【N5】Japanese Kanji 目、見、耳、止、足、正 Meanings and Writings

[@ToKiniAndy]

Why We Don't Teach Readings (yet!) As mentioned in the introduction video to this series ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHy6o4qIe96Zj9E ), it is my philosophy that it is a WASTE OF TIME to learn the readings for each kanji in isolation. I explain WHY in that video. To learn how to read kanji, I think it is best to learn WORDS that contain that kanji in the context of SENTENCES. We WILL be doing that in this series, after learning the meanings and writings for the 118 kanji in the JLPT N5 and Kanken 10 tests. So fear not! You WILL be learning how to read them in the near future. 😊

[@MimifBones]

Footprint- stomping firmly into the ground to signify stopping

[@opinions-um1qk]

With your 目and ル you can 見 around everywhere

[@GerardMenvussa]

止 Stop putting your 足 foot in your mouth, it is not 正 correct.

[@justamanwithoutamustache]

i'm gonna listen to y'all arguing with my 耳 while 休

[@yebogogaz]

Recently found your channel for Japanese. Pls pls pls don’t stop making content like this and keep going with these lessons. They are amazing! Keep going ❤

[@AlbanAwan]

Probably gonna start using 正 over the tally marks from now on.

[@annivlaflipfan9184]

The coolest kanji-teacher ever, thanks. 👍 I like your stories. 😊

[@catbjorndestroyerofworlds8108]

Hi Andy, i always watch your videos but never comment, I started learning in January and your videos really helped for a big chunk of it so far, in the past year ive made japanese friends and even got a japanese girlfriend, planning a trip there, and i just took some attempts at the N5 and passed it 3 times, lets goooo, my goal is to be at least solidly n4 before i leave for japan, thanks

[@ambarlostinthewoods3080]

Thanks andy, keep up!!!!!

[@Sun_god72]

Nice🎉

[@jacobamason]

I'm gonna have some nightmares about that Sauron eye on legs

[@tamaskarsai2072]

The eye looks like to me as a bookshelf , and so in hungarian eye is "szem" and "szemtelen" could technically mean eyeless, but it rather mean shameless and bookshelf is könyvespolc, and so behold my 目 "3 szemtelen könyvespolc" and it's 3 cus it has 3 shelves which would mean "3 shameless bookshelf".

[@Gamer-ft8yl]

I got 4 out of 5!!

[@pratham1619]

こんにちは、先生can you review minna no nihongo as it is used by a lot of learners....

[@azriell783]

I find Foot hard to remember(especially how the last two strokes are written). Then i realized Mouth is an O, the next two strokes (that start Stop) make an F, and the final two strokes are a fallen over T. FOOT. The square head on top makes it look like a robot. A Foot Bot with a large foot on the bottom, because it's a Foot Bot.

[@samiru6521]

That's a minecraft eye

[@Requiemes]

hell yeah new kanjis

[@VtuberCl1ps]

Completely random but I wonder if Andy likes lord of the rings

[@ToKiniAndy]

Super random. Not at all, obviously.

[@sahasraillindra]

Hi, what are the resources you used to make in this video? Is there a pdf with all the radicals and details? Which resource do you use for the historical evolution of kanji?

[@ToKiniAndy]

I mostly use Japanese kanji dictionaries and websites like kanjitisiki.com/busyu/ and ja.wiktionary.org/ to research. Sorry, I usually include the links in the video itself, but forgot them on the history sections. With that said, I've created this order, and part choices and stories and everything on my own, based on my wife and my research.

[@sahasraillindra]

@@ToKiniAndy Thank you.are there any websites using English for radicals?

[@ToKiniAndy]

@@sahasraillindra Unfortunately not many with information like this, but jisho.org lists the official radicals.

[@sahasraillindra]

I’m looking for something like a guide that’s a bit more detailed? If I’m not mistaken, there are 214 radicals?

[@ToKiniAndy]

@@sahasraillindra sorry, I don’t know anything like that in English.

[@Jay-bm9mg]

Hey, will this series help with compound words and other aspects of our Japanese journey? Not just kanji? I am fine with learning kanji since I need to but I was wondering if you will help with other stuff.

[@ToKiniAndy]

Yup!

[@Jay-bm9mg]

​@@ToKiniAndyありがとうございます！

[@md.shafayethossain9141]

These Stories are pretty hard to remember

[@tuftedcoma1842]

I love these videos but can you PLEASE put the on yomi and kunyomi readings in the video please. I hate reading and knowing the meaning but not the pronunciation. Or not being able to look up the actual kanji. Thanks.

[@ToKiniAndy]

Absolutely not. We'll be covering words a bit later on for all the kanji we've learned which will teach you how to read them. Not including on and kun when learning writing and meaning is intentional, and I won't be backing down. That means that some people will need to use something else if they don't want to wait for the series to finish (or don't want the deck off our site), but I'm sticking by my kanji learning philosophy. Sorry!

[@yebogogaz]

Andy also explains this in his initial video, why he doesn’t include it. Trust the sensei and enjoy the process

[@lilyofluck371]

He's not doing it on _purpose_

[@tejash6609]

Can some tell furigana for all these kanji

[@sakiwataru]

kinda slow tbh

[@Sun_god72]

Could have been more help if u had just written kunyoumi reading

[@PURE.EVIL.]

An educated man usually knows 20.000 words of his native language. How is it possible to know all these words in kanji? How the Japanese, Chinese etc. learn them?

[@yebogogaz]

Recently found your channel for Japanese. Pls pls pls don’t stop making content like this and keep going with these lessons. They are amazing! Thank you ❤