Kanji of the Week
Kanji Rule (2): Pictures Became Kanji.
Pictures became kanji. When you look at a picture, you know what it means. When you look at the kanji made from a picture, you can guess what it means. The kanji for "bird" is a picture of a bird.
Kanji usually have at least two readings. One is called on-yomi or the Chinese reading, and the other is kun-yomi or the Japanese reading.
- Meaning
wing
- Reading
On-reading: u
Kun-reading: hane, ha
- Mnemonics
A bird has two wings. Both wings have the same shape. The wings have many little feathers. Can you see the bird's wings from this charcater?
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