@moji.learnjapanesedaily: Japanese writing looks intimidating, but once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it. Kanji characters are basically visual building blocks — stack them and the meaning literally shows itself. One tree is a tree. Two trees? Woods. Three trees? A forest. It’s writing as visual poetry, and it’s been around for over 1,500 years. This is just the surface. There are over 50,000 kanji in existence, and Japanese kids memorize 1,026 of them before finishing elementary school. Some characters have 84 strokes. Others mean oddly specific things like “sunlight filtering through leaves” or “buying books and never reading them.” Save this for your next trip to Japan #japan #japanese #fyp #LearnOnTikTok

信 :

you really used simplified Chinese for the examples 🤦. Japan uses shinjitai characters not simplified.

Toruu :

most of these are chinese characters though

EverMelodee :

Nice proof that Japanese language use Chinese characters😂

Elliex :

approx 2% of kanji are pictographic

daria_kanopi :

雨 Ame, means rain, looks like a window when it is raining outside

Mimi🧉☦️🌸-INTP :

Except many kanji are super complex lol

chino :

they come from china btw, but still there exists kanjis that they created themselves

stupid ugly :

pictographic characters

Irabu :

Chinese characters are assigned pronounciation, emojis are not

﷽|🍉𝔜𝔲𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔣 🍉 :

Explain 鬱 then

Dan Thomas :

They are, but with hundreds of years that have passed so the drawing doesn’t look like the thing it’s meant to anymore

otakon𒉭 :

explain this 絮

Rui :

Ok explain 漱

sustatic :

中文💔

Zeaaa :

terus kalo gak salah kanji orang sama pohon disatuin jadi kanji buat kata istirahat 😭

Elliex :

alright so now explain 鬱欝

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laura :

bye i’m dying at the woman slide haha 😂

Rmx :

The power of hanzi is that it doesn't degrade over time due to dialect changes the way phonetic languages do. This is a civilizational superpower that keeps society from fracturing.

♟️ :

This is Hanyu not Kanji 😂

Moji Learn Japanese :

small corrections 🙏 从 and 众 are simplified chinese (japanese uses 従 and 衆). the rest are real kanji used everyday in japan!

coldbeefsundaedel :

While modern Japanese Kanji has deviated from modern Chinese characters (especially the simplified vs traditional versions), to call it "ancient Japanese" without any Chinese historical context feels like you're knowingly erasing/ignoring Chinese history. It would be akin to calling Latin "Ancient American English."

Andy 🪶 :

you know that even Latin letters have the same origin, right? why do study more others than ourselves? do we take who we are for granted?

𝔾𝕠𝕡𝕒𝕝 :

its kanji right same like basic mandarin i guess😁

K H :

😂😂😂