Learn how to write and read the kanji 十
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Lesson 12. |
| Ten Kanji. |
| You can draw kanji for 1, 2, and 3. |
| Now it's time to add 10 to the mix. |
| Let’s draw today’s kanji. |
| The meaning of this kanji is 10. |
| Now we are 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 Japanese kanji? One is the 音読み (on'yomi) , the On reading and the other one is the 訓読み (kun'yomi) , the Kun reading. The On (On) readings come from Chinese and the Kun readings come from Japanese. |
| Now, the On (On) reading for this kanji is トウ (tō) Now, let's look at the Kun reading, the Kun (Kun) reading for this kanji is じゅう (jū) . |
| Now remember the trick that I was telling about? Let’s look at that now. |
| 5 plus 5 is 10! |
| Now let's look at how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order.Left to the right. top to the bottom. Let's try it again. 1, 2. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah! |
| The On reading for this kanji is tou. Here we have とおか(tōka), which means the 10th day. |
| Now, the Kun reading for this kanji is ju, we have じゅうがつ (jū-gatsu) which means October. |
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