Japanese Kanji N5: 午、年、寺、時、小 Meanings and Writings
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- 【JLPT N5 + Kanken 10】
Original Japanese Kanji Lessons from ToKini Andy! Learn the 5 kanji 午、年、寺、時、and 小 as well as the parts necessary to make them (none in this lesson)!
This series covers the 漢字 for the JLPT N5 and 漢検１０級.
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0:00 Intro
0:33 Noon 午
2:34 Hang to Dry 干
3:45 Year 年
6:27 Small Measurement 寸
7:50 Temple 寺
9:26 Time 時
11:12 Small 小
12:08 Quiz
Why We Don't Teach Readings (yet!)
As mentioned in the introduction video to this series ( ua-cam.com/video/RKWrWRFyfYo/v-deo.html ), it is my philosophy that it is a WASTE OF TIME to learn the readings for each kanji in isolation. I explain WHY in that video.
To learn how to read kanji, I think it is best to learn WORDS that contain that kanji in the context of SENTENCES. We WILL be doing that in this series, after learning the meanings and writings for the 118 kanji in the JLPT N5 and Kanken 10 tests.
So fear not! You WILL be learning how to read them in the near future. 😊
Back in the days the Chinese zodiac was also used for telling the hours of the day and for the months etc. The hour of the horse was from 11am to 1 pm - hence why its used for the kanji of noon.
This is getting more and more complex...
Following ToKini Andy's suggestion, I came up with my own mnemonic for the kanji for TIME 【時】(TOKI). Personally, I think it makes more sense and is historically more accurate to associate the radical 日 with "day" (rather than "sun") in this kanji, since before 1872, in the Meiji era, the counting of time, the hours and the different moments of the day were signaled by the sound of a drum in (Buddhist) temples.
So it makes perfect sense to explain the kanji 時 as a "temple" marking the "time", "hours" and "moments" of the "day".
I hope this mnemonic can also be useful to other people, if they find it appropriate.
11:15 I wasn't expecting to chuckle at a kanji leanring video but this got me haha
Thank you for your hard work on these videos!
Very nice video!! thanks again for helping those learning this beautiful language! ありがとうございます！
This is such good content, I know all the n5 kanji but I didn't understand any of them, this series has completely changed how I see kanji
I was already inventing my own meaning for radicals I kept seeing but I didn't know to check for historicals and real meaning in them till your videos came out
I'd really love if these could somehow come out like 4x faster lol, I'll subscribe online and see what that's about but these videos are so excellent
I feel very fortunate that I'm from Taiwan and so learning traditional kanji is the least of my worry, but still takes a LOT of time to learn all the usages and pronunciations, but overall Japanese kanji is like elementary school level in Taiwan. I also have the added benefit of knowing how to read in Taiwanese. Similar to Japanese, kanji or "hanji" in Taiwanese usually has multiple different pronunciations (often times more similar to Japanese than Mandarin, like 走 is run in Taiwanese but Mandarin altered the meaning to walk, the retained k/g sound in words like 簡，滑，講，江 as opposed to shift to j or h sound in Mandarin), lack of f sound in Taiwanese, similar short stop sounds, and even counting has a colloquial way and a sino way. Unfortunately most people these days can't read kanji in Taiwanese anymore, but I can't even imagine what most people have to go through with a language that's already so tough to learn.
Sorry I got a little carried away about Taiwanese, but I just think young people who can speak any of the Southern Sinitic languages should cherish their mother tongue since they share a lot of similarities with Korean and Japanese, a lot more than you would expect. My journey of learning Japanese made me learn so much about Taiwanese that I look at this whole Han漢 culture from a much wider historical lens. For example, now I know why chopstick in Taiwanese is 箸 tī like Japanese and not 筷子 like Mandarin along with so many many other interesting finds. Mandarin speakers are often very quick to point out how ridiculous Japanese kanji is (like I did), but sometimes we need to take a step back and realize that Japanese actually preserves a lot of the original meanings of 漢字 kanji, oftentimes more than modern Sinitic languages. Not to mention that many of the modern "Chinese" words in science, technology, medicine, and economics actually came from Japanese kanji.
日本語の漢字を紹介してくれてるの嬉しい🎉🎉❤❤
ちなちに漢字検定１０級は外国人にお勧めの難易度です🎉🎉❤❤
I'm not sure if it is intentional or if anyone else struggles with this but I think the time for the kanji in the quizzes is so short, especially for longer ones like 時 😭
I love the series tho, thank you so much!
Definitely! I only give enough time so that viewers can pause the video. It's definitely not going to be possible for most people to remember or write any of the future kanji in 3 seconds. But I wanted something standard, so people always know when to pause. =)
@ToKiniAndy I really like the short consistent timing to pause! I find it annoying when the creator guesses how long it will take you and you just have to wait doing nothing after unpausing or try and pause it if you needed more time than they though
@@ToKiniAndy Ahhh, that makes sense! 😊
Now that I am on the lookout for all of the pictographs left by the aliens for ancient China, surely someone else can also see that the last historical example of 年 looks like a chest burster coming from a chest with ribs. Am I crazy?! LOL
hey andy, do you think there are some kanji that arent worth learning as a beginner? Ive been using 'remembering the kanji' as part of my studies and there are some at the beginning ( IM LOOKIN AT YOU BASEBALL TEAM AND WHALE KANJI) that i feel like I would never ever use. I feel like it would slow my progress learning those instead of just skipping them and learning like- the kanji for up or down or other words i may actually see used and not just niche info.
For sure. That’s why I chose a different order than RTK. 😊
8 centimeters is not tiny. Some would say it's even huge
When is the next lesson 😢😢😢
But.. but Andy, wHy DoN't YoU tEaCh tHe ReAdInGs? How will I survive if I don't know that 年 can be read as ねん or とし?
I have already been learning kanji for a couple of months.I started with reading....and I must say that it was very hard to remember the different pronunciations of each kanji. This way is better- perhaps only for this sort of people like me , who need to have the reference in their head. I think that after a while u will appreciate how a wonderful explanation it is.
@@ewaha1818just learn vocabulary directly. Isolated kanji study is inefficient.
I was confused. I mixed up 牛 and 午 again T.T
Why are radicals important again? I mean in a case like this where the radical has nothing to do with the Kanji its almost like "Just learn all Kanji and ignore radicals" to be a better approach.
I think that a few exceptions does not negate the value of being aware of radicals. Granted, I’ve never suggested anyone needs to MEMORIZE all the official radicals. 😊
@@ToKiniAndy I totally understand learning the parts of a Kanji, makes a lot of sense to me, but pulling out the radical as "special" seems weird to me.
I've found that at least having a general knowledge of radicals helps a lot with my Kanji memorization. It's also a big help if you're using a Japanese dictionary that categorizes words by radical
6:05 A correction: The symbol "1" was not invented in England nor is it only used by English speakers. It's Arabic.