A MUST KNOW if You’re Studying Kanji Charcters #Shorts

If you study Japanese and are practicing Kanji, there is one important thing that I want you to know. Always try to keep each Kanji character in a box. When Japanese children study Kanji, they often use these Kanji practicing notebooks with a lot of squares. Every Kanji are made to fit into a box, and if you aren’t aware of this you will miswrite certain characters.

For example, you wanted to write “好き suki” which means “like,” if you write this without fitting this character into a box, it could look like “女子き.” Then the left and right elements of the Kanji look like they are separated, and then it reads 女子 Jyoshi, which means girl. Regardless of how complicated the Kanji is, the rule of the box is always the same, so please keep this in mind.

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[exie_xd]

Box up your Kanji like you do your feelings and you'll learn real Japanese

[literally-just-a-bee]

"I girl you" she wrote
I was utterly confused

[gundampharmacist]

Japanese major here; to all my fellow learners, heed me: Graph and dot matrix notebooks are your BEST FRIEND here. Using them regularly will encourage use of the square rule.

[andrewlance]

*Me, studying Japanese and having terrible handwriting in my native language* : "Guess I'll die."

[SageArdor]

I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to develop Parkinson's or other tremor-inducing problems and still need to write Kanji characters.

[LetsaskShogo]

If you study Japanese and are practicing Kanji, there is one important thing that I want you to know. Always try to keep each Kanji character in a box. When Japanese children study Kanji, they often use these Kanji practicing notebooks with a lot of squares. Every Kanji are made to fit into a box, and if you aren’t aware of this you will miswrite certain characters.

For example, you wanted to write “好き suki” which means “like, ” if you write this without fitting this character into a box, it could look like “女子き.” Then the left and right elements of the Kanji look like they are separated, and then it reads 女子 Jyoshi, which means girl. Regardless of how complicated the Kanji is, the rule of the box is always the same, so please keep this in mind.

If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe!

*The content is based on personal studies and experience
There is no intention of denying other theories and cultural aspects

[hebrewkazu]

That kanji at the end just gave me a night terror during mid-day 💀

[rrrrmrmr]

"And social problems in Japan"
*shows Duolingo*

[mortadasaleh]

"Always write Kanji in a box"
That's what I always used to do when I started practicing writing Japanese, I use graph notebook and separate each space with 1 box. As for the Taito Kanji, then it's impossible for me to fit it in such small box. 😅

[kkamiya]

Same here in Hong Kong. We use the nine square box however, or the eight triangle square, so learners can see where each stroke is situated, in relations to the entire character.

[AmericanDivaa]

🤣 Shogo-sama… that Kanji scares me. I’m only slowly learning Hiragana and Katakana!

[kikosawa]

Thank you, Shogo-san. Although it seems obvious, I just know I'd make this mistake if I'm not careful

[broEye]

Reminds me of Zetsubou-sensei. Main Character's name is Itoshiki Nozomu. He's depressed about the stroke number being inauspicious or something, so one of the students writes it sideways, but she writes the "Ito" and "Shiki" kanji too close together, turning it into the kanji "zetsu", which combined with the kanji for his given name makes "Zetsubou" AKA "Despair".

I also remember whenever I saw manuscripts in anime/manga, they were always set up as grids. Sort of figured this was why.

[kakalukium]

Yeah buying a notebook with these boxes saved my life.

[gouravchakraborty]

In other words, treat Kanjis like radicals to combine them into a single Kanji.

[nidohime]

True when doing a tatoo, hence why many are mispelled.

[zacharyvoyer]

I'm doing a foreign exchange program to japan in August. I can't believe I have thought of using graph paper before.💀

[emulationemperor]

That last Kanji dealt psychic damage to me

[fuadnajmudin]

That 'a hundreds line' kanji character was definitely on another another another level.