Learn how to write and read the kanji 月
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 7. |
| Over the Moon Kanji. |
| You’ve learned the kanji that means sun. |
| Now it’s time to learn the kanji meaning Moon. |
| It’s easy because it’s shaped like a crescent moon. |
| Now let’s draw this kanji. |
| This kanji means moon and we’re going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the reading. |
| Remember, there are two readings in kanji? The one is On reading and the other one is Kun reading. 音読み (on'yomi) the On readings come from Chinese and the Kun reading comes from Japanese. |
| The On reading for this kanji is ゲツ (getsu) and ガツ (gatsu) and the Kun reading for this kanji is つき (tsuki). |
| Now remember the trick that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now. I need the green pen again. |
| You see how it looks like a crescent moon. Actually it kind of looks like a banana. So let me draw it again. It used to be like this and then it became straight but it still looks like a crescent moon. |
| Now let’s look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order, it’s very important. Start from left top, 1, 2, 3, 4. Let’s try it again. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Got it? |
| Now let’s look at the sample sentences and sample words. |
| Ta-dah! |
| The On reading for this kanji is gatsu and getsu. First one we have gatsu いちがつ (ichi-gatsu) which means January. Next we have getsu げつようび (getsu-yōbi) which means Monday. The trick for memorizing this is つき (tsuki) moon and day. Remember we learned this last time? So moon and day, Monday. |
| Next we have Kun reading. The Kun reading for this kanji is tsuki. Here we have つきみ (tsukimi) which means moon viewing. |
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