Daily Stroke Order Practice

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月5日「金」

漢字：教
Kun: おし.える、おそ.わる
On: キョウ

2024年1月6日「土」

漢字：育
Kun: そだ.つ、そだ.ち、そだ.てる、はぐく.む
On: イク

メモ：In an effort to reset my release schedule of these, today will be a double feature. Both of these Kanji were taken from a word I recently played on The Shiritori Thread since I needed two of them and since I was playing it in a word game, I should know how to write it properly.

Today is Saturday, which usually means my Bi-Weekly Review, but I’m going to be postponing it due to my schedule being a bit busy right now. I’ll still be making sure to go back and rewrite the kanji I’ve been learning!

@imsamuka

I need to take something off my chest…

Bonk

Seems like someone needs some Daily Order Practice…

[Pablunpro]

Nice Stroke Order practice, as always!

序に, you could continue with the second part of the song…

とにかく、良い土曜日を

[TehFlashBang]

@Pablunpro

序に, you could continue with the second part of the song…

では！

2024年1月7日「日」

漢字：死
Kun: し.ぬ、し.に-
On: シ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：I promise I’m not cursing anyone, writing 死 down so many times…
Researching this Kanji actually led me to find a Wikipedia page on Ritsuryō, or 律令、 a historical legal system used in Feudal Japan that was based on the Philosophy of Confucianism and Chinese Legalism. Informative read for anyone interested.
死 (shi) was the most severe of the 5 Ritsuryō punishments, being either death by hanging or decapitation.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月8日「月」

漢字：刑
Kun: N/A
On: ケイ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Nothing too groundbreaking to report today. I do find it interesting that both characters of 死刑 are 6 strokes each, and Kanji without a specified Kun’yomi reading always intrigue me, but with this, the Song is completed.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月9日「火」

漢字：始
Kun: はじ.める、はじ.まる
On: シ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Maybe I should’ve used this as my first practice character…
Any Kanji with the 女 radical in it automatically becomes a significant challenge for me, which is proof that I need more practice on spacing it out properly. Often times they will come out looking too squashed, or too wide. Getting it just right will end up being a project I’m sure.

[Pablunpro]

@TehFlashBang

Maybe I should’ve used this as my first practice character…

Or this one: 初めまして!

The 女 radical sure is difficult to master. We had that conversation in マットさん’s thread (see this entry and the following):

本日の文字 - Today's Character

珍しさそうです。 Even the sentence itself refers to this rareness, この時代に滅多に見えない! ところが, of all the kanjis that make up the name of the novel, I find 女 most difficult to get right. @matt_in_mito さん, would you consider to add it up to your list?

頑張って！

[TehFlashBang]

@Pablunpro

Or this one: 初めまして!

Good idea!

2024年1月10日「水」

漢字：初
Kun: はじ.め、はつ、うい-、-そ.める、-ぞ.め
On: ショ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Interestingly, this Kanji shares a number of uses with yesterday’s Kanji. A variety of words can be written using either, like 初めて and 始めて、始まり and 初まり、as well as 初めに and 始めに。Just make sure you don’t use 始 in any 「はつ」readings, like 初恋 and 初耳。I’m also not quite sure the differences in nuance between the two when used for the same word, if anyone knows and would like to share I’d be happy to learn!

[Pablunpro]

Hi!

I think the nuance has to do with ‘first time’ (初) and ‘begin, start’ (始). You say ‘初めまして’ to someone you meet for the first time (初恋, first love; 初耳, first time you hear something) but you would say ‘始めましょう’ to start something (a class, a game,…). Thus the construction ‘[ます stem]+始める’ to say you start doing something, e.g. 遊び始める, start playing.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月11日「木」

漢字：終
Kun: お.わる、おわ.る、お.える、つい、つい.に
On: シュウ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：What comes after the start? And no, I’m not planning on ending with this Kanji either
I messed up a bit on the example kanji next to the full-sized box, but I made up for it with the rest I drew afterwards.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月12日「金」

漢字：了
Kun: N/A
On: リョウ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Another similar Kanji, with a general meaning of “Complete” or “Finish”, and doesn’t seem to have a Kun’yomi reading either. A very simple character, but it is still important to be able to space it out properly, especially when written in conjunction with other Kanji, in Jukugo constructions.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月13日「土」

漢字：練
Kun: ね
On: レン
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

2024年1月14日「日」

漢字：習
Kun: なら
On: シュウ、ジュ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Double feature because I was late to post yesterday’s Kanji. I had it drawn out yesterday, just didn’t manage to post it until today.
Taken from another word I played in the Shiritori Thread, 練習 is definitely something I need to do more of.

[matt_in_mito]

I thought I’d give this an attempt, too.

[Lutabanga]

Guess I’ll join in for this one as well!

[TehFlashBang]

@matt_in_mito

I thought I’d give this an attempt, too.

These look great!

@Lutabanga

Guess I’ll join in for this one as well!

Great work!

It’s so cool to me that 3 different people with the same set of instructions will create 3 different pieces. Even though we all drew the same characters, there are slight differences across everyone’s characters. Thank you for getting some 練習 in with me!

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月15日「月」

漢字：唇
Kun: くちびる
On: シン
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Speaking of 練習、I was working on one of my Anki decks recently and realized I’m still not quite confident with a number of anatomy-related Kanji. So I figured I would go on a body part-related streak for this thread. Any recommendations would be wonderful, for uncommon Kanji or even 熟語 compounds for parts of the human body that don’t get much love (like 烏啄骨、or Coracoid, played by @SoreWaMaichiru in the Shiritori thread a little while back) are welcome!

[matt_in_mito]

ないす

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月16日「火」

漢字：顔
Kun: かお
On: ガン
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：I really gotta start bringing my white-out with me more often.
At 18 strokes, this is the highest stroke-count Kanji I’ve done in a while. While it seems like it would be tough, I actually had a good time writing this one out. The way the character is structured leaves a lot of room for error, and isn’t as unforgiving as symbols like 警 or 鼻 that I’ve done in the past.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月17日「水」

漢字：頭
Kun: あたま、かしら、かぶり
On: トウ、ズ、ト
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Quite similar to 顔、today’s character was easy to write out. Both contain the radical 頁 so the biggest difficulty between the two is remembering which is which.
I also decided to go back and write out every Kanji that I’ve done so far on this thread based only on one of the meanings of each Kanji. Below is a picture of that for anyone interested.

Self-Quiz

87%, or 47/54 Kanji correct, with only 2 completely forgotten at the time of writing. While I did do a little bit of a review by making the list of all the meanings, I think this is pretty good. If I can keep this percentage of Kanji remembered with everything I learn, I imagine I’ll be doing pretty well later down the line.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月18日「木」

漢字：耳
Kun: みみ
On: ジ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

2024年1月19日「金」

漢字：目
Kun: め、ま
On: モク、ボク
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：Another daily double because I was busy yesterday!
To be honest, I didn’t actually know the proper stroke order for 耳 before going over it for one of these lessons. I’m glad I finally learned it, as the “correct” order is a lot easier than the way I was previously doing it.
I also chose 目 because it’s simple, and It’s all focused on the 顔 and 頭 for now.
Since I’ve previously done 鼻、I will be skipping it this time around.

[TehFlashBang]

2024年1月20日「土」

漢字：脳
Kun: N/A
On: ノウ、ドウ
Jisho Page and WaniKani Page

メモ：By hand trembles… writing this Kanji!
Because I’m not entirely sure I trust the 「のうずる」reading from Jisho, we’re going with WaniKani’s readings for a bit and putting “N/A” for the Kun’yomi.
I think I did a pretty good job on Today’s Character, but it does remind me a lot of 胸… Maybe whoever first penned 脳 had 胸 on the mind?