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August 9, 2007

Japanese Kanji

Filed under: Uncategorized — by minoru @ 8:42 am

There is Kanji in Japan. Many Japanese don’t like Kanji reason why there is many kind of Kanji, Kanji is complex and it doesn’t remember easy,but Kanji is systematic like English grammer. All Kanji is relation and made for old happening in China, so when you learn Kanji history that how did it make, you understand it relates each other Kanji and naturally come into the Kanji meaning. Next, Kanji that we mainly use explain to use illustration. Difficult Kanji is easy when Kanji change the image. For example,”祭” is one of Kanji. this English meaning is festival. this word exhibits for one image,so situation that sacred to a god. “月” that left parts “祭” exibits for meat. “又” that right parts “祭” exibits for hands. “示” that below parts “祭” exibits for stool, so this word image is to put meat on stool. In the past, Chinese believed there is god in nature,so people sacred to nature and offer a meat to a god in festival. the word “祭” expressed this happning. one by one of “祭” relate Kanji that express god. for example, This words is “神”. English means god. this left side use “示”. also, The words is “神社“. English means shrine. That is to say, If we can know core parts like “示” and imagine what did their do to use it , we can understand Kanji very easy and to become fun. Finally, I hope the people who read this essay will become more interested in kanji and Japanese culture.

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