Today's Kanji - 03/03/2016
Today's Kanji
Well, it's another day, another blog post! Let's get this rolling.
Kanji: 畳
Kunyomi: たたみ tatami, たた(む) tata(mu)
Onyomi: じょう jō
Meaning: Tatami mat (Wikipedia link), to fold, to close, counter for tatami mats, measure of room size (in tatami mats)
Example: 八畳 hachijō (8 tatami mats, 8-tatami in size), 畳 tatami (tatami mat), 店を畳む mise wo tatamu (to close up shop, go out of business)
Stroke order:
Kanji: 舎
Kunyomi: やど(る) yado(ru)
Onyomi: しゃ sha
Meaning: Cottage, hutt, inn, house
Examples: 校舎 kōsha (shool building), 庁舎 chōsha (government office building), 田舎 inaka* (rural area, countryside)
Stroke Order:
* = Okay, side note, sometimes when you put two kanji's together you get a reading that is completely different from any reading you'd get by putting together onyomi or kunyomi. This is one example of that. Keep in mind that these are usually few and far between, most of the time you don't see these sort of things. Other examples of this include Yamato (Kanji: 大和) and Kyō (Kanji: 今日).
Kanji: 離
Kunyomi: はな(れる) hana(reru), はな(す) hana(su)
Onyomi: り ketsu
Meaning: separation, detach
Examples: 離れる hanareru (to be separated, to be distance, to leave), 離す hanasu (to separate, to part, to divide), 離婚 rikon (divorce), 距離 kyori (distance)
Stroke order:
And that's it for today! I'll post more in a few more days, hope you enjoyed. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them!
Credit where credit's due:
Thank you to Jaxsie for providing the inspiration for this format. Check out her Japanese Word of the Day, it's a good way to learn new Japanese words if you're interested in that sort of stuff.
The information for the kanji itself was obtained from the Jisho.org online dictionary. It serves as both a Japanese-English Dictionary and a Kanji dictionary, so it's very useful if you want to learn Japanese.
Also, all of the images for the stroke order was made by the people at Iwate University. I did not make them myself, I just found them on Google Image search.
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