Lesson 2
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X. #6 - 2 -   ( Kanji made from pictures -2-)
Look at the following picture.   Each drawing indicates a certain meaning.
Guess the meaning of the Kanji characters below.
l.^C    2. 3.&    4. £    5.^    6.^    7. ±
8. TtC    9. 5fe
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These Kanji characters were made from very primitive pictures as follows. Remember that each Kanji has its 'KUN YOMF (Japanese reading) and 'ON YOMF (Chinese reading).
Picture
Kanji
'KUN'
'ON' [KA]
Meaning fire
Hi
7K
[SUI]
[KIN]
water
gold
money
metal
[DO]
ground
earth
soil
[SHI] child
[JO]
woman female
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[GAKU] study
15~
5fc
[SEI]
[SEN]
live birth
foregoing previous
Usually the 'ON YOMF (Chinese reading) of Kanji will be written using Katakana in a Kanji dictionary. Therefore, students are expected to learn Kata-kana as soon as possible after mastering Hiragana.
Lesson 2
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*-gW)gSA,8t? (Basic Kanji)
2-1. M^Ofrtfrtz (Kanji Writings)
< #(5A,C0HJ (Basic Strokes)>
(1) a horizontal line
(2) a vertical line
(3) a slanting line
(4) a short hook
(5) a long hook
(6) a corner
(7) a dot and various short lines
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		fire														(4)	
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'X(O) fire					If) Tuesday								a volcano				
	water					(4)										
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7K(^T) water                                  ^fflOU/* •          a rice field tKBIB         • <M • ^) Wednesday																
t		gold, money metal					(8)										
																	
																	
ioátí^fa) money                               <£EB (^te • ŕi) Japanese name A) gold                                    Éi0(H- ivOO Friday																	
		ground earth, soil					(3)										
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±(o-t>) the ground                          ±>fc(£í-{ř<) civil engineering ±iH(f'J:v O*) Saturday																	
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		child					(3)										
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¥i> a child                                            -k(ÜA,fj:)<D^ (Z)  a girl • L-7Ö?< • iirH a girl student																	
	woman female					& ^ &                v 3 (3)										
	iL															
																
£;(£A.&)   a woman                               ic(&A.ts:)<DA (X> t)   a woman tyLk(fr<?> ' £*) she																
T		study					(8)										
							f										
																	
^£(t5?< •          a student                                   • 7$?<) a university • £      a school																	
i		live birth					(5)										
			+														
																	
£M       to live                                                to be born • -£v*) a teacher                 ^£0ö*< ■a student																	
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	previous   r ' 1   foregoing 2					£ S -fe> (6)										
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5fc(£ g) ahead                                 $fcJ3        • tfo) last month •         a teacher																
	private					tefzL v fr£<L (7)										
s				*												
																
%{hfzL/t>tz< L) I %L\LX^(L ■ tyo • £V •          a private university																
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2 — 2. cfc^tlA L ti> O ( Reading Exercises)
I. Write the reading of the following Kanji in Hiragana.
1. %        2. J-        3. ~k        4. 'X        5. *        6. & 7.
8. Jl Bl B 9. 'X m B 10. * HI B 11. * Bl B
12. ^ Bi B     13. ± Bi B     14. B Bl B     15. ^ £    16. % £
II. Write the reading of the following Kanji in Hiragana.
1. £ft(i|JWII£A,<7)i3#T-1-o
2. -r^i-^Ao    <t^i^^o
3. &<7>&<7)A{±^£-Cl-0
4. li&O £-£A,0
6. fc^&^^ti 2 1 -C-To    That girl student is 21 years old.
7. %<D£.%M B(il 9 6 0 ^3^ 1 1 0^1"0      My date of birth is
the 11th of March 1960.
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2-3.     § ft A, U tf> 9 (Writing Exercises)
I. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate Kanji.
1. I
2. a student       3. a woman     4. a child       5. a teacher
6. money       7. water
8. fire
9. the ground    10. gold
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I. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate Kanji.
1. Monday
2. Tuesday
3. Wednesday     4. Thursday
m
m
Ifo  Xo    0s Xo    Vs       tl*  «t? 0*
5. Friday 6. Saturday 7. Sunday
Bl
Bl
8. a woman
3^  Xo    Vs £    Xo    £>*       C*>   Xo G
9. a girl 10. a girl student 11. a university   12. afire
13. the date of one's birth
14. a rice field
			
	fa A,		
15. a private university
16. my teacher 17. ahead
					(7)				
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18. Mr. Kaneda       19. Miss Tsuchida     20. a gold car
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(Do you know these words?   Can you use them?)
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2
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l	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
[Questions]
1. 2j§i2BtJisnsB c&aj:^) -e-t^o
2. 2^15H (i^B-e-t^o
3. 2^i7aiiji!ieWo
4. 2^21Bti^rHBT*i-^o
5. 2i!23Bti^BiB-C1-^0