Learn how to write and read the kanji 日
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 5, |
| Land of the Rising Sun. |
| Today, we have the second kanji found in the word for Japan. |
| Let’s start the kanji for this lesson. The meaning for this kanji is a sun and we are going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the reading for this kanji. |
| Remember, there are two kinds of reading in kanji? First one is 音読み (on'yomi) the On readings and the second one is 訓読み (kun'yomi) the Kun readings. Long story short, On readings come from Chinese and the Kun readings come from Japanese. |
| The On reading for this kanji is ジツ (jitsu) and ニチ (nichi) and the Kun reading for this kanji is か (ka) and ひ (hi). |
| And remember the trick that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now. |
| There is a sun and there is a black dot in the sun. And that became this middle line. |
| Now let’s look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order. Starting from left top, go down and next we draw the middle line and then close it down. Let’s try it one more time. 1, 2, 3 in the middle, and 4, Got it?. |
| Let’s look at some sample words and phrases. |
| Ta-dah! |
| The On reading for this kanji is jitsu and nichi .Let’s look at jitsu first. Remember this kanji? ホン (hon) right?. So this is ほんじつ (honjitsu) means today. Next one is nichi. まいにち (mainichi) which means every day. |
| Next we have Kun readings. The Kun reading for this kanji is ka and hi. For ka we have みっか (mikka) which means the third date. Next we have hi, ひづけ (hizuyke) which means the date. |
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HideDo you know any words that have this kanji (日)?
Hi Sabara,
Thank you for studying with us and asking the question!
You might find the following series useful:
https://www.japanesepod101.com/lesson/introduction-to-japanese-kanji-1-introduction-to-kanji-script/?lp=159
The lesson 2 of the series says:
Kanji characters can have multiple readings. They're usually broken down into two groups: called on and kun readings. The on reading mimics the original sound made in Chinese, while the kun reading is a "revised" reading used to integrate with the Japanese alphabet.
Sincerely,
Miki H
Team JapanesePod101.com
Why are there two versions for the on reading and kun reading
Arigatou!
こんにちは、アニさん
コメントありがとうございます！
どういたしまして😄
Miki(美希)
Team JapanesePod101.com
Thank you for your comments, everyone! Sorry we didn't reply earlier.
>Hi Andreas,
That's a good question! She is holding 漢和辞典(kanwajiten), a kanji dictionary. You'll find a variety of kanji dictionaries at book stores in Japan. All the students in Japan buy one of them when they start studying kanji at primary school.
>こんにちは、セバスチャンさん
レッスンをたくさん見て、音楽を聴いてくださいね！Please watch many of our lessons so you can listen to the music👍
>Hi Michael,
Most of kanji have several readings. And some words, especially proper nouns have specific readings. When people name a baby, they even make up a reading. (Some pelple don't like that though...) So sometimes it is quite difficult even for Japanese to read proper nouns.
Keep studying with JapanesePod101.com
Cheers,
Miki(美希)
Team JapanesePod101.com
ありがとうございました！
Konnichiwa!
Is the Kanji "日" being abbreviated when used in the word for Japan? For example, Japan is Nihon but the Kanji's reading is nichi. If so, why is it abbreviated?
あ、残念ですよ。。。
Hi ,thanks for the work you do , I love the kanji series .I have one question .Whats the kanji book that Hiroko is holding on each lesson at the introduction?
Hello セバスチャン,
Thank you for your question.
The song was made for our video production. Unfortunately it's not available for download.
Sincerely,
Lena
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こんにちは！I was wondering where I can find the music at the end. Ive been searching for it for years now and cannot find it. Please help! ありがとう！
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Thank you for posting.
It seems that the video is working fine with this lesson.
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David さん、
Konnichiwa.
ず and づ have the same pronunciation, zu.
?
Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com
Im having problem understanding somthing how is hizuke 日づけ when all hirigana charts I've seen label zu as ず?
ニコルさん、
こんにちは。:smile:
今日 and 本日 are basically the same although 本日 is more formal.
今日 can be also read as コンニチ meaning 'today' in the sense of 'recently'.
Natsuko (奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
こんばんは、
今日 本日
Do they mean the same? and why we dont use neither kun nor on reading in 今日
ありがとうございます
ケビンさん、
こんにちは。:smile:
First, I'm very sorry for the late reply!!
It's difficult to say when On-yomi is used and when Kun-yomi is used.
Sometimes they can also be used in compound nouns.
At this point, the best advice I can give you would be to learn the reading
of kanji as 'a word', instead of sticking to on-yomi and kun-yomi.
The reality is that we Japanese learn both readings with such information,
but we don't think too much about whether it's on or kun in words in the daily life.
In order to understand how those readings are used, you'd have to go back to the origin
of words and kanjis.
It's easier if you learn kanji and reading in actually used words.
Hope this helps!:wink:
Natsuko (奈津子),
Team JapanesePod101.com
こんばんは,
(日曜日), the word for Sunday uses this. However, I'm a bit confused. I'm still trying to understand when to use On and Kun readings. My understanding was that the On reading is used when the word is completely made up of Kanji and Kun when it is a Kanji with Kana.
However, in the days of the week, the Kun reading び is used for 日. Why is this? It's even more confusing in 日曜日 as both the On and Kun reading are used together at the same time.
どもありがとう
Jackさん、
Konnichiwa.
We are sorry. We don’t have lessons for radical.
Samyさん
サミさん？
こんにちは。
The on-reading of日 is ‘nichi’ so 日本 takes the first syllable.
:smile:
Yuki 由紀
Team JapanesePod101.com
こんいちは！サミデス！
So i was wondering in the video it says that the Kun reading is か and ひ。Then why when you want to say Japan you need to say NIhon where does the Ni sound comes from ?
よろしくおねがいします！
Hi there,
do you have any lessons on radicals?
arigatou gozaimasu :smile: