Introduction to KANJI RADICALS, Kanji 10

[JapaneseLily]

The different parts of Japanese Kanji are called RADICALS (roots) or 部首 (ぶしゅ) in Japanese:

• 部 (ぶ) meaning a group or part
• 首 (しゅ) is the word for neck, also meaning chief and something or great importance.

Almost every complex-looking kanji character can be broken down into several components and radicals.
A kanji's radical is its most important component, so it can sometimes give hints as to the kanji's meaning.

Does this look complicated?

It's the opposite: learning about radicals can help you memorize Kanji much easier!
In this video, you'll learn how this works.

 

[mdchachi]

Very interesting. I never learned this except at a very superficial level. I heard that often kanji has a "meaning" component and a "pronunciation" component. Is that true? And, if so, is there a way to know which is which?

 

[JapaneseLily]

Very interesting. I never learned this except at a very superficial level. I heard that often kanji has a "meaning" component and a "pronunciation" component. Is that true? And, if so, is there a way to know which is which?

Thank you very much for your message. You are right. For example Kanji 日本語...日 the Sun or daytime、本 principal, the base、語 language..so this is the language of the Rising Sun country (Japan)
The last kanji 語 The meaning is LANGUAGE but now you see that there is the kanji 五 (the pronunciation is GO, actually the menaning is FIVE but in this case we pronunce the whole kanji GO, because there is this part 五 .
In this way KANJI has a menaning but sometimes pronunciation component (in this case 五) is used too.
There are so many cases like this . Some components are used to pronunce like this example. And Radicals have some specific meanings in many cases, for example 言(ごんべん) has the meaning.....Language or something to do with words

 

[mdchachi]

In this way KANJI has a meaning but sometimes pronunciation component (in this case 五) is used too.
There are so many cases like this . Some components are used to pronounce like this example.

I just discovered a very interesting looking book about this called The Kanji Code. I haven't read it yet but I want to try it out.
Even though Japanese don't learn the phonetic way of learning kanji I think they learn it naturally.


Amazon product ASIN B07N6NPKM3

 

[JapaneseLily]

I just discovered a very interesting looking book about this called The Kanji Code. I haven't read it yet but I want to try it out.
Even though Japanese don't learn the phonetic way of learning kanji I think they learn it naturally.

I just discovered a very interesting looking book about this called The Kanji Code. I haven't read it yet but I want to try it out.
Even though Japanese don't learn the phonetic way of learning kanji I think they learn it naturally.


Amazon product ASIN B07N6NPKM3

I didn´t know the existance of this book. It can be interesting