Learn how to write and read the kanji 舌
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 21. |
| Hold Your Tongue. |
| In this Japanese kanji video lesson, you will learn the right way to draw and pronounce the kanji that means tongue. |
| Okay let’s draw the kanji for this lesson. The meaning of this kanji is tongue. |
| We are going to have a 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? One is 音読み (on'yomi) the On reading, 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 ゼツ (zetsu). The Kun reading for this kanji is した (shita). |
| Now remember the trick that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now. I need the green pen. |
| You see the top part, it’s the kanji for 1000, the bottom part is kanji for a mouth. You see in the mouth, there are thousands of taste buds. |
| Now let’s take a look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order. Start from the top right. Go down, 2, 3, mouth, 4, 5, and 6. Let’s try it again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah. |
| The On reading for this kanji is zetsu. Here we have じょうぜつ (jōzetsu). This word means talkative. |
| The Kun reading for this kanji is shita .Here we have したたらず (shitatarazu) this word means tongue-tied. |
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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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