Learn how to write and read the kanji 人
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 9. |
| Kanji People! |
| You’ve mastered a whole lot of helpful and interesting kanji and you are doing great. |
| And now, our next kanji is a must know. |
| How important is it? |
| Well, there are over 6 billion reasons to learn today’s kanji. |
| Get ready to learn the kanji that describes people. |
| Let’s draw today’s kanji. |
| We are going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute but let’s first look at the kanji reading. |
| We have the On readings and the Kun readings. Long story short, the On readings come from Chinese and the Kun readings come from Japanese. |
| The On reading for this kanji is ジン (jin) and ニン (nin) and the Kun reading for this kanji is ひと (hito) . |
| Now remember the hint that I was telling you about? Let’s look at that now. |
| Picture a person walking one foot in the front and the other foot in the back. Now it looks like a human. |
| Let’s look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order, it’s very important. It’s easy 1, 2. Let’s try it again. 1, 2. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah. |
| The On reading for this kanji is jin and nin. First we have jin にほんじん (Nihon-jin) it means Japanese. Next we have nin, さんにん (san-nin) you see the person kanji here. It means three person. |
| Next we have Kun reading. The Kun reading for this kanji is hito. Here we have ひとかげ (hitokage) which means a person’s shadow. |
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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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