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
paddy
- Reading
On-reading: den
Kun-reading: ta
- Mnemonics
In the wide open fields, there are footpaths. There are a lot of square paddies. A paddy is made of many squares. Can you see a paddy from this character?
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