Kunyomi vs. Onyomi - Know the Difference! | Reading Kanji

[@maxsjapanese]

みなさんありがとうございます😊 Thank you for watching! Maybe this video is a little bit confusing, but I tried my best to explain it :) Hope it helps!!! Thank you!

[@zyhon881]

Thank you so much. You made it so much easier to understand.

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you so much 😊

[@eltonring4544]

Super helpful explanation! ありがとうございます!

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you for your comment! I’m glad to hear that ;)

[@quietlyconfident]

Omg you are so good at explaining things, ありがとうございます。 I’m new to kanji (~60 under my belt 😅) and this video was soooo helpful for me. I’m grateful to have found your videos!!!

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you!!! It sure takes time to learn kanji and I myself learned kanji the hard way when I was a kid 😅 “How to learn kanji” is on my list for future videos, so stay tuned :)

[@pawelowi7528]

I was quite amused when I found out about all the different readings 生 has. I've really enjoyed learning to read and write kanji though, it's such a fascinating and complex system, yet it makes a lot of sense in many ways.

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you for your comment :) 生 is actually pretty crazy… 😅 I’m actually planning to make a video about the kanji 生 sometime though!

[@lucasvenanciodossantos9367]

Wonderful explanation! Actually, the best one! God Bless You man! 😊😊😊

[@peterthibault5198]

Very high quality keep up the good work!

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you so much 😊

[@ProfessorPesca]

Your presentation style is so clear and friendly. I’m excited to watch some more of your content!

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you 😊

[@pawz212]

editing is top notch and video is very concise and to the point praying youll make it big in the future, legit

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you 😊 I’m really happy to hear that!

[@natMcil]

this is so interesting. ive been slowly trying to learn chinese and japanese. encountering the kanji word tokyo 東京 it was so confusing because of multiple ways of saying the same characters. im assuming both characters together are prononounced the onyomi version (tou + kyou). but the original chinese characters are pronounced dong jing. tou sounds similar to dong, and the alternative onyomi for 京 is apparently キン which could possibly derive from jing. learning kanji seems so much more complex than learning regular chinese characters by themselves. its so cool how a language can become more and more abstracted over time

[@user-np7vk1md4f]

Interesting! Thanks for sharing, Max😊

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you for your comment ☺️

[@Jakeジェイク-u2y]

This is very helpful stuff. You have explained the nuances as to why certain Kanjis has these readings in different context.

[@jangzhang7323]

clear explanation. still confusing that kanji's don't have consistent pronunciations when used in different words.

[@pnnrodungproduction6163]

thanks for informative video sensei❤

[@hasambaranarafalimanantsoa930]

i needed this kind of video for a while, thank you so much🥹🫶

[@maxsjapanese]

I hope it helped!! Thank you for your comment :)

[@kuronotenshi]

I'm preparing for JLPT this July and I'm doing self study. Thank you for the explanation! ありがとうございます！

[@sp.arccch6268]

thanks for the help!!

[@jian4105]

Thanks, I'm really interested about the way sempai teaches us ✨✨

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you! I’m glad to hear that 😎

[@mio4698]

I'm just starting to learn kanji and it's beautiful yet kinda confusing because of all the readings, this is gonna help me so much. Thank you!!

[@princessxenicapatoc1389]

I am going to teach this to my students. Thank you very much for your explanation. This will also help me to read kanji.☺🥰

[@rajkumarthing7908]

ありがとうございます

[@AryAryAryAryAry]

Love ur vibes man! I'm studying to get my N3 in July this year, and still in the phrase of learning basic kanji.

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you! がんばってください👍

[@michinya9396]

Thank you

[@kazuharailfan.2909]

"It makes sense in Japanese" bruh thats all I need. Been stuck in this which is which quiz for few days now. Gonna apply UNChiKuKiTsui next time if I can

[@travelandexplorebd8962]

Nice video

[@LlewMadrigal]

So in learning and reading Kanji.. what we should use? Onyomi or Kunyomi?

[@dagontyrgrim2999]

kanji seems to be complikated to read correctly for the first time. why don't using hiragana for everything? ok, some words getting shorter with kanji but some of these are easier written in hiragana, i guess... example: kanji: 伯母 hiragana: おば (aunt)

[@TheRedOGRE]

Great video. Really cleared some things up for me. Also thanks for using easy kanji / ones that beginners would be familiar with. I bought a kanji workbook and was confused on when to use what reading etc. Just a question do you do paid japanese lessons, or know anyone who might? I'm looking for someone who will teach japanese / converse with but Im not sure where to look.

[@pawz212]

oh hi max!

[@maxsjapanese]

Hi 👋

[@nnnnn8173]

what about 山？sometimes it is "san" like when used behind the name of a mountain but sometimes it's "yama". When is yama used? PS I know Chinese language.

[@weekbacan682]

やま (yama) by itself is mountain.「あの山(やま)はたかいです」 “That mountain is tall”. さん (san) is connected to a mountain name. 「富士山(ふじさん)はきれいです」 “Mt. Fuji is pretty”.

[@maxsjapanese]

Good question! 〜さん is usually used for sacred mountains or mountains that are objects of faith. And 〜やま is for other mountains. This is what’s said to be the reason why we have two different ways to say “Mt. ~~”

[@ChernPlayz]

As a malaysian chinese cantonese, only some word pronounciation is just "sound" closer to chinese, not totally same, for example in the vid, old japanese ppl heard かい kai even tho in chinese it's hai. Im currently struggling with the pronounciation of kanji even tho ik the meaning of it :(, japanese is like english: "it depends... >:(" since there are *exceptions * as well, so just gotta memorize :/ Also, japanese is the 1st language that I seen numbers are so complicated, numbers suppose to be ez :( E.g. 一本（いっぽん）、一つ（ひとつ）、一日（いちにち・ついたち）

[@maxsjapanese]

Thank you for your comment! I know that most onyomi actually don’t sound very much like how they are pronounced in Chinese, but old Japanese people made the onyomi back then, so I can’t blame them 😅 When I tried to learn Chinese several years ago, I had a hard time getting the pronunciation right even though I could guess what’s written, just like you struggling with kanji 😵

[@ChernPlayz]

@@maxsjapanese chinese is hard bc of the 4 pronounciation, but once u master it is ez to pronounce since it's only 1 syllable sound for each kanji, unlike japanese where every kanji has different syllable and the pitch/accent is different e.g. 花，鼻 -> 花は、鼻は My friend noobplayswithmac(a roblox yt) who is half filipino half japanese also said to me: "i also dk y it is like that lol"

[@NoobletPatissier]

I think it’s also worth pointing out that the Chinese we are used to today probably doesn’t sound exactly like the archaic version of the language used when kanji was introduced to Japan. Add in different Chinese dialects and translation as well, and I can easily see how the sounds are vastly different to modern mandarin. Even English spoken 500 years ago sounds nothing like what we are familiar with now.

[@ChernPlayz]

@@NoobletPatissier ig that's true

[@vitomanoeli]

useful, helpful, beutiful, a lot of fuls, indeed.

[@Hotspur62]

You should teach Japanese on iTalki.

[@rubymccoy4678]

Promo-SM 🌺

[@DioBrando-dd4sx]

my brain IS NOT braining

[@anhtuyetdo1380]

I go die now 😢