All Kanji Radicals and their Meanings

[@SarahMoonJapanese]

*This video is a reupload from 2018.

[@antoniocasias5545]

Playlists: go *_brrrrr_* Me: BAAAHHH 😱

[@marxiewasalittlegirl]

It's still good

[@YouNeverKnowWhoIsWatching]

I thought it looks familiar. I started studying Japanese back in 2018, but for personal reasons have to stop for awhile. Now I'm back at it. I'm glad this video showed up in my feed again. I'm trying to put together all my favorite channels again so I can pick up where I left off.👍

[@fran3ro]

8:14 note that the "earth" radical has it's base longer than the top horizontal stroke while the "samurai" radical has the top horizontal stroke longer than the base horizontal stroke.

[@Allthesepseudonyms]

The dry "isn't that fun?" is my entire experience with kanji. 👌🏻

[@danielantony1882]

Maybe you shouldn't learn Japanese then.

[@judeiam]

​@@danielantony1882how encouraging

[@mrpenis3625]

@@danielantony1882 people have different opinions on japanese and some have to learn it weather they like it or not, also the person was just making a joke.

[@sakesaurus]

​@@danielantony1882 Strange you say that. Even native japanese speakers find kanji difficult. For them it's hard not to care about japanese, they do tke pride in their language. You're boring, the special kind of boring.

[@IDKwhattoputhere35]

@@mrpenis3625your name is a joke 😂

[@connormchugh8456]

I had found radicals and this list online a while ago but i just never quite internalized it until this funny, informative video! Thank you for your teaching!

[@nickname5447]

This video was so helpful! I used it to help take notes, and it's already helping me decipher the meaning of new kanji! Thank you so much Sarah!

[@traxikscifi8105]

Hi! Thank you very much i have learned the radicals years ago and was just hopping to find something like this here on you tube... very helpfull. ありがとうございました。

[@spiderondrugs6025]

Arigatou kudasai?

[@funniartistguy]

Arigatou Gozaimashita.

[@SangeetaSinghJAYSHREERAM]

​@@spiderondrugs6025 bro what???

[@YouNeverKnowWhoIsWatching]

👋 First time here. Thanks for making the exact video I was looking for.😌 I have been studying with Remembering The Kanji(book), which is very thorough but a lot of it seems unuseful at my "N5 level". I'm more interested in being able to read and understand at a glance the annoying all 2000 kanji right now. Someone in my study group said they memorized the radicals and it tremendously improved their ability to understand written kanji even if they couldn't necessarily pronounce it. Congratulations on your new place.👍

[@egs-zs8-127]

This is a perfect video for learning kanji. I wish there were more videos like yours!

[@piotrwojtaszek4295]

Brilliant video, it's not easy to basically read a dictionary aloud in an engaging fashion, nicely done

[@MrPretoriaS]

True. But that doesn't change the fact that it was the same as reading a dictionary

[@o7juan]

I wish you can make another video like this, I love the examples you provided with some kanji they were very helpful

[@carissahighley]

Well you are just absolutely prescious 😍😍 and I LOVED this break down!

[@marinalopez3155]

Thank you for this video!! I looked at it completely! 🎉 great job❤

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

Not every radical in a kanji is for the meaning. Sometimes, it's for the sound. Take the kanji for language! We got speech, makes sense, you're going to speak while doing a language, we got mouth, which also makes sense because you move your mouth while doing a language too. But then there's. . . five. Which doesn't make sense, but will once you realize that language and five are pronounced the same way, it starts to make much more sense!

[@TheStruggler0]

crazy video dawg... dayum!

[@usamanasher3900]

If you want to know the difference between "Earth" and "Samurai" the kanji for Samurai has the upper horizontal stroke LONGER than the lower horizontal stroke. Earth, on the other hand, (which actually refers to soil rather than the planet) has the the upper horizontal stroke SHORTER than the lower horizontal stroke.

[@reeinvented914]

@2:31 doesn't that kanji mean bright? 明日 is tha kanji that means tomorrow.

[@juvellianthebee]

Huge help, thank you!

[@proQUEEN-b5m]

the best video i found while earning japanese

[@pitekamonu]

what's your level

[@proQUEEN-b5m]

@@pitekamonu well its not that high 😔 its N5🥺

[@pitekamonu]

@@proQUEEN-b5m you know what's crazy though, the time you need to reach N5 in Japanese is the same time you could reach B1 in French I find it very difficult to read anything in N5, I'm not gonna stop until I hit N4 or maybe N3

[@pitekamonu]

i will be able to read manga then, that will be fun. The only thing separating me from that is 1000 hours🥺

[@proQUEEN-b5m]

@@pitekamonu wish yud be able to do so i have to pass japanese exam in just 3 months

[@maelstrom258]

"sell words" me: IT'S A VOICE ACTOR, IT'S A VOICE ACTOR "to read" also me: oh.

[@hackem3928]

First time here too, I love how precise you are. When I want to learn about kanji, that's how accurate I want to get. Like, different ways to call the radical "hito/ningen/etc" depending on which side of the kanji they've been squished

[@YouNeverKnowWhoIsWatching]

13:55 the _radical_ took a *toke* 🚬 and lost a *stroke* . ✍I'm dying! Lol!🤣 Ahem, sorry. Back to studying.🤓 Now I shall never forget the kokoro radicals.

[@artist172]

and this will be played about 1k more times. XD ありがとう

[@harpsicord16]

hi! first of all, this video is so helpful, thanks for making it!!! c: im making an anki deck to practice radicals and i just wanted to make sure - is it ok if i use the pronunciations in this video for my deck? (audio is super helpful for me, and i couldn't find any other downloadable stuff online)

[@pitekamonu]

may I ask you why? Is it just for kanji mnemonics? Wouldn't it be better to just read instead?

[@harpsicord16]

sorry, what do you mean by read? like- the radical readings? audio's really helpful when learning a language (at least for me) so i know if im pronouncing something right/wrong and i don't wanna learn to pronounce something the wrong way!

[@pitekamonu]

@@harpsicord16 here's how I understood: you are creating an anki deck with those radicals in the video and will use the pronunciations of those radicals for your deck. "Why learn those radicals if you can learn words, is it a long-strategy goal of your to learn those radicals, if yes, then please enlighten me" is what I tried to convey with my reply to your comment

[@harpsicord16]

oh! yea,, so im learning jp using mnemonics, so i want to take the radicals that make up a kanji and use/make mnemonics as a way to remember/memorize it, if that makes sense

[@nicholas8367]

14:31 is lovely

[@mohammedrostam4894]

ありがとう this is very helpful

[@tomasvalent4405]

The radicals without given position can be anywhere in the kanji?

[@medalkingslime4844]

Lmao @ Quern. Underrated benefit of learning kanji/radicals-you learn some obscure English words. I had this exact same reaction to quaff/呑.

[@johnwarosa2274]

As a Russian I really enjoyed this wonderful picture of our presidents on 14:31

[@ivansiio4355]

can't wait to use the pig's head kanji !

[@graced150]

I think it's in midori and i'm confused XD

[@greatkumar4085]

pig's head? Reminds me of innosuke. 😂😂

[@alexds8452]

Why did you move to Seattle? & Where did you come from?

[@vanessameow1902]

14:31 My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.

[@scarystoriestotellinthepar8589]

Omg I want to go to sleep now

[@MoneyHungryRito]

My day was made and my happiness has skyrocketed

[@dawnnayak2776]

The radical column is not very clear. I wish it was.

[@chandrawhite408]

Couldn't keep from saying something 自転車 (jitensha) is bicycle, not car

[@privatelaughter4654]

This video was totes radical!

[@graced150]

I am just starting my kanji journey and the radicals I found in midori were thread and pigs head... I'm wrong right or is there a relationship there I don't see.

[@yalnayal]

would've been nice to have examples next to them and explaining why they matter (if they do at all). Other than that, thank you for this video!

[@Sn4rbs]

Nobody talking a out how the kanji for black means "burning village" TT, lmao what tf xD

[@danielantony1882]

In case you didn't figure out, a burning village is a dark thing in their eyes.

[@professorracc.9780]

knowing radicals makes it at least so that kanji dont just look random, like you can remember, ok that kanji has these three parts that I know together ... the scary thing for me though is that kanji =/= words, so if you learn kanji you arent even really learning vocab per se

[@StaceAyyy]

Weeee hello from Olympia!!!

[@minaguji]

Isn’t the word small “chiisai “in japanese

[@eljaminlatour6633]

小さい(chiisai) is the kunyomi(Japanese reading) of the word for "small", which came from ちょっと("chotto", a little bit) and ちび("chibi", small and round). However, its onyomi(Chinese reading) is "shou" which comes from Middle Chinese "sjewX".

[@minaguji]

@@eljaminlatour6633 thanks you so much!

[@eljaminlatour6633]

@@minaguji no problem.

[@lospollos5303]

How important is the reading I’m new to Japanese but I studied some radicles and it seems like they never keep the same reading next to other kanji

[@SarahMoonJapanese]

It depends on what you want to do with Japanese (do you want to be able to read books? Understand TV? talk to people?) In any case yeah, radicals themselves don't really lend pronunciation to their kanji. They are great clues, though, for what the kanji means.

[@lospollos5303]

@@SarahMoonJapanese talking and reading is my main goal

[@eljaminlatour6633]

Depends on what kind of Kanji it is. Like whether it's a phono-semantic compound or not, like 鳩("hato", pigeon/dove) which is a compound of phonetic 九("ku", 9) and semantic 鳥("tori", bird). The onyomi of 九(ku) became the onyomi for 鳩(ku) which could represent the cooing of the pigeon.

[@smailifeiss]

min 2６:17,　辛い、 からい　is not "bitter" but "spicy".

[@eljaminlatour6633]

It depends on the context, according to Wiktionary, 辛い("karai", spicy) does mean "bitter" in the context of alcohol.

[@takirajogandosemedicao]

hell...

[@leftoblique]

Welcome to our fair city!

[@Jamal-zv6lr]

WHAT the sigma, Thank you very much! OHio :^)

[@CianjurAnte]

That Putin and Trump was gay

[@andrewprahst2529]

The most boomer weeaboo I've ever seen

[@eljaminlatour6633]

Did you know that Kanji comes from the Chinese language? Also, Japanese terminology influenced the Chinese language in return, like the Japanese word 電車("densha", train) was borrowed by the Chinese language as "dianche".

[@daisukideshou]

great video but 13:55 feels sus