Daily Stroke Order Practice

[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.

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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.