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
bamboo
- Reading
On-reading: chiku
Kun-reading: take
- Mnemonics
Bamboo stands straight. Their leaves are very narrow. In this picture there are two bamboo stalks and they each have two leaves. Can you see the bamboo from this character?
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