Learn how to write and read the kanji 千
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| ひろこです (Hiroko desu.) |
| Hiroko here. |
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| Great job learning the kanji for 100. Are you ready for more? |
| Let’s draw today’s kanji. The meaning of this kanji is 1000. |
| 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 kanji? The first one is the 音読み (on'yomi) the On reading, the second one is the 訓読み (kun'yomi) the Kun reading. Long story short, the On reading comes from Chinese and the Kun readings comes from Japanese. |
| The On reading for this kanji is セン (sen). The Kun reading for this kanji is ち (chi) . |
| Remember the trick that I was telling about? Let’s look at that now. |
| There is a Japanese legend that crane has a 1000 years of life. So picture a crane head here and here we have wings and a crane always stands with one leg. Now you see the relation between a crane and 1000? |
| Now let’s learn how to draw this kanji. Pay attention to the stroke order. 1, 2, 3, that’s it. Let’s try it again. 1, 2, 3. |
| Now let’s look at some sample words. |
| Ta-dah. |
| The On reading for this kanji is sen. Here we have せんえん (sen'en) which means 1000 yen. |
| The Kun reading for this kanji is chi. Here we have ちよ (chiyo) which means forever and ever. |
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