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You said groove! Lesson 3 A forest full of kanji.

Okay, so you've drawn a tree and then a grove.

Now you're ready to turn the grove into a forest.

Just imagine a big tree that stands atop your two smaller trees.

And you've written the Japanese kanji meaning forest.

Let's try to draw today's kanji.

Big tree on the top, small trees at the bottom.

The meaning for this kanji is a forest.

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

we're going to look at the kanji readings.

Remember, kanji has two readings.

One's On Yomi, On readings, and the other one is Kun Yomi, the Kun readings.

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

For more information about the readings, visit our website, Japanese4101.com and get the lesson notes.

Okay, let's look at the reading for this kanji.

The own reading for this kanji is

Shin.

And the Kun reading for this kanji is

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