The origin of interesting kanji | Learn Japanese

[@stevenbedoya9920]

Chinese writing system is so amazing that Japanese fell in love with it. Thanks for sharing.

[@Neyobe]

Lmaoo

[@stevenbedoya9920]

@@Neyobe What's so funny?

[@Neyobe]

Oh sorry I just said lmao because of the ‘fell in love’ as if they were tv show characters 😂 sorry

[@stevenbedoya9920]

@@Neyobe Oh I see :)

[@石黒明子-s7s]

爆笑wwW

[@charlesrodneymorrisonday4631]

" kokoro " is my favorite Kanji. ❤

[@toukawisteria327]

Became mine after watching hunter x hunter

[@Chaoblahippo]

Mine is 器

[@bernna5892]

My favorite is 情

[@matheusmunizduarte]

Metalanguage

[@p-tw]

-My favorite is 性- (×

[@akeem2983]

It's kinda creepy that 心 represents real human heart

[@austinsmith5782]

A lot of character etymologies are like that. For example, 沈's etymology originally depicted some sort of cattle being submerged/drowned in water, which gives it the definition of "to submerge, to drown". In the old days, this was a ritual that occurred in order to provide offerings for local deities. Also, 死's etymology depicts that of a human laying amongst human bones/remains, which gives it a connotation of "to die".

[@szecr]

@@austinsmith5782 wtf

[@cottagearts8467]

No, if thats kokoro then thats a the kanji for heart as in love heart

[@austinsmith5782]

@@cottagearts8467 The OP was talking about its original oracle bone script pictographic description, not its glossed meaning

[@OrangeC7]

Perhaps I'm not giving people from ages past enough credit, but would they have known what a heart looked like back then? I suppose what's depicted in the video probably isn't a completely biologically accurate picture, but I was quite surprised when I saw how realistic it looked, at least to me.

[@minhhoanguyen7388]

The word "Sword" ( 刀 ) above the word "Heart" ( 心 ). The sword on the heart creates a word that means endure, patience ( 忍 ).

[@bestdadoftheyear7181]

Oooooh soo its those two words combined...i can see it

[@minhhoanguyen7388]

Yup, bro. Those are some of the interesting things about hieroglyphs :D

[@minhhoanguyen7388]

@@SirDolly ?.

[@Doonarte]

The readings are: Kun, しのぶ and on, ニン

[@kefir321]

man, i love kanji

[@bradenecklund6863]

You keep making videos so quickly I have yet to take notes on the last 3! かんぱい！

[@arpitchoudhary2821]

Chads don't need to worry about stuff like notes 😆

[@bradenecklund6863]

@@arpitchoudhary2821 but this is not true, any Chad or aspiring Chad knows that they need to do what must be done. If taking notes helps in the process of learning a language, I will do it.

[@OrangeC7]

@@bradenecklund6863 Spoken like a true Brad

[@chaonimation9586]

せんぱい?

[@bradenecklund6863]

@@chaonimation9586 What?

[@jngganliu5437]

心の二番目の成り立ちのところで下心が出てしまいました

[@うぴ]

… …ちn((殴))

[@カミカミしたら噛み噛み]

​@@うぴそれ以上は言っても良いぞ

[@nobodyeverinhistory]

Logographic writing systems are the ultimate example of the "oversimplified logo" meme.

[@KochijaLanguageDiary]

This is cool! When I attended Chinese school we learned some of these also Although I've always thought that some characters really look nothing like their origins 😂

[@Neyobe]

Yeahhhhh

[@유진-e1q]

1. 볼 견(見) 2. 마음 심(心) 3. 칼 도(刀) 4. 문 문(門) 5. 설 립(立)

[@ЖекаИванов-ш5б]

I'm impressed that ancient people were aware of how a human heart really looks like. Let's not imagine where did they get this knowledge from

[@foxymetroid]

We all know where they got this information from, though meat-eating societies didn't necessarily need to cut open humans to know what a heart looked like.

[@johnnytomaz679]

I'm Brazilian and your videos are so interesting! Thank you for put the meaning of the kanji in portuguese in the video!

[@軍鶏時ラナ]

先生「たくみ先生！1番難しい成り立ちを教えてください！」

[@kitsu6010]

i love to see you writing and placing those translation not only in english ;)

[@cidth]

Grato por ter em português também!

[@MarkyTeriyakiShorts]

1:08 心 kinda sus

[@spLiu75]

古代人、心臓の形を知っているということは解剖しとったって事になるよなぁ

[@12serenab5d]

Hello! I love your videos, learning something new is a good topic.. Thank you. 🔰❤️

[@kimsas7432]

شكرا على الترجمة العربية 💜🇸🇾

[@lariaaaaysseverna]

love Syria from China

[@とんがり-s2y]

皿（dish） 血（cracked dish → blood）

[@Schinshikss]

Well in actual fact "血" originally was "a drop of offering in a dish" and therefore "blood". Now in retrospect it could very well mean "alcohol" instead....

[@とんがり-s2y]

A cracked dish means blood because it injures your finger.

[@brylchristiansario8527]

@@とんがり-s2y or it could be both

[@とんがり-s2y]

@@brylchristiansario8527 The shape of the 「血」 is a broken dish, but the meaning is blood

[@brylchristiansario8527]

@@とんがり-s2y ik that, but sometimes pictures have more than one meaning

[@deegloss]

Heart kinda looks like نار, which means "fire"

[@deegloss]

It's less obvious in typed form but if you see it handwritten then it looks the same

[@pyaephyo601]

1:09 Looks like...mmm.. a Heart.

[@jaydoublegee2831]

Please more. Thank you

[@evie5375]

when my japanese teacher explained 見　to me, i thought it was really weird and cool! because of that i have never forgotten that kanji.

[@バナナ猫]

0:08 人の成り立ちかと思った

[@caryv9624]

So cute!!!

[@Yohann_Rechter_De-Farge]

Amazing!

[@chuggingitup]

actually the first one is more like this. the legs in Japanese kanji mean "support", they don't literally mean "legs". so Eyes + Legs (support) is see, because your eyes support sight. the way you explained it is somewhat confusing so i clarified it

[@galactic-hamster7043]

Funny how the character for heart originally looked like a heart-

[@contosdocaio7482]

Como é homen, mulher ,flor e casa em Kanji ?

[@fan7702]

Home：家 宀It is related to the room 豕pig In ancient times, people needed to raise livestock at home women：女 flower：花 sorry, I can't comment in ancient words

[@contosdocaio7482]

@@fan7702 wow thank you 👍😁

[@ronritekinamatigai]

ぜひ西夏文字のビデオもしてください

[@angelamariereyes2142]

がんばってください

[@ABCDE-y4t]

3:05 쇼

[@花月-q5n]

쇼 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@abenschutzerabenschutzer2695]

Oh no my dirty mind.Stand second form . 03:05

[@jaimev.duendedegyg2254]

Can you write the IPA symbols?

[@jaydoublegee2831]

Please teach me all kanji. ❤️

[@b6b5k]

門そのままw

[@timondimare1976]

someone help me. are these like ways to remember the kanji or is this actually how the kanji evolved?

[@jorgeenriquemedina5638]

Kanjis were, mostly, borrowed from China, where they are called Hanzi. Most Hanzi began as pictograms, like the ones here, and slowly evolved to resemble less and less what they originally depicted

[@trufflefur]

tye first one is a drawing, the second one is part of its evolution. Search for oracle bone script, those are the second characters

[@brylchristiansario8527]

@@trufflefur are those in oracle bone script? Cause i thought they were in seal script

[@trufflefur]

@@brylchristiansario8527 Hmmm you're right, I believe he mixed up oracle bone script with seal script. I say this becase the head of the man in "to see" reminded me heavily of oracle bone script and thus I thought it was that for sure. He mixed up stuff ig

[@austinsmith5782]

They are from oracle bone script. The characters that transferred from oracle bone to bronze script remained roughly the same, and it wasn't until the Qin-Han dynasties that the characters became more "simplified" and "standardized" down from their archaic forms. Seal script, 篆书, originated in the mid Han dynasty and the "eye" form looked a lot like 見 already at that point.

[@tayuriv]

how did they know what a heart looks like?

[@chuggingitup]

scientists, autopsies back then

[@toukawisteria327]

Do you remember what was the first Kanji that you learned? Mine was 水

[@mmk9480]

Mine was 火 😱

[@35教官]

mine was 幹

[@Chaoblahippo]

Mine was 田

[@お邪魔します-p8o]

一

[@Hibirikana]

mine was 鉄腕、for Astro Boy lol

[@0901suyo]

お手本です。

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目＋ル＝見

[@chuggingitup]

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[@marukochqn]

低評価押してる人は字が綺麗すぎて頭がおかしくなったんだな

[@carlalazzari268]

🌸🌸🌸Thank you🌸🌸🌸👌💋

[@litesikio]

Como eles sabiam um formato do coração quer dizer que eles abriram as pessoas?

[@trufflefur]

guerras

[@MutohMech]

Deviam abrir cadáver

[@muhammadshahzad1457]

Hello! I like your videos and calligraphy. But can you write this 贝扎德 and this 貝扎德 please! If you don't bother. 🖊

[@muhammadshahzad1457]

If you wrote it. Please share it with me. Thanks

[@grooterthe7461]

@@muhammadshahzad1457 Is 貝扎德 your name?

[@thecartoonsemotion]

Why not in Spanish sub?

[@Athenas_Owl]

Cool, give my ''kokoro'' please.

[@pepol3264]

Ты знаещ все языки???

[@cybergaming3919]

Miru tights

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