see the kanji for to watch. So this word means first sight. |
| The Kun reading for this kanji is mi. Here we have みため (mitame). This word means outlook. |
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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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