Basic Kanji Book

460 Pages·2006·12.85 MB·English

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‘The ancient Chinese drew pictures of various things around them. These
pictures have gradually ticen simplified and have taken on a square shape to
make them casier to write. This is how the present Kanji characters wure

male, Each Kanji, therefore, carries a specific meaning

Look at the following picture.

Guess the meanings of the Kanji characters below.

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Lesson 1

‘These Kanji characters were made fcom very primitive pictures as Fallows,

Usually each Kanji has at least two ways of being read; the so-called ‘KUN
YOMI' (Japanese eeading) and ‘ON YOMI (Chinese reading)

Pietore _~ Kanji ‘KUN ON Meaning
A oO [NICHI] sun
day
A OR [GETSU] moon
month
As [MOKU] tree
{BOKU]
I) ee [SAN] monncain

CISENI) river

[DEN] cice field

A BE LIN man
ININ] person
Oo ib [KOU) mouth

Bo kak [SHA] car

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[MOK] gate

) reading is rarely used,

When a single Kanji is used alone as a word, we usually read it by ite ‘KUN
YOML' Vananese reading) which gives its meaning. When Kanji are used! together
with other Kanji to make a word, we oflen read them by their ‘ON YOMI'
(Chinese reading) . Generally speaking, however, the way of reading Kanji shonld
be decided according to each individual word,
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jt=yvhk 2 fe B—HOSALABSE (Basic Kanli)

2-1. BFOPEMI (Kanll writings)
<BZAOM—I (Basic Rules) >

J—JV1 : Make vyery Kanji the same size and put them
ina square,

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JoW 2 | Follow the hasie stroke onder.

(1) Write from left to right, <2

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(3) Draw strokes from the top ta the bottom as follows.

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4} Draw strokes frou the left to the right in the follomng
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(8) Draw square inthe following a.
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(8) When there is a figure in the square, the line which closes
the square is Brawn Test, 3 ‘
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cd. When a stroke line passes through a square, draw that

stroke last. 1 a 4

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A—13 : There are chree basic ways to end a stroke

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2-2, k#HAL4 (Reading Exercises)

Write the reading of the following Kanji in {liragana,

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Write the reading of the following Kanji in Hirazana,

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‘Today is the 15th of Mareh

“That mow over there is Mr. Yamakawa,

Mr. Yamakawa isa Japanese,

That mountain aver there is
MU Tsukuba.

This river is the Tone Kiver.

Me. Kawada’s specialty is cars.

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Lesson 1

2-3, PEHALWS (Writing Exercises)

4. Pill in the blanks sith an appropriate Kanji

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AL. Till in the blanks with an appropriate Kanji,

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45 CERRE -2- (Kanji made from pictures -2-}

Look at the following picsure, Tach drawing indicites a certain meaning,

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