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You said groove. Lesson 2. Lesson 2. Get into the groove of kanji.

You did a great job learning the first lesson's kanji.

It's time to expand on that and turn your one tree into a grove.

Memorise the basic principle of drawing a one tree and you've got this kanji down.

Now let's draw today's kanji. Here's one tree and the other tree. The meaning for this

kanji is a grove of trees.

Now, we're going to have a trick for memorizing this kanji in just a minute, but let's

first look at the readings.

Remember there are two readings in Japanese kanji, one is their own readings and the other

one is the kun readings.

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

The own reading for this kanji is Ning.

And the kun reading for this kanji is... And remember the trick that I was telling you about? Hayashi.

And remember the trick that I was telling you about?

Let's look at the now.

Here you can see tree number one and tree number two.

In ancient times, trees were thought to be the life givers.

Considering that, one tree gave life to another tree.

Then you have a grove of trees.

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

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