にほんごのべんきょう

  さ【sa】

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You may wonder the difference between the font



because it's with only 2 strokes.
Of cause you will see the reason when you see the origin.

 

Anyway, we are writing the letter with 3 strokes as the general standard. 


き【ki】

Just add a stroke on さ, you can write き.

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The original Kanji is very complicated, so it would be better to memorize this letter without thinking about the origin.



キ【ki】
Katakana Ki has the same origine. The kanji is complicated, but katakana shape is close to hiragana, so it's not difficult to memorize.


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Then let's learn other Katakana with 3 strokes, 2 horizontal lines and 1 vertical line.


テ【te】

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テ is also with 3 strokes. The important point is the 3rd stroke, the one from up to bottom just starts at the 2nd stroke and never across it. The end of stroke is Harau (Sweep) technique.


The original kanji 天（ten）shows the Harau technique, too.

チ【chi】

The first stroke is right upper to left lower with Harau technique. The 3rd stroke is similer of テ's 3rd stroke. The differnce is the 3rd stroke of チ starts at the 1st stroke and across the 2nd stroke.


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The original kanji means 1,000 and sometimes is read as "chi"

It's the very simple Kanji, so you can write it easily.


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モ【mo】
 
モ is also with 3 strokes. First 2 strokes are pararell, and the 3rd stroke starts at the first stroke, and Magaru at the end.


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The origin is easily recognize the shape.

も【mo】

Once you know Katakana モ, it's easy to memorize it's Hiragana.

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We've leaned many letters in this lesson.
Check out the progress.







 

There are 2 Hiragana with simple 3 stroke. They are に【ni】 & け【ke】. At the first stroke, they have the same part at the left side.

Left part of に【ni】
 
Left part of け【ke】


See? So, lets start to study.

に【ni】

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This is the original Kanji of に, and you see the 2 parts here. The left side and the right side. Such kind of compornents of Kanji is called "Kanji Radicals". Each Kanji consists of one or multiple radicals. Understanding the radicals makes it easier to memorize kanji, since they become more concrete.

Most of time, if the hiragana has the first stroke look like "the left part", it means the original Kanji has the left part, too. We call the Kanji radical of Left part as "HEN".


け【ke】

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The original Kanji also has the left part, "HEN", and the right part.


は【は】

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You can write this Hiragana almost the same way that you write け. Just add a knot at the last.



The Original Kanji also has HEN.

ほ【ほ】

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You might think the previous one, は and this ほ is alike. For preventing mix them up, just make sure:The 4th and the last stroke with knot starts on the place just touching the 2 nd stroke, the upper holizontal line. It should not intersect. (は's 3rd stroke with knot should intersect the 2nd stroke, the upper horizontal line.)



When we see the right part of ほ, there is a similer looking Hiragana.

ま【ま】
   
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This time, the 3rd stroke with knot should intersect the 1st stroke, the upper horizontal line.

    

Originnal Kanji also show the vertical line intersect the horizontal one.

は, ほ, ま are the 3 Hiragana that bigginers get confused. Please write again and again until you'll get.


 

We only have 3 Hiraganas with 2 strokes. All of them have a knot.


す【su】

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You can easily see the stroke when you check the original Kanji.



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み【mi】

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I dont see well the develope from the original Kanji, anyway, it's for your reference. Just memorise the shape. You may need intensive practice to write until you'll get the balance.

 
Since the original Kanji means "beauty", many Japanese girls' names are used this one.


よ【yo】
 
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Make sure the 2nd stroke is just touching the 1st stroke but not across.
I;m not sure the original Kanji will help you or not.

 

This type of stroke with knot, Top to Bottom - knot - going to right (slightly slant) can be seen in many Hiragana. For example, we've learned already ね、ぬ. We will lean the others in Lesson 15.

In this lesson, we are continuously studying Hirganas with an ORERU+MAGARU line. You might have an impression that next one looks difficult when you compare the Hiragana in Lesson 10. Just practice it many times until you'll get it.

え【e】

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Of cause you can see how to write through the link abobe, anyway, for assurance, let's check the stroke together.


The 2nd stroke is:
From Left to Right
ORERU
Top to Bottom (Slant for this time)
ORERU 
Left bottom to upper right corner (Not reaching at the corner)
MAGARU
Top to Bottom
MAGARU


The original Kanji might help you to understand, too.


れ【re】

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The 2nd stroke is similer to え (I just "copy paste" for the discription below, with only a little edit )  : 
From Left to Right
ORERU
Top to Bottom (Slant for this time)
ORERU 
Left bottom to upper right corner (Not reaching at the corner)
MAGARU (It's almost ORERU)
Top to Bottom
MAGARU



FIr the next one, the shape is alike to れ. The differnece is the last part of the 2nd stroke. So I think it's not difficult you anymore.

わ【wa】

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The next one is also the similer shape, and the end of the 2nd stroke is like a knot.

ね【ne】

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Can you see how the brush moves and create the "knot" ??

     



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We've learned some Hiragana with simple 2 strokes. Now it's getting a bit complicated. The Hiraganas we are going to learn today has a line with both ORERU and MAGARU technique.

ち【chi】

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In the 2nd stroke, the brush stars from the top, then comes down, then ORERU to the right and the brush moves while drowing MAGARU line.

You can see how the letter had developed from the original Kanji.


ら【ra】

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As you see the 2nd stroke is similer to ち.


With the next one, the stroke with ORERU and MAGARU is almost the same as ち and ら, but it's the first stroke this time. Let's see.

ゆ【yu】


You see the hiragana below is writing ゆ with one stroke. That's why you have to start with the ORERU+MAGARU line before drawing /writing the "Top to Bottom" stroke. Some people write ゆ, just like this, too.


In the next lesson, we'll study a bit complicated ORERU + MAGARU line.

 

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