Daily Stroke Order Practice

[TehFlashBang]

2024年4月22日「月」

漢字：配
訓読み：くば.る
音読み：ハイ

メモ：Taken from the word 「支配」、translated as “Rule”, “Control”, or “Management”.
For some reason I have some trouble with writing this Kanji out. It feels awkward, especially in such a small space. This is really making me want to buy a new notebook.

@Pablunpro

Try this one, see if you find it useful: 辞典・百科事典の検索サービス - Weblio辞書.

Have a nice Sunday!

Thank you, I’ll make sure to take a look at it!

@CursedKitsune

Everything you need is probably here . I personally like 明鏡 as a primary J-J dictionary as the definitions are short and easy to understand. I also really like 実用日本語表現辞典 but the entries are few and they are massive normally. Basically it is great for getting an in depth view of common phrases but the length of the entries could be scary if you are just starting to use J-J dictionaries.

Wow, that’s a lot of information. I’ll have to take a closer look at that later, but it does look like there’s a Pitch-Accent specific dictionary in there, which will definitely come in handy. Thank you for the incredible resource!

[TehFlashBang]

2024年4月23日「火」

漢字：遥
訓読み：はる.か
音読み：ヨウ

メモ：From my flashcards. I had a hard time grasping the Kun’yomi reading for this one so I decided to make it my Kanji for today.
Besides that, I’m having a lot of trouble with the word 「果たす」or “To accomplish”, “To achieve”, to “realize”, etc. Every time I see 「果」I think of 「結果」 “Result” or 「効果」 “Effect”, and remembering the meaning of “Achieve”, “Complete”, or “Succeed” escapes me. Maybe I’ll have that be my next Kanji.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年4月24日「水」

漢字：解
訓読み：と.く、ほど.く、ほぐ.す、わか.る、さと.る
音読み：カイ、ゲ

メモ： “Unravel”?
教えて教えてよその仕組みを…
Uhh, anyways, I noticed this Kanji is commonly used in compound words, similarly to 想 from a while ago. Jisho actually lists it as the 176th most common Kanji used in newspaper.
I don’t particularly have a problem with writing it out, but a little bit of extra practice never hurts, especially with a Kanji I see as frequently as this.

[simias]

This is one of my leeches. I always mix it up with the right hand side of 認 and 務 because I learned them at the same time. In particular the 刃 versus 刀…

Of mild interest: the kun reading 解ける (to be solved; to become untied) can also be spelled 溶ける (to thaw).

The kanji is also used as phonetic component in 蟹 (crab).

[Neon_Kitsune]

I didn’t even need to click on the link to know which song the link led to.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年4月25日「木」

漢字：線
訓読み：すじ
音読み：セン

2024年4月26日「金」

漢字：果
訓読み：は.たす、は.てる、は.て
音読み：カ

メモ：Had a busy couple days, I’ll have the remaining two posted in a bit.
It was interesting to go back and look at the different readings for 「果」、as 「くだ」isn’t even among them. 「果物」is actually a special, 「熟字訓」reading where the assigned characters are only attached to the word’s meaning but not the pronunciation. Rarely the word can be read as 「かぶつ」、and the rarely-used alternative Kanji form is 「菓物」。Strange how the very first word I was introduced to using this Kanji doesn’t follow the typical readings at all.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年4月27日「土」

漢字：渇
訓読み：かわ.く
音読み：カツ

2024年4月28日「日」

漢字：乾
訓読み：かわ.く、かわ.かす、ほ.す、ひ.る、いぬい
音読み：カン、ケン

メモ：More flashcard words, and the two かわく’s.
I remember when I was first learning Japanese using Rosetta Stone and hear the て form of 「渇く」for the first time. It was so weird to hear something that sounded so similar to 「可愛い」but have a completely different meaning. Then I heard the て form of 「乾く」and became even more confused.
Fast forward over a year and a half later, I’m going back over these words in my Flashcards and they both show up in the same day. In order to try and cement the differences between the two, I figured it would be best to go over them individually and make a mental note of the differences so I can discern them easier.

[CursedKitsune]

@simias

Of mild interest: the kun reading 解ける (to be solved; to become untied) can also be spelled 溶ける (to thaw).

There are a bunch of とけるs although you mentioned the two most common ones I have seen 熔ける before (different nuance, used for smelting and stuff with metals) and I know a few others exist. There is also ほどける which can be written as 解ける (still read ほどける、not とける、which is very confusing although it is normally written in kana for this reason). On the transitive side of things there is 説く・解く・溶く which is also quite interesting.

[TehFlashBang]

Picture dump!

Previous Days

「最近忙しくなっちゃってすみません、今までアップできなかったんです。
って、それは言いたいんですけど…

とにかく、今日の漢字は… 物 っ です。

2024年5月9日「木」

漢字：物
訓読み：もの、もの-
音読み：ブツ、モツ

メモ：I’ve been working hard at improving my vocabulary through these daily characters, but sometimes it’s nice to go back to a simpler time. The only thing that tripped me up about 物 when learning it was then learning about the suffix 「者」being either 「もの」 or 「しゃ」depending on the reading.
While I have been working diligently on my vocab… my grammar studying has stagnated.
I used to try and get at least 2 new BunPro grammar points done a day, but recently I haven’t been keeping up with that goal, as I actually write out pages for every point I study now. Writing stuff down seems to help me learn, or something like that.
Lastly, I haven’t been doing much drawing as of late. I got into a rut where a certain sketch I was working on just wouldn’t look good, no matter what I did, and it’s been hard to find both time and motivation to keep working at it. Hopefully that will change here soon, and if it does, I’ll throw my sketches in at the end of the posts like usual.
I hope everyone reading this is having a good day. Keep doing your best, even if that means just completing old reviews for today.

皆さんいつも読んでくれてありがとうございます！今から一緒に頑張りましょう‼︎‼︎

[TehFlashBang]

2024年5月10日「金」

漢字：癒
訓読み：い.える、いや.す、い.やす
音読み：ユ

2024年5月11日「土」

漢字：重
訓読み：え、おも、おも.い、おも.り、おも.なう、かさ.ねる、かさ.なる
音読み：ジュウ、チョウ

メモ：One’s from a flash-card, the other was just one I stumbled upon in the wild.
I figured I’d write out 重 to help me remember the different readings, but I’m not sure that was much help to be honest. It looks like it can be broken down into 5 main readings between On’yomi and Kun’yomi, and it may not be as many as say 日、but it’s still a lot to remember.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年5月12と13日「日と月」

漢字：噌
訓読み：かまびす.しい
音読み：ソウ、ショウ、ソ

メモ：Now this is where the confusion begins.
I’m just doing my flash cards as normal, and I come across the word 「味噌」。Business as usual, I go to add the example sentence to the hint section like normal and I notice the second Kanji changes between the flash card and the editing fields.
Long story short, it seems like some font-packs automatically convert between the two forms, which greatly confused me, especially when trying to look up information regarding the one that shows up first on my flashcards, or the 「口曽」form.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年5月14日「火」

漢字：停
訓読み：と.める、と.まる
音読み：テイ

メモ：「休止」、「中止」、「停止」…
So many suspensions, so little time.
This Kanji was pretty fun to write out. I had to rush through my flashcards today due to time constraints, but i only have around 60 new cards to learn before I’ve gone through all 2000!

[TehFlashBang]

2024年5月15日「水」

漢字：隠
訓読み：かく.す、かく.し、かく.れる、よ.る
音読み：イン、オン

2024年5月16日「木」

漢字：招
訓読み：まね.く
音読み：ショウ

メモ：Done with the flashcards! Time to start making my own from words mined from reading/games. As a side note for anyone learning, I advise against playing the Persona games on the hardest difficulty. Really, this is a warning for anyone playing the Persona games, learning Japanese or not. Don’t do it. It’s not worth it.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年5月17日「金」

漢字：譲
訓読み：ゆず.る
音読み：ジョウ

2024年5月18日「土」

漢字：訪
訓読み：おとず.れる、たず.れる、と.う
音読み：ホウ

メモ：Caught back up. I really messed up my sleep schedule, rather my schedule in general these past few days. I need to get back on track, back on the track, and track down some new kanji!

[TehFlashBang]

Daily Characters

Wow. I’ve been doing this for over 6 months now. Time sure does fly when you’re not paying attention.
There have been periods (especially recently) where I haven’t been as punctual as I should have been with this thread, but I have to say I feel like I’ve really learned a lot by doing this for so long.
It’s gotten to the point where I can’t keep track of all the different Kanji I’ve gone over. I’d have to make a spreadsheet or something just to remember them all specifically now.
Moving forwards I’m probably going to take a more relaxed approach towards this project. If I repeat a character I’ve done in the past, that just means I probably needed a refresher anyways.
Let’s see if I can make it to a year!

[TehFlashBang]

Decided to switch up the format a bit. Let’s see how this works out!

Over the last 7 days, I studied the Kanji/Radical 「金」

訓読み：かね、かな-、-がね
音読み：キン、コン、ゴン

The radical itself is used often for various metals/metal-related things. By itself, it most simply means either “Gold” or “Money”.

Related Kanji

While it may seem counterproductive to learn a whole bunch of similar-looking Kanji around the same time, I’m hoping by focusing on the radicals I’ll be able to better identify them and at a glance by recognizing their individual parts and the parts that differentiate them. It’s only my first week trying this so I’ll have to see how it works!

[TehFlashBang]

Over the last 7 days, I studied the Kanji/Radical 「口」

訓読み：くち
音読み：コウ、ク

I skipped over this one while doing my body-related Kanji Stint so it felt right to come back to it now. By itself it generally just means “Mouth”, but can have a nuance of being an “Entrance”.

Related Kanji

The most difficult part of this was choosing which Kanji to go with. 「口」is such a foundational building block to many other radicals and kanji that I could’ve picked any number of other characters to go with for this week, but I tried to get a decent variety in how the radical was used in over the course of the week. The plan is also to increase in number of strokes as the week progresses, with the final day (Tuesday, weird I know) is the most “complex”.

[Gromo]

Inspired by your topic, I’ve decided to start practicing writing kana and kanji daily.

My target is to start writing diary using words and grammar I know but since I am learning Japanese just for 3 mont, my vocabulary is not good enough (just 9th level on Wanikani and completed first lesson of grammar on Bunpro today).
Also, I am better at reading kanji I see rather than getting them out of head to recall a word, but I am work8jg on it.

I need to practice kana a lot and start learning, how to write kanji I already know.

[TehFlashBang]

I’m honored to have inspired you! So far your Kanji are looking good! I would however recommend that you first memorize the proper stroke order and way of writing every kana of Hiragana first, as they’re the fundamental building blocks to every other part of the language. I know there’s some good Hiragana Charts online that you can print out and go over, I think there’s some on the Tofugu Website as well.

[TehFlashBang]

Over the last 7 days, I studied the Kanji/Radical 「彳」

訓読み：たたず.む
音読み：テキ

「行人偏」ぎょうにんべん、「彳」or the “Going Man” radical is actually a Kanji in and of itself. It appears to be archaic and not used in modern day Japanese, but I think it’s an interesting piece of knowledge.

Related Kanji

I found that when I first started working on this radical, I found it pretty hard to get the balance right. I would put the first top strokes too close to each other and the whole construction would look off. I feel that I got a lot better as the days went on. Obviously I still made mistakes here and there, but I think this was a good study, and I got a lot out of it.