The Easiest Kanji vs The Hardest Kanji
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"so what did you do today?"
"I woke up, wrote a kanji and it was time to go to sleep again"
What is a kanji?
@@ree11711 japanese character/alphabet
@@user-fh5ov4tu2j it’s not
it’s chinese characters used in japanese
because hiragana and katakana are not kanji but they are still japanese writing systems
😆😄😆😆
@@achannel2916 that’s what i meant “it’s chinese characters used in japanese” as in “chinese characters adapted to japanese”
Hardest kanji:
"Starts drawing a castle"
Facts 😂
Started being an architect💀
God i thought i was imagining it.
Guys its fake
😂
Imagine handwriting an exam essay about the 108 earthly desires in Japanese-
😶
Sounds like a fun little project for a class though
You would not use this kanji for that, you would use a combination of multiple kanji 百八煩悩
@aeolianaether oh yeah that's so much easier... 😅😂
@@GeorgeJewittThe first two kanji there are literally the kanji for 100, followed by kanji for 8. "One hundred and eight" is wayyy longer to write than the kanji equivalent.
That second one isn't a phrase, it's an entire picture 💀
nah man it's the entire fnaf lore :skull:
Well, technically most kanji are pictures. Extremely simplified, but still.
“Easy peasy japanesey”
That’s so wholesome
Someone's a fan of Hikaru Utada
@@mmyr8ado.360 you're easy breezy and I'm japanesey 😭😭😭
I agree. It was so cute!
And it is indeed easy peasy japanesey. Imagine hearing that in Japan. You'd just smile or giggle
Chinesey too
him: _finished middle part_
me: "oh no"
him: _continues writing_
me: "OH NO"
you mean
"ほ , の"
XD
@@ridenenaji he meant "おーの"...
何？？
*But wait, there's more*
That 108 desires kanji almost sounds like a criminal punishment; having to write the 108 desires kanji 108 times would deter anyone from doing wrong again lol
And if you mess up you have to restart from zero
Also no eraser
its intentional to have 108 strokes
Better not get the stroke order wrong either
But you would be so good at it by the end😂
Now use it in a sentence 💀
For all those wondering, this isn't a kanji you'd find in a dictionary. It exists, but only because someone created it by incorporating other kanji under the idea that there are 108 worldly desires. I'm sure most realize this, but for those who don't... I'd assume it's read the same as 煩悩 (ぼんのう/bonnou) meaning worldly desires, but don't quote me on it.
Oh I will quote you on that don't worry
You can do this with pretty much any language. That’s how a protein has such a long name
BUDVIRGINLOGIC is siiiiick
Something German and Japanese grammar agree on.
@@sekroyssektor4151 Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaftunternemen
It looked like a draft for a building or a house with a lot of windows.
thats the first thing that popped in my mind 🤣
It is easily the most idiotic writing system in the world
@@Sebastian_Torr why
Most kanji looks like
@@Sebastian_Torr You should’ve known opinions aren’t allowed anymore. Good luck, dude
I love how kanji included aspects of/ other kanji. Like how this contains things like 田, 女, and 子 basically representing the prosperous and familial aspects of the meaning of he kanji
I always like seeing a familiar radical in a new kanji and thinking "I know that one!"
Yeah as a Mandarin speaker we’re taught most of the basic radicals to help understand how characters are constructed
@soyyo7411 田 is a field of rice, 女 is woman, 子 child
@soyyo7411 田 directly translates to "field" and probably means "farmland", “女” is the word for "female", and “子” is used for the word "child".
Yep, it makes everything easy once you learn the basic kanji. I can understand words I don’t know just by reading what's inside it.
nice abstract art
Me feeling excited because I can read “ichi”:
Me seeing that second kanji: 🥲
Well fortunately it has the same reading as it’s basic counterpart in case for whatever godforsaken reason you run into it
As someone who’s studying Mandarin Chinese I read it as yī
Just wait until you learn that it’s not always pronounced “ichi”
*weak*
@@Moonsapphire419 i e san se
"108 Earthly Desires" has some shade in there. Shout out to "woman" being a part of it.
And eat! 食 😏
Based kanji
Wouldn't woman signify lust maybe?
"Child" was there too so I wondered if it meant "family."
@@j.kaimori3848 lol 😂
Imagine naming your child 108 Earthly Desires
“Hello, I’m Iza. And here today on why we won’t ever learn Japanese-“
This kanji isn't used in normal japanese .
Me when I first started learning Japanese, thinking that Kanji was optional: easy peasy japaneesy.
ITS NOT OPTIONAL???
@@paaopu haha
No
@@paaopu 😂😂😂😂...😭😭😭
@@paaopu From my understanding, you only need to learn the ~2200 Kanji to be N1 level, however most after this will have Hiragana above them (Furigana) to help you read it. If I am wrong please reply to me with the correction.
@@Doubloons bro wtf
Interestingly, it can be broken down into 12 complete Chinese words,
苦，平 （top 2 words) meaning bitterness, balance
耳，舌，鼻，女，子，身 （left & right) ear, tongue, nose, female, son (or a person), body
惡意，眼，淨染 （middle) evil thoughts, eyes and purification
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EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING!
That’s because kanji is derived from Chinese :p
@@Astonthepunk yup
Yhea because Kanji means simply means Chinese characters 漢= China (the Kan part) 字= Characters (the ji part).... And in Korean there are Hanji (Han as in China and Ji as Ji) ....These like the orginal one function the same way by joining simpler character and meaning to make more complex character and meaning... Only difference is pronounciation
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This is probably harder then memorizing 100 digits of pi.
What they teach you vs the exam be like:
The sound of the pen and paper gave me 108 strokes of goosebumps
Made me cringe
ヴァニタス
I liked it lol
oh yeah i hated that sound as well, cannot stand the sound of markers writing on paper, sounds like scraping cardboard, makes me wanna rip my nails out lol
@@plasmodius9449 misophonia check 😔🤚
Imagine if Animes characters had to write this whole kanji everytime they had to use their signature attack, everyone would know how to write it within a month 😂
Yeah but the villan would have destroyed the whole world by the time they're done writing it
@@peace6566 not if the villain's OP superpower had to do with the 108 earthly desires.
@@peace6566
No, the rule of anime is when someone is transforming, doing a special attack, having a speach everyone needs to wait and react when it is over
@@paradoxzee6834 fair enough😂
Lol the power of weebs
Imagine your japanese teacher punish you to write the hardest kanji 100 times lol
*German:*
*"Hold my Rhababerbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbier. Now i will teach you The Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz"*
Imagine just starting Japanese and seeing this 🤣🤣 people would get so disheartened lmao
Only strong will survive, only wise will prevail
Sun Tzu - Art of calling Sun Tzu to everything
@@Natan150full 🤣
Stop calling me out
@@aoifekun 🤣🤣
I started the day this was posted 🥲
Imagine writing this in ink, then screwing up the stroke order at stroke 107.
Wow. This scenario actually succeeded in making me feel so frustrated & yet simultaneously tired & defeated for the person who it's happened to 😩
Unless it's for a competition, that mess up is staying or getting White Out on it 😂
I'm pretty sure people mess up all the time but like me speling certain words wring, you van still understand. 🙂
@@taylorfrizzell4073 Wow. Excellent visual example lol
Messing the stroke ORDER won't change much, but if you put the wrong stroke then you're screwed
The music is what makes it funny 😆
Nice painting!
A few years ago, I was sitting on a bench on the village green. An elderly Japanese woman came and sat on the bench. She took out some stationary, and started writing Kanji. It was really cool to watch. Her handwriting was so visually appealing.
If it was strictly Kanji it was probably Chinese.
@@jamesprimmer355 yea lol
@@jamesprimmer355 unless she was doing calligraphy
I think hiragana/katakana is relatively recent, so she could be writing old Japanese?
@@DaviAreias it’s over a thousand years old.
“Easy peasy japaneesy”
*proceeds to draw the ancient scripture*
nice drawing by the way 👍
“easy peasy Japanesey”
that’s where i get my channel name from.
the stacking on this is how it feels to get +32 in uno
“easy peasy japanesey” 😭😂
It's not a hyeroglyphic, it's a whole damn apartment building scheme.
Yup that's the road map for our time machine 🙃
“how many strokes do you want?”
“yes”
108…
For me it's 鬱 (うつ/utsu), I remember when I first saw this Kanji I feel 鬱.
even for traditional Chinese users, this is hard to write
It is even more depressive when you see it in a word 憂鬱 (melancholy)
その漢字は日本人でも書ける人は少ないです
鬱憤
Useless ?
This is why Japan produces so much art, you need to be an art major to write their alphabet.
This kanji is used at least once a year by Japanese people, so it is always learned as the most difficult kanji in compulsory education.
Now i know why japanese people are so good in drawing.
My Japanese teacher in highschool told me the hardest kanji to write is 愛, so I learnt it and now onto 108 earthly desires
In simplyified chinese 愛 is 爱，and even though it doesn't have the 4 strokes inbetween, no matter how often i write it, it just looks ugly as hell ㅠㅠ
I think "憂鬱"ゆううつ. is harder than 愛.🤣
@@user-db2sy4nk7f oo thats a very juicy looking kanji, thank you for sharing!
@@Huathemulgogi its so hard to get the bent lines at the bottom exactly correct right~
imagine having to write that on a school board 108 times as punishment
Easiest kanji: ------
Hardest kanji: *Draws the map of military training camp*
I just wonder how to write that in a full sentence. I learned a bit Japanese from 2014-2015 and my teacher always told me that my kanji need to be all same size in one text. I always tended to write difficult kanji bigger 😅
It's a learning process to kind of approximate how much space you need to write a kanji, once you do it enough, you kind of have an idea of how big to write it and generally, when reading kanji, they're not looking at it like how many strokes there are and how accurate it is, it's kind of more looking at a picture and being able to discern what it's supposed to be so that even people who have very "cursive" handwriting can still be legible even though the kanji might not look exactly as it should. It's similar to say doing proper handwriting versus a "scrawl", and depending on the scrawl, it can either be very hard to read or very easy to read (we've all experienced this from say English teachers marking essays) so it just varies depending on each individual person's handwriting. But of course, if you're learning kanji, it's best to learn the proper way to write them and make them legible because that's what you're there to learn and even though getting kanji to be the "right" size is important, it's not the number one thing you (or your sensei) should be focused on.
@@Than211 thanks for the answer and taking your time to reply!
I can imagine this is a very common problem people have when first learning to write Kanji. I never got that far, myself. I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around how the language works to begin with. I am multilingual but because the languages I know are all the same or similar alphabet (shout out to you Spanish, with your double letters being a single letter. I still say they should have never gotten away with that one. It totally goes against the purpose, but I digress...) transitioning to characters is super difficult for me. I'm so used to things following a pattern and I learn by association so that just piles on more learning curves.
I hope you pick the language back up though, it's one that if I could learn it, I wouldn't be so keen to drop it.
@@paranoiarpincess unfortunately I last had japanese class in 2015. I have a japanese friend and sometimes we talk in japanese, but I forgot nearly everything. Tho it’s easy for me to get back in. The Kanji are a problem, but grammar is very simple. I am German, and the german language is by far more complicated when it comes to grammar and rules.
@@tommysara I'm glad you have an outlet at least for speaking. I actually took a german class so it is one of the languages I had learned, it was only one semester unfortunately, and I only remember one thing, but I'm pretty certain it's wrong, the spelling would be off, and I don't want to embarass myself lol. I'm sorry you lost so much of the Japanese, there are a bunch of free programs you can use to get back into it if you ever do want to.
“Come on! The punishment cant be that bad!”
“I was tasked to wrote 108 earthly desires 50 times”
“Oh thats not that bad!”
“In japanese- which means it has 108 strokes and 108 x 50 is 5400 strokes in total”
“Okayyy nevermind then!”
Joke is trying too hard
@@spriterefreshed935 yes
Bro created masterpiece
as a half japanese i can relate it💀 it's so hard to write kanji my hands were going to cry
🤭😂😂😂oh
I think this was easier than I thought it would be
Hear me out - it doesn't have convoluted long strokes but instead it is incorporating a lot of Kanji many of them are easy like child women and eat
The hardest one looks like those maps that you draw to give directions to someone but they always end up getting lost because you're bad at guiding people.
That was deadly to my ears💀
Man wrote a whole essay in that kanji
okay guys... Let's break it down, it is a word consisting of different characters including：
耳，舌，鼻，苦，平，惡，意，目，良，淨，染，女，子，身
Translation following sequence :
Ear, tongue, nose, bitterness, flatness (or justice), evilness, consciousness, eye, kindness, cleanliness (or holiness), pollution, daughter (or female), son(or male), body
and interestingly, the chinese character that has the most strokes actually has 172 strokes, and don't worry Japanese/Chinese learners,
it usually is just the combination of different common words that you've learnt, and those 'recombinant words' are very very very rare, until an extent that even natives don't know existed (which those words are not used)
flatness is indeed justice
i think its flat as in balance
NO, It's (dho) Which Has Amount Of 341 Strokes And It's The Complexed Complicated Chinese Character
Flat as in peace
Like, it's really exist just to confuse people. 108 strokes and 108 desires too obvious
I can never make my abbreviated 心 look right no matter how much I practice writing.
absolutely awesome
That hard kanji was like my designs whenever we have a project to pass
even Japanese we come across kangi which don't know how to read😰
Rest well. Your hand needs it.
They were 100% tripping on mushrooms when they came up with that one. Earthly desires as fuck.
That’s a whole ass paragraph right there..
The kanji you're told to write out a hundred times as homework versus doing the assignment as the sensei is collecting it.
He told me I'm a greedy person
Japanese: introducing 108 earthly desires
Me: *thinking Japanese was easy*
This kanji: *exists*
Also me: ya ok back to English I see
Same 😭
It's really only kanji that is difficult 😭
@@PAM_leafIf you think kanji is the only hard part, you’re in for a ride 😂
This kanji is not used even local people barely know this type of kanji.
Imagine writing this on that small box
Ok- maybe I should start learning the easy kanji first 😀✌️
It doesn’t seem like you paused at all to write it 😭 don’t tell me you memorized it just for this video 😮
It's prob made up of other well known kanji so there's not a whole lot to memorize.
Yeah its just a bunch of kanji put together, only thing he had to remember was which position to put each one
@@Undecidedable That's a very great aspect of kanji, if you already know a good 500 then the rest becomes easier because the same radicals get used over and over again in multiple different positions though with a good many you'll have to learn new radicals that only exist for just that particular kanji however it's not a huge issue.
Hardest kanji character
(Proceeds to draw a 20 storey Apartment)
Wtf the sounds of the pen is giving me chills
Me in the first few seconds of the video:
Ha Japanese Kanji are the best!😏
The same me after 5 seconds:
🤔🧐😳😶🤯😱🥺😭🥴😵👻
P.S.: ありがとうございます先生! Thank you sensei for always teaching us Japanese fun facts!!😆✨🙏🏻
Best video for end of the year! Wishing you a very Happy New year 2022!🎊🥳🎉
Thank you for all the lovely videos you put up this year!🥺✨🙏🏻
The second one is straight up a sketch for a building lmao
That kanji is like a firework show
my brain is not braining
This reminds me of how english is so convoluted that spelling correctly is literally a sport. Similar to how writing in japanese is also so complicated that it too is a national sport.
😮😮😮 If you study Japanese for a couple years it doesn’t take long to recognize every thing in that. It doesn’t look like one kanji, it looks like a sentence that’s all smooshed 😂
And then there's me thinking what a cool picture he's drawing there~
It's like you draw the sketch of any monument
こんな漢字初めて見たよ！！lol
The hardest Kanji looks like a whole damn essay
It’s literally a description. It’s a list of what ‘earthly desires’ are.
Me who is struggling with hiragana:
*Intense sweating*
You made that look so easy. Not fair!
"DEAD TIRED" HAHAHAHAHA!
That's straight up art
Your drawing is so good👍
Duuude that SOUND!!!
I’m still trying to write “person” it’s fine I’m fine everything’s fine. I can Japanese 😭
If you miss a single dot or dash does it mean something completely different, or is it just 107 earthly desires?
It's just this kanji but with a mistake
However what you said can be true for some simpler kanjis like:
水 water
氷 ice
泳 swim
@@Abra391 I was mostly joking, but that's very interesting, thank you!
First kanji: the line that separates the sky from land
Second kanji: a whole mansion
Hard kanji looks like 'city infrastructure plan ' as i saw a building and a hospital plus sign😅
見たことねぇwww
"It's Morphin time"
I’m amazed at how much ink that pen has 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
All my earthly desires died dissolved 😂
I've never used it！😂😂But my name include this ward⇒瀧. So I usually write easy version⇒滝
Man's makin a whole takeshi castle outta it
i love how god damn hilarious it is that the 108 desires kanji is very literally a bunch of smaller words jammed in a huge one
I hope this one isn't going to be on my kanji learning app. 💀💀
Well it's not really all that hard, it's just sticking a few parts together in a pretty uncomplicated way
In case you are wondering, the regularly used Kanji with the most strokes is 鬱 or utsu, meaning depression
ZAMN! That look like one of those box drawing characters you often see in text-mode MS-DOS applications.
@@namelessliberty9869 you can.
"Okay class you have an exam on ur kanji today and you have thirty minutes."
Me: Should be easy enough
Also me half an hour later: *Dead on question one*
It's like drawing a house everytime you see one out the window and you live in the city centre and in a 11th floor apartment