The radicals don't always connect in the sense of meaning such as 頭 head has beans which is thought to make sense by some because heads are beans but it is infact 豆 sound used for the note of onyomi 化可咼加 having ka reading as the radical Seen in 花 for example most reading can be done by learning the 140 phonetic components which often give the reading at an instant With exceptions
Finally, a short and yet very informative lesson about kanji. Not like other youtubers who take 20 minutes to explain something that can be explained in 5.
sometimes i can’t believe i’m doing all of this just to understand and pronounce the “alphabet”! i haven’t even gotten to grammar and vocabulary yet. i could learn spanish, french, and another language in the time i’m taking to learn japanese. but it’s so worth it!!
As a chinese person who can’t differentiate them for the life of me, THANK YOU, you helped me in ways i never thought was possible, ありがとうございますとても役に立ちました。🤍🙏
subbed. i just finished with learning katakana and hiragana. i was about to start learning kanji... then i found out about radicals... then i found out about kunyomi and onyomi... and now okurigana... wew
I'm a lot more interested in learning Japanese than I was when I tried to learn German and Italian. It makes me more motivated... but oh my gosh, it's so overwhelming. I'm only just starting on kanji and it really feels like I'll never start learning how to speak. It makes my brain so tired, trying to learn it 😭
I understand how you feel! Kanji takes years to learn, even as a Japanese native person! As long as you study 1 or 2 kanji characters a day, you'll be setting yourself on a good schedule. My recommendation for you is to search up "N5 kanji" and start memorizing those. Once that's done, you can move onto N4, N3, and so forth!
ohh, the more i watch videos about Japanese, the more i worry that I never will be fluent in that. at least i stay motivated to learn. and i just want to find a friend just like me, who is also a beginner and learn together, but there is no one(
The Kanji for depression has, until now, honestly given me depression just by looking at it... I was spooked... But now that I know that I can remember the radicals, I might actually have a chance of remembering it... Tho, Ill put it off until I get used to Kanji by remembering the simple ones first... Thanks for the lesson!
I appreciate how you take your time to explain everything! And I appreciate how you broke it down into sections and included important details. Now I know that I learn better when the teacher (or 先生) doesn’t rush, and gives detailed explanations!
I actually thought I wouldn't understand any of this before clicking but I found this very useful and thank you for your help! I downloaded Kanji learning app and I forgot what was Kuyomi and Onyomi and I was struggling to understand which one to use!
Amazing!!!!! Loved this video, really helped because I'm quite a visual/audio learner so this has really helped me understand the onyomi/kunyomi thing. I've made so much progress with your resources ;A; Thank you!
best video ever. thank you soo much for mentioning juubako and yutou yomi.ive been searching about that but none of the videos mentioned it. hontoni arigato!! can you please make a video about the juubako and yutou yomi pls, onegaishimasu🙏🥺
thank you for the comment. Like I mentioned in the video, it's not necessary to know kanji radicals as they are simply a pattern you will notice while you study kanji. Just focus on memorizing the kanji in the N4 kanji list which is available to you on the internet. Good luck!
Do you mean which graphic? You should use a kana chart that shows you the proper columns and rows in Japanese, perhaps with the romaji readings on it as well.
When you learn English (boss lvl 1) : hmm, I became fluent and I bet I can learn anything. Everyone says japanese is difficult... Psss I bet I can learn it in no time. Hiragana (boss lvl 2): easy Katakana (boss lvl 2.5): wtf all those people are dummies, this is a joke Kanji (boss lvl 100000): Sensei was right all along... Also respect for all the kids in japan who have to learn all of this in school
Imma dead , i'm actually first learning grammar , so conjugation wasnt tough for me , it was at the beginning lmao . I dont wanna go to kanji man 🙂🙂 . Btw ! Can u please make a video of n5 radicals . I mean , i hope u understand wht i mean bcoz i dont. Sorry and thankyou . Nice video !
OMG TT THANK YOU SO MUCH. I FINALLY UNDERSTAND TT. i have a question. sometimes a kanji has more than 1 kunyomi/ onyomi right? how do i know which one to use? (if it doesnt make sense, heres an example. so the onyomi of the kanji tree is boku AND/OR moku, which one of the two should i use? or the kunyomi is ki AND/OR ko, which one should i use out of the two?)
There is no rule of knowing when to use the onyomi and kunyomi. You simply have to know the word by memorization. Kind of like how in english we have homophones like “Allowed” and “Aloud”. There’s no rule to the spelling but it’s just written the way it is.
Hello Kensei. I just started learning japanese last week (After starting with your first lesson) and I'm done memorising kana (hiragana and katakana with Dakuon, Handakuon and Yoon variants). What do you think are the next steps in my learning journey?
Say two Kanji are next to each other in a sentence with hiragana in it. Since it is a compound, but still surrounded with hiragana, do you use the Onyomi or Kunyomi pronunciation? I hope that question makes sense lol.
In most cases, you would use the kunyomi for both kanji, but there are many exceptions to this as there may be a situation where you use kunyomi for the first kanji but onyomi for the other.
yes that's right. You don't have to necessarily memorize onyomi readings as long as you learn compound kanji. You will eventually naturally memorize the onyomi readings for a particular kanji if you know the vocabulary that uses it.
Are numbers an exception too somehow? Because you said that just reading one kanji by itself in onyomi doesn't make sense. But "one" means "ichi" and the kanji is 一. But "ichi" is the onyomi pronunciation of this kanji. The kunyomi would be "hito(tsu)". If the kanji 一 stands there by itself then I would have to use the onyomi pronunciation "ichi" to say "one" right?
that is correct. Actually there is no formal "rule" to onyomi and kunyomi. Sometimes a word can take the onyomi pronunciation and still make sense by itself. I only mention this difference so it is a bit easier to understand the concept of the two types of pronunciations.
There are rules set, but not all follow them. Like us human, not all of human follow all of the law rules, if they really did there wouldn't be *single crime or poor people starving* around the world!
Lol... conjugations in Portuguese is way harder.ALL verbs have around 60 ways to say it and there are no exceptions... all verbs are like this thus all verbs have its own “ original form” that u NEED to know in order to conjugate and use the verb so... we need to know all original forms for all verbs and be able to conjugate and speak the same verb in more than 60 different ways
Sensei reply me asap please..should we write onyomi in hiragana or katakana?in some books i saw written in katakana and in some books written in hiragana..tommorow is kanji quiz so i want to make sure what should i write
It doesn’t really matter but if you’re writing a quiz, you should simply ask your teacher/instructor that is assigning the quiz. If I were to assign the quiz, I would tell my students to write the onyomi in katakana and kunyomi in hiragana. But take my word with a grain of salt because it depends on who’s giving the test.
Can compound kanji be read in just it’s Kun-Yomi form? If not then why can’t it be? Wouldn’t it just be easier to read it the way Japanese people speak it sense you’re Japanese already speaking the Japanese language? Why read it in a similar way that Chinese people read it. I understand historical reasons from way back when but it’s the 21st century, wouldn’t it be easier to read every compound Kanji in Kun-yomi?
I understand where you're coming from. However, from a native Japanese speaker's perspective, kunyomi isn't any "easier" than onyomi and vice versa. They are both Japanese pronunciations. If I were to make an analogy to English, it's like saying why don't we spell "rain" as "rane" because words like "sane" and "lane" are spelled that way. Compound kanji are just a term/word. So it can take on either form of pronunciation as I said in the video. There's no rule to this, and you just have to know which form to use by memorization.
6:31 wait wait hold up what are the exceptions?? How do they work?? I know everything in this video except for that that's the only reason I'm here and i can't find anything on it and its boutta drive me insane somebody help
As stated in 6:18, the exceptions are called "Juubako" and "yutou" readings. With juubako readings, the first kanji is read in onyomi and the second kanji is read in kunyomi. Yutou readings are the opposite. There's no specific reasoning behind why we use onyomi/kunyomi pronunciations for compound kanji. You just have to memorize and know how they are read.
@@eelwithheels correct. It's like how words in English are spelled the way they are. There may be a linguistic history behind it, but it is unimportant to know when learning the language.
It would depend on the word. There is no rule when to use which pronunciation. You would simply either have to know which pronunciation to use or guess amongst the pronunciations which exists for that kanji.
A language shouldn't be this hard. I am learning it for educational reasons, i just imagine how much brainpower the average Japanese student wastes on this.
It depends on the word itself. Sometimes a word would use もく and sometimes the word would use ぼく. Like 木星 もくせい and 木刀 ぼくとう. You just need to know the multiple pronunciations for each kanji or know the term itself.
kanji is so horrible!!!! i remember I almost thought of giving up when I first saw kanji when I was a beginner . If you are thinking of quitting pls don'tas you learn more the kanji seems easy
I’m really enjoying this series so far, and it clears up a lot of things that I was confused about before. Also, I have a question: when learning kanji, should I learn radicals first so I have an easier time learning the more complicated kanji? Anyways, ありがとうございます and がんばって Kensei Sensei！٩( 'ω' )و(btw, you’re so cute😳)
Radicals shouldn't be your priority when you study Kanji. It's better to start with simple kanji and as you memorize more, you'll notice the same radicals in the Kanji you learn. When you start noticing these patterns, you should search up what these radicals represent for further reference.
Very good video. It seems clear that you have put a lot of work into making this video as good as you can. So far I have put little effort into learning grammar, and before now didn't even know the difference of kunyomi and onyomi, other than there being different readings, even though I've memorized all the kanji up to JLPT N4 and most of their readings/meanings. I haven't learned any radicals either. It seems I have been learning really inefficiently, so I'll learn those radicals and maybe make the next couple of hundred kanjis seem manageable! Person resting under a tree, so simple. I wouldn't have confused the kanji for "rest" with "body" at first I think. The book of a person is the body, it tells a story of how that person has lived.
So 日本 means Japan (nihon). These are two Kanji next to each other creating one word. (So one should use the onyomi pronunciation for both). 本 means “hon” in onyomi, so that’s okay. But then 日 would have to be „ni“ in onyomi, but isn’t like that. In onyomi 日 is „nichi“ or „jitsu“. This confuses me because I don’t know where the “ni” comes from. (Even in kunyomi it isn’t “ni”… its “hi, -bi or -ka” there)
actually 日本 is one of the very few exceptions to onyomi and kunyomi because as you said, "ni" is neither an onyomi and kunyomi. Since it's the country's name, it has to do with history and how the name was derived.
@@KenseiSensei Okay so I guess it comes from the onyomi pronunciation "nichi" because it has "ni" in the beginning. (Somehow like a shorter Version of it) But maybe it doesnt have anything to do with that, its just my speculation. Thanks for your answer :) Its nice having a native speaker to ask questions like this. (But sorry for asking so much hehe)
I just decided to learn Japanese and got confused immediately about why the apps start teaching Hiragana, with Kanji included in the footnote. Your video from 2 years ago clearly explained all those things. It is super helpful to me. Thank you very much! Best wishes for your current endeavors!
Do Conjugations only refer to the tense of the word then? And i still don't really get readings. Lets say 磁 has the on reading ジ and no kun reading. How is this word read? If I translate it I get the word "Jiki". But then what is the purpose of the on reading? Ah, one other thing I wanted to say. I wanted to start by learning the joyo Kanji (i've learnt Hiragana/Katakana) as I will be more motivated if I start on vocab and delve into grammer later. However i'm unsure as to whether there is any point in memorising the readings as remembering the reading for 磁 is ジ doesnt seem to really tell me anything. I feel like I have a-lot more questions but this video was worth watching, Sorry for the long comment and thanks to anyone that can respond.
Conjugations refer to any change you make to a verb or adjective. Changing the tense is only one type of conjugation. 食べる (to eat) to 食べたい (to want to eat) is a conjugation that does not involve a change in tense. Some words like 磁 only have one reading, in this case the onyomi. If it only has one reading, it will always be read as that when you see it. 磁石, for example, is "jishaku" and it means magnet.
There is one thing I don't really understand... If I want to write "bank (Ginkou)" in kanji... And there are two kanji whose on' pronunciations are gin and kou, And there are two different kanji who's kun' pronunciations are gin and kou. How do I know if I have to use the kanji that are pronounced gin and kou in on' or those that are pronounced gin and kou in kun' to create my word "Ginkou" ?
In that case there is no way to know other than knowing the word itself. Ginkou as in bank is written as 銀行 in kanji. There are no other replacements. When you learn Kanji, you have to simply memorize what words use that kanji character.
@@KenseiSensei Okay thank you. But could one still understand what is meant even if one writes it with the "wrong" kanji that are just pronounced the same? So the two kanji together don't mean bank but are still pronounced Ginkou? In context one should still understand that its "bank" even though it is the "wrong" kanji, or would one not understand it?
@@animesensei7005 yes, people can guess what you’re trying to write. It’s similar to misspelling a word in English. If I write “where is the banque”, people will understand what I’m trying to write but the spelling is wrong.
If you search up a kanji on a Japanese dictionary, usually it will teach you all the readings for that kanji. Let's say we take a look at 行. The onyomi for the kanji is "kou" and "gyou". The kunyomi is "i(ku)", "okona(u)" and "Yu(ku)". For the kunyomi, the hiragana characters in brackets are called okurigana which is not part of the kanji character. Notice how in 行く and 行う, there are hiragana characters after the kanji 行. く (ku) and う (u) here are the okurigana which is attached to the kanji 行.
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Sorry, there's a typo here! It should be Compound* Kanji, not compoud kanji!
I subscribed immediately when he made the joke at 5:47.....aaaaai!
As they say in the Japanese textbooks,"日本語 の 勉強は たいへん おもしいろい です。"
That one dislike is someone who got too overwhelmed and gave up
I was demotivated until you mentioned that the onyomi is for compound words. It makes so much sense now.
same here. I never understood the explanations other people gave because of how much they complicated stuff.
The radicals don't always connect in the sense of meaning such as 頭 head has beans which is thought to make sense by some because heads are beans but it is infact 豆 sound used for the note of onyomi
化可咼加 having ka reading as the radical
Seen in 花 for example
most reading can be done by learning the 140 phonetic components which often give the reading at an instant
With exceptions
Finally, a short and yet very informative lesson about kanji. Not like other youtubers who take 20 minutes to explain something that can be explained in 5.
本当に
sometimes i can’t believe i’m doing all of this just to understand and pronounce the “alphabet”! i haven’t even gotten to grammar and vocabulary yet. i could learn spanish, french, and another language in the time i’m taking to learn japanese. but it’s so worth it!!
Same here! How is your Japanese learning’ going?
Is it getting better for you?
As a chinese person who can’t differentiate them for the life of me, THANK YOU, you helped me in ways i never thought was possible, ありがとうございますとても役に立ちました。🤍🙏
5:46 Wow, thank you for the encouragement Kensei Sensei 🙃
subbed. i just finished with learning katakana and hiragana.
i was about to start learning kanji... then i found out about radicals...
then i found out about kunyomi and onyomi... and now okurigana... wew
I'm a lot more interested in learning Japanese than I was when I tried to learn German and Italian. It makes me more motivated... but oh my gosh, it's so overwhelming. I'm only just starting on kanji and it really feels like I'll never start learning how to speak. It makes my brain so tired, trying to learn it 😭
I understand how you feel! Kanji takes years to learn, even as a Japanese native person! As long as you study 1 or 2 kanji characters a day, you'll be setting yourself on a good schedule. My recommendation for you is to search up "N5 kanji" and start memorizing those. Once that's done, you can move onto N4, N3, and so forth!
@@KenseiSensei thank you! That's actually very encouraging :) I'll keep trying, even if it's just a little bit every day
When I should learn radicals, according to JLPT level? From N5?...If you have time, please reply my question.Thank you very much se no sensei...
From the beginning should be fine, it'll help you to recognize kanji as you learn them
Hell yeah, brother, look at those sweet Godzilla figures in the background! Nice video! Very helpful! :D
ohh, the more i watch videos about Japanese, the more i worry that I never will be fluent in that. at least i stay motivated to learn. and i just want to find a friend just like me, who is also a beginner and learn together, but there is no one(
Ahh finally! Those radicals have messed my head. Thank you for this video.
just started learning kanji and was confused by onyomi and kuyomi. Thank you so much for this explanation!
The Kanji for depression has, until now, honestly given me depression just by looking at it... I was spooked... But now that I know that I can remember the radicals, I might actually have a chance of remembering it... Tho, Ill put it off until I get used to Kanji by remembering the simple ones first... Thanks for the lesson!
*憂鬱 oh my goodness.*
@@lathryx melancholy?
Super informative and straightforward thank you!!
i just discovered your channel today! what a great day. thanks so much sensei. It's clear and precise. :)
I appreciate how you take your time to explain everything! And I appreciate how you broke it down into sections and included important details. Now I know that I learn better when the teacher (or 先生) doesn’t rush, and gives detailed explanations!
Woah, great video. SO MUCH INFORMATION. It makes my brain happy.
I actually thought I wouldn't understand any of this before clicking but I found this very useful and thank you for your help! I downloaded Kanji learning app and I forgot what was Kuyomi and Onyomi and I was struggling to understand which one to use!
The best video I ever found on this topic. Thanks a lot sensei... you're a saviour ❤️
Fantastically well explained. Thank you!
As a Chinese i think Chinese/Japanese kanji are the coolest writing system on earth, we have art calligraphy and the characters look majestic
Amazing!!!!! Loved this video, really helped because I'm quite a visual/audio learner so this has really helped me understand the onyomi/kunyomi thing. I've made so much progress with your resources ;A;
Thank you!
Thank you for this lesson.
This was all very helpful! Thanks for making it.
this was the most helpful video thank you
ありがとう先生❤
wow you explained the best
This video helped me a loot with my studies! ありがとうございます。
Thank you this is a huge help for me.
Goated video. Thank you bro
best video ever. thank you soo much for mentioning juubako and yutou yomi.ive been searching about that but none of the videos mentioned it. hontoni arigato!! can you please make a video about the juubako and yutou yomi pls, onegaishimasu🙏🥺
Whats up with yo face on the thumbnail bruh
Fanservice ;)
You channel is really good. good luck from インド(India)
amazing lesson Kensei sensei! arigatou gozaimasu. any chance of free kaiwa lessons, live on zoom?
Thank you, sensei)
I loved your explanation! I'm new on your channel but I already subscribed and connected to the Amino and Discord groups :) 初めまして！
Amazing!!!!
Thanks
Just found out your channel and I love it! このレソンは、ありがとうね。本当に助かったんだ！
your english was so fantastic. I would like to ask what are the basic kanji radicals for JLPT N4 and how to use them. Thanks
thank you for the comment. Like I mentioned in the video, it's not necessary to know kanji radicals as they are simply a pattern you will notice while you study kanji. Just focus on memorizing the kanji in the N4 kanji list which is available to you on the internet. Good luck!
Fantastic work, Sensei !
Hi kensai, really enjoy your lessons, just asking which is the best kana chart to use with the romaji associated to it?
Do you mean which graphic? You should use a kana chart that shows you the proper columns and rows in Japanese, perhaps with the romaji readings on it as well.
Thank you for this video 🙏🏻🧑🏫✍🏼
Thanks! Very well explained!
かっこいい先生ですね、けんせいせんせいは😆説明してくれてありがとう！
When you learn English (boss lvl 1) : hmm, I became fluent and I bet I can learn anything.
Everyone says japanese is difficult... Psss I bet I can learn it in no time.
Hiragana (boss lvl 2): easy
Katakana (boss lvl 2.5): wtf all those people are dummies, this is a joke
Kanji (boss lvl 100000): Sensei was right all along...
Also respect for all the kids in japan who have to learn all of this in school
Imma dead , i'm actually first learning grammar , so conjugation wasnt tough for me , it was at the beginning lmao . I dont wanna go to kanji man 🙂🙂 . Btw ! Can u please make a video of n5 radicals . I mean , i hope u understand wht i mean bcoz i dont. Sorry and thankyou . Nice video !
Super helpful! Subbed!
OMG TT THANK YOU SO MUCH. I FINALLY UNDERSTAND TT. i have a question. sometimes a kanji has more than 1 kunyomi/ onyomi right? how do i know which one to use? (if it doesnt make sense, heres an example. so the onyomi of the kanji tree is boku AND/OR moku, which one of the two should i use? or the kunyomi is ki AND/OR ko, which one should i use out of the two?)
There is no rule of knowing when to use the onyomi and kunyomi. You simply have to know the word by memorization. Kind of like how in english we have homophones like “Allowed” and “Aloud”. There’s no rule to the spelling but it’s just written the way it is.
Hokkien speakers can more or less understand Onyomi pronunciations since both of them came from Middle Chinese
Wow, this is fluent English '-'
this was really useful!!
Hello Kensei. I just started learning japanese last week (After starting with your first lesson) and I'm done memorising kana (hiragana and katakana with Dakuon, Handakuon and Yoon variants). What do you think are the next steps in my learning journey?
@@Shadabouzaki start learning some kanji and some vocabulary. I suggest that you search up online the JLPT N5 list for vocab and kanji!
@@KenseiSensei thank you so much!
thank you so much !!
ありがとう先生~
Say two Kanji are next to each other in a sentence with hiragana in it. Since it is a compound, but still surrounded with hiragana, do you use the Onyomi or Kunyomi pronunciation? I hope that question makes sense lol.
In most cases, you would use the kunyomi for both kanji, but there are many exceptions to this as there may be a situation where you use kunyomi for the first kanji but onyomi for the other.
@@KenseiSensei thank you!!
@@KenseiSensei Ill look more into it but I understand. (sorry for the late reply)
Is it necessary to learn the onyomi readings? I mean you could just readings of the combo und Kanji itself...
Great video btw.
yes that's right. You don't have to necessarily memorize onyomi readings as long as you learn compound kanji. You will eventually naturally memorize the onyomi readings for a particular kanji if you know the vocabulary that uses it.
@@KenseiSensei alright, thanks for clarifying^^
Are numbers an exception too somehow? Because you said that just reading one kanji by itself in onyomi doesn't make sense. But "one" means "ichi" and the kanji is 一. But "ichi" is the onyomi pronunciation of this kanji. The kunyomi would be "hito(tsu)".
If the kanji 一 stands there by itself then I would have to use the onyomi pronunciation "ichi" to say "one" right?
that is correct. Actually there is no formal "rule" to onyomi and kunyomi. Sometimes a word can take the onyomi pronunciation and still make sense by itself. I only mention this difference so it is a bit easier to understand the concept of the two types of pronunciations.
There are rules set, but not all follow them. Like us human, not all of human follow all of the law rules, if they really did there wouldn't be *single crime or poor people starving* around the world!
Lol... conjugations in Portuguese is way harder.ALL verbs have around 60 ways to say it and there are no exceptions... all verbs are like this thus all verbs have its own “ original form” that u NEED to know in order to conjugate and use the verb so... we need to know all original forms for all verbs and be able to conjugate and speak the same verb in more than 60 different ways
that sounds very hard! I might look into learning some Portuguese some day :)
konichiwa sensei.just want to ask where can I access Japanese School aminon? Is it an application?
Japanese School Amino is now inactive. I recommend that you join the JEIS discord server instead. The link should be in the description!
Sensei reply me asap please..should we write onyomi in hiragana or katakana?in some books i saw written in katakana and in some books written in hiragana..tommorow is kanji quiz so i want to make sure what should i write
It doesn’t really matter but if you’re writing a quiz, you should simply ask your teacher/instructor that is assigning the quiz.
If I were to assign the quiz, I would tell my students to write the onyomi in katakana and kunyomi in hiragana. But take my word with a grain of salt because it depends on who’s giving the test.
@@KenseiSensei thank you so much❤❤❤
얘위!
ありかと 私は 漢字を 少しい 勉強したです。
when pronouncing Onyomi kanji, Is the tonal characteristics of Chinese still retained or just disregard ?
Some have retained similarities with its corresponding chinese characters, yes
Can compound kanji be read in just it’s Kun-Yomi form? If not then why can’t it be? Wouldn’t it just be easier to read it the way Japanese people speak it sense you’re Japanese already speaking the Japanese language? Why read it in a similar way that Chinese people read it. I understand historical reasons from way back when but it’s the 21st century, wouldn’t it be easier to read every compound Kanji in Kun-yomi?
I understand where you're coming from. However, from a native Japanese speaker's perspective, kunyomi isn't any "easier" than onyomi and vice versa. They are both Japanese pronunciations. If I were to make an analogy to English, it's like saying why don't we spell "rain" as "rane" because words like "sane" and "lane" are spelled that way.
Compound kanji are just a term/word. So it can take on either form of pronunciation as I said in the video. There's no rule to this, and you just have to know which form to use by memorization.
@@KenseiSensei that makes sense. Thank you for the reply!
6:31 wait wait hold up what are the exceptions?? How do they work?? I know everything in this video except for that that's the only reason I'm here and i can't find anything on it and its boutta drive me insane somebody help
As stated in 6:18, the exceptions are called "Juubako" and "yutou" readings. With juubako readings, the first kanji is read in onyomi and the second kanji is read in kunyomi. Yutou readings are the opposite. There's no specific reasoning behind why we use onyomi/kunyomi pronunciations for compound kanji. You just have to memorize and know how they are read.
@@KenseiSensei wait. There's no reason? It just happens?
@@KenseiSenseialr got it, just gotta memorize. Another question tho: does this happen very often? Or seeing juubako and yutou is not that common
@@eelwithheels it’s actually quite common so it isn’t something you can ignore!
@@eelwithheels correct. It's like how words in English are spelled the way they are. There may be a linguistic history behind it, but it is unimportant to know when learning the language.
What if the kanji has two or more on yomi’s which one do you use?
It would depend on the word. There is no rule when to use which pronunciation. You would simply either have to know which pronunciation to use or guess amongst the pronunciations which exists for that kanji.
A language shouldn't be this hard. I am learning it for educational reasons, i just imagine how much brainpower the average Japanese student wastes on this.
Should be similar to the brainpower you use while driving- traffic signs anyone? :D
Bro there are more than two words in same yomi itself eg: 木 onyomi-もく,ばくhere in onyomi have two different words where should I use this moku,boku
It depends on the word itself. Sometimes a word would use もく and sometimes the word would use ぼく. Like 木星 もくせい and 木刀 ぼくとう. You just need to know the multiple pronunciations for each kanji or know the term itself.
If i say onyomi = ninben , can chinese people understand?
No. The onyomi pronunciation derives from old Chinese pronunciations but it is no longer similar enough for modern Chinese people to understand.
kanji is so horrible!!!! i remember I almost thought of giving up when I first saw kanji when I was a beginner . If you are thinking of quitting pls don'tas you learn more the kanji seems easy
I might get a brain damage while learning kanji 😔
idk why i learned conjugations before having a good grasp on kunyomi and onyomi, but now we here
I’m really enjoying this series so far, and it clears up a lot of things that I was confused about before. Also, I have a question: when learning kanji, should I learn radicals first so I have an easier time learning the more complicated kanji? Anyways, ありがとうございます and がんばって Kensei Sensei！٩( 'ω' )و(btw, you’re so cute😳)
Radicals shouldn't be your priority when you study Kanji. It's better to start with simple kanji and as you memorize more, you'll notice the same radicals in the Kanji you learn. When you start noticing these patterns, you should search up what these radicals represent for further reference.
Kensei Sensei oh ok, ありがとうございます！
Thank you for your videos sensei from PH I've learn a lot.
I am a Bengali speaking Indian and want to appear JLPT N5 Dec 2021 .I want to get all the Kanji characters for N5 exam only. Please post the list.
So I need to know Onyomi too
Very good video. It seems clear that you have put a lot of work into making this video as good as you can.
So far I have put little effort into learning grammar, and before now didn't even know the difference of kunyomi and onyomi, other than there being different readings, even though I've memorized all the kanji up to JLPT N4 and most of their readings/meanings. I haven't learned any radicals either. It seems I have been learning really inefficiently, so I'll learn those radicals and maybe make the next couple of hundred kanjis seem manageable!
Person resting under a tree, so simple. I wouldn't have confused the kanji for "rest" with "body" at first I think. The book of a person is the body, it tells a story of how that person has lived.
I'm glad my video helped 😊 If you have any questions in the future, feel free to ask me in the comments!
i love u
How about radicals theres are kanji app like kanji study ..theres option radicals
Sooo informative. You really changed my perspective in learning kanji. Thaaank youh
Bro just like my dad, going to buy some milk
１日、10日、日曜日、夏の日、日本にほん にっぽん、祝日。make me crazy 🤣🤣🤣😧😧😧😧
Also 羊
羊ひつじ、sheep
羊毛ようもう, fleece
NOW I know why I was having a hard time learning vocab. My method was way too wrong
So 日本 means Japan (nihon).
These are two Kanji next to each other creating one word. (So one should use the onyomi pronunciation for both). 本 means “hon” in onyomi, so that’s okay. But then 日 would have to be „ni“ in onyomi, but isn’t like that. In onyomi 日 is „nichi“ or „jitsu“. This confuses me because I don’t know where the “ni” comes from. (Even in kunyomi it isn’t “ni”… its “hi, -bi or -ka” there)
actually 日本 is one of the very few exceptions to onyomi and kunyomi because as you said, "ni" is neither an onyomi and kunyomi. Since it's the country's name, it has to do with history and how the name was derived.
@@KenseiSensei Okay so I guess it comes from the onyomi pronunciation "nichi" because it has "ni" in the beginning. (Somehow like a shorter Version of it)
But maybe it doesnt have anything to do with that, its just my speculation.
Thanks for your answer :)
Its nice having a native speaker to ask questions like this.
(But sorry for asking so much hehe)
日本的日（ni）属于音读（onyomi），在现代中国的吴方言里“日”的发音是“ni-ʔ”，到了日语里被扩展成了双音节“nichi”，当此类发音的字如果遇到第二个字是「か」、「さ」、「た」、「は」发音的话会产生入声变化，前者的ち变化为「っ（小）」，这种读法与吴方言的入声节奏是一致的
6:46 OH HE NEEDS SOME MILK!
Thanks bro ur a good teacher
Thanks for the video (arigato)
5:45 this part is scarier than the death note
Thanks for the vid!
easy to follow and insightful content.. subscribed. thanks
I just decided to learn Japanese and got confused immediately about why the apps start teaching Hiragana, with Kanji included in the footnote. Your video from 2 years ago clearly explained all those things. It is super helpful to me. Thank you very much! Best wishes for your current endeavors!
Do Conjugations only refer to the tense of the word then? And i still don't really get readings. Lets say 磁 has the on reading ジ and no kun reading. How is this word read? If I translate it I get the word "Jiki". But then what is the purpose of the on reading?
Ah, one other thing I wanted to say. I wanted to start by learning the joyo Kanji (i've learnt Hiragana/Katakana) as I will be more motivated if I start on vocab and delve into grammer later. However i'm unsure as to whether there is any point in memorising the readings as remembering the reading for 磁 is ジ doesnt seem to really tell me anything.
I feel like I have a-lot more questions but this video was worth watching, Sorry for the long comment and thanks to anyone that can respond.
Conjugations refer to any change you make to a verb or adjective. Changing the tense is only one type of conjugation. 食べる (to eat) to 食べたい (to want to eat) is a conjugation that does not involve a change in tense.
Some words like 磁 only have one reading, in this case the onyomi. If it only has one reading, it will always be read as that when you see it. 磁石, for example, is "jishaku" and it means magnet.
There is one thing I don't really understand...
If I want to write "bank (Ginkou)" in kanji...
And there are two kanji whose on' pronunciations are gin and kou,
And there are two different kanji who's kun' pronunciations are gin and kou.
How do I know if I have to use the kanji that are pronounced gin and kou in on' or those that are pronounced gin and kou in kun' to create my word "Ginkou" ?
In that case there is no way to know other than knowing the word itself. Ginkou as in bank is written as 銀行 in kanji. There are no other replacements. When you learn Kanji, you have to simply memorize what words use that kanji character.
@@KenseiSensei Okay thank you.
But could one still understand what is meant even if one writes it with the "wrong" kanji that are just pronounced the same? So the two kanji together don't mean bank but are still pronounced Ginkou?
In context one should still understand that its "bank" even though it is the "wrong" kanji, or would one not understand it?
@@animesensei7005 yes, people can guess what you’re trying to write. It’s similar to misspelling a word in English. If I write “where is the banque”, people will understand what I’m trying to write but the spelling is wrong.
@@KenseiSensei Thanks for your explanation
ありがとう ございました (No Kanji in here hehe. Thats easier XD)
This was so helpful! I’ve never found a video that was nice and short, and really comprehensible, until now! Thank you so much 🫶
Thank you 😊
ありがとう❤️
So much knowledge is packed into this short video. Well done 👍.
What do you mean by "hiragana character written in brackets" at 4:30 onwards. ie what is brackets?
If you search up a kanji on a Japanese dictionary, usually it will teach you all the readings for that kanji. Let's say we take a look at 行. The onyomi for the kanji is "kou" and "gyou". The kunyomi is "i(ku)", "okona(u)" and "Yu(ku)". For the kunyomi, the hiragana characters in brackets are called okurigana which is not part of the kanji character. Notice how in 行く and 行う, there are hiragana characters after the kanji 行. く (ku) and う (u) here are the okurigana which is attached to the kanji 行.