Kanji is kinda a giant obstacle to Japanese beginners. At first when people see Kanji, it is like "what is this?", "why it has to be so complicated?", "how can I supposed to write this?". In somewhy, they are right, Kanji is difficult in both remembering and writing. We cannot just blindly write Kanji whatever we want, it has writing order and you will see writing Kanji isn't that hard anymore.
1 - Introduction to Kanji
For those who may not learned yet, Kanji is one of the 3 syllable charts in Japanese language, beside Hiragana and Katakana. It is known that Kanji was originally borrowed from Chinese characters. It is a symbolistic system in which each symbol represents a particular meaning. But this does not mean each symbol is supposed to be a word, 2 symbols can be combined together to become a new word, thus have a different meaning. Let's take a look at this exmaple:
- 先 - Sen - Former/Previous/Old
- 生 - Sei - Life/Living
- 先 + 生 = 先生 - Sensei - Teacher/Mentor
In Kanji, it has a number of categories of Kanji radicals. Each radical represents an basic element (or category, for example: water, tree, etc...), and by combining radicals with another components to form different words.
2 - Kanji Writing Order
So we understand basically what Kanji is, now we will see how to write Kanji. For better visualization, take a look at the picture below (source: Basic kanji Book vol1):
And here are some examples for different kanji symbols (Source: Basic Kanji Book vol1):
And here are some examples for different kanji symbols (Source: Basic Kanji Book vol1):
By looking at these examples, we also see that each represented Kanji symbol has combination showed below, thus creating different words with different meanings.
So that is some basic comcepts of Kanji system and how to write kanji. Stay tune, good luck and have fun in your Japanese learning journey!
Source: blog.akirademy.com
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