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You said groove! Lesson 1 Japanese kanji and trees. What's the connection?

In today's video lesson, you'll learn a simple trick that will make today's kanji super easy.

Believe it or not, thinking of a tree is all you need to reach kanji perfection. Okay, let's draw today's kanji.

The meaning of this kanji is tree.

Now we're going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute, but let's first look at the readings. There are two readings in Japanese kanji. One is the own readings and the other one is the

kun readings. Long story short, the own readings come from Chinese and the kun readings

come from Japanese. The own reading for this kanji is Mok and

Boku

And the Koon reading for this kanji is

ki and

Ko. Now remember the trick that I was telling you about?

Let's look at the now.

I need the blue pen for that.

So this first stroke indicates the ground.

And this part is the actual tree and this part is the root of the tree.

Now, let's look at how to draw this kanji.

Pay attention to the stroke order.

Start from the left.

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