水

Onyomi: sui
Kunyomi: mizu
Meaning: water
Try to imagine this character as water current flowing in a river

火

Onyomi: ka
Kunyomi: hi, bi
Meaning: fire
You can imagine this character as an image of a fire camp.

三

Onyomi: san
Kunyomi: mi-, mitsu
Meaning: three
To write three in japanese just write three lines. Pretty easy.

二

Onyomi: ni
Kunyomi: futa-, futatsu
Meaning: two
Another easy kanji to remember, its like writing kanji for one twice.

一

Onyomi: ichi, itsu
Kunyomi: hito-, hitotsu
Meaning: one
This kanji is really easy to remember, it even looks like number one but placed horizontally.

First Thing First

Japanese writing system consists of three types of scripts, hiragana, katakana and kanji. In this blog we will learn about kanji, chinese scripts that adopted by japanese for their writing system centuries ago.

In Japan, kanji usually has two readings, onyomi and kunyomi. Onyomi is usually used to read kanji in a compound word, while kunyomi is usually used to read the kanji by itself. We will learn both types of the reading for every kanji we learn in this blog.