Yeah seriously! I bought a subscription to japanesepod101.com; it was kinda expensive, and oh lord! Turns out they cannot teach Japanese as well as Misa does; Misa is the best! This site does not even have videos for all the grammar Misa has tought so far! This is why I can confidently assure you she is the best.
Yes!! I can also recommend combining her videos with Busuu App. After listening to her explanations Busuu exercises feel so much more natural and fun and without them I would miss on a lot of exercise (that makes me somewhat addicted 🙈). But yeah, I was quite surprised to feel prepared for some grammar lessons after watching Misa’s videos. On the other hand, there is nothing to be surprised about: they are JUST GREAT 👏 Thank you, Misa and all the good people supporting her ✊👏👏👏👏👏
As a child, I was taught that 泣く (naku, to cry) came from the common tendency for children, who often cry (氵 sanzui, denoting water) while standing (立つ tatsu, to stand). Made it much easier to remember! 俺は小さい時、先生が子供が良く立ってるうち泣くんだって教えました。ミサちゃん、ありがとう！
Im Chinese and in our language the word 安 only means "safe" "peaceful", so when I found out that 安 in Japanese can also means "cheap" im lowkey confused ;)). Btw I love your content 🙆🏻♀️ ❤️
Regarding 安い. I see it as frugality. Wisdom in your purchasing. Choosing the right item, for the right price. I get it. I've heard women traditionally control the household finances in Japan, which also makes this make much more sense.
Since 安 also means "to relax" i build my own special german jingle to remember it: "Ne Frau mit Hut, chillt gut." Or in english "A woman with hat, is chilling well."
It makes me wonder if the universal meaning of the kanji is closer to a feeling of "low" since cheap, relief, stability, safety, rest, peace, etc. (words containing this kanji) all share a sense of a low/calm state of being. IIRC the kanji 女 was originally a pictograph of a woman kneeling
@@felipealvarez2404 they are. But in China (where the characters were invented) fairly unknown. Also Tempeh (Javanese) is fermented beans but afaik is not common in China.
Yeah, I think it has to do with that honestly. Tofu is like soymilk cheese isn't it? Then it's technically somewhat rotten since it needs to be fermented
I loved this way of presenting Kanji YAS!!! Its super interesting to find out whats behind the kanji and learn also the name of the components!! Please do more videos like those ones ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶☕️ Thanks Misa Sensei!
@@jiiotus you're good :) It's just that sama is used to describe someone god-like or way above you. Could be funny in an arrogant and jokingly manner :D
some kanji developed using sound-based method: - mosquito: kind of insect 虫, same reading as 文, so 蚊 - bitter/hardship: bitterness comes from grass 艸(艹), same reading as 古, so 苦 - remember: this is something related to speaking 言, almost same reading as 己, so 記 - green: has something to do with silk (green silk or something) 糸, same reading as 录 or 録, so 緑
For the 切 kanji in words like 親切 I think of a "bleeding heart" individual who cannot help but be kind to every living thing because they feel such strong emotions for them. They are the kind of person who picks up a wounded bird and fixes it's broken wing. And 大切 I think of the phrase "this cuts deep" which means that it is a deep feeling, and the phrase is usually used with negative emotions. If I feel that strongly, it also means it's important to me. Kanji can be very fun, because I like when I can come up with my own story to remember it.
@@alexanderjones3830 Oh no we pronounce the "w". At least the vast majority of the population, anyway. I've been wondering for a while but I still haven't managed to figured out the accent🤔 It sounds very posh though
It’s a Japanese thing. Modern Japanese does not have a ‘wu’ syllable the closest sound is the vowel う which is almost identical in sound to the ancient sound ‘wu’, probably why the ‘wu’ syllable was dropped.
China used to be a majority shamanic culture, they collected a lot bones for divination, and the Chinese characters developed out of oracle bones. 美 is a really interesting because it is the character for 羊 (goat or sheep) + 大 (big). It means a person of high rank wearing a headdress made from sheep horn. The ancient Chinese kings and shamans used to wear elaborate headdresses decorated with animal horns or feathers and luxurious clothes so they personified "beauty" or 美.
Also, about the Kanji 女("onna", woman). I talked to a Japanese streamer saying "I can write 女(woman)". He's proud of my achievement, but he also added that 女 is a strong word, however instead of suggesting me to say 女の人(onna no hito), he told me to say 女性(josei), instead. There's also a Kanji someone mentioned in a different stream called 姦(midara) which by the looks of it, it represents 3 women. However, the streamer said that it has a dark meaning, I looked it up and it means "adultery", like wow!
Thinking of the pigeon kanji as the "coo-bird" makes sense. Until now, I had been imaging the kanji to denote pigeons as the ninth-inning birds that show up at the end of a baseball game to eat the discarded popcorn.
I loved this video! As someone who is learning Japanese I’m really fascinated by the origins and meanings of kanji. It makes it much easier to remember as well when I hear the history behind the meaning. I wish there was a book that went through the common kanji like this.
I like the variety of themes in your channel :) I think it’s very useful and interesting to know the etymology of kanjis so I can’t wait for another lesson like this 😊 ありがとう、みさ先生
この動画は本当に面白い。でもこの「腐」の「豆腐」は"fermented"多分最高翻訳英語だ。 I don't know if that makes sense in Japanese but "fermented" is a very specific verb un english (and French) that means to "rot" or " culture" in a positive sense. Cheese and wine are both processes of this "rotting" and if there was a kanji in Japanese (and not just Katakana) they would probably be like 牛乳腐 (cheeze) and 果物腐。。。思います。 This is really interesting! Keep it up!
I absolutely LOVED this video! Kanji is so hard to learn for me but the entomology is really helping me remember what is included in a Kanji. Please make more Misa! :)
I was just thinking after you were describing the words roots (Kanji?)... came from here, could mean this or another thing, that I could really get into that aspect of the language... and suddenly you said the magic word, etymology. I love etymology, so fascinating...thank you. I will surely be watching for more of your work ! Arigato! (I think I organized that correctly). :)
Very interesting, it would be great if you would make more videos on etymology. I’d actually wondered about several of the characters you explained in this one, especially 血 and 虹.
love your english, i think its really impressiv, keep up the good work! I study japanese language and the videos will help me fill my gaps or let me remember the stuff i learned! 教 has also a really interesting and disturbing origin if my memeroies are correct.
教 = slightly hit (攵) a spoiled child (子) lied on the ground (土), is an act of education or you can develop it using sound. 教 = 孝+攵, 教 has nearly same sound as 孝 IIRCC
Possibly my favorite video you've done to this point. But so many are great. Your geeking out on etymology is endearing to a fellow word nerd! 惚れちゃう。♥️
this was really interesting! i found myself understanding the kanji better with etymology + you present it in a really fun manner ^^. as always, thank you for everything you're doing.
Can you/anyone help with where to get this information? For example, Wiktionary has this for the origin of 安: "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 女 (“a woman or a kneeling person”) - person in a kneeling position sitting on the heels at home." Doesn't mention anything about the ancestors' mausoleum. Thanks!
I have a suspicion that what Misa talks about here is folk etymology. Wiktionary's version is in perfect agreement with Chinese etymology books on this.
This video was really interesting. I'd like it if this became something like a series on this channel. I don't know how much material you could cover. But it would be really cool, and I think giving the kanji explanations makes them a little easier to remember. (a little...)
the same question bothered me form the start. Such great insight into peculiar stories of the language. Most enjoyable and memorable-) ありがとうございました as for weird sound coincidences: 'ONA' in Polish (my native language) means 'SHE'
I love etymology as well! It makes learning new languages so much more pleasant and makes you appreciate your own native one more! I really hope this series can continue for a long time, makes remembering Kanji super easy, pure pleasure!!
I love etymology as well! Looking forward to more of these videos. A friend actually told me about those sound-based Kanji the other day, but I didn't quite get it. Your examples helped a lot. This will also make it easier for me to memorize these Kanji. Great video, いつもあるがとうございます。
Please tell us more! It's great way to remeber kanjis, since you understand why they are look like that! I just find your channel this moring and I love it! Thank you for your hard work!
Etymology in Japanese kanji is not only fascinating because of understanding the meaning behind kanji put together, but also because knowing their origin might give us a more visual way to break down the kanji and make associations based on the way they connect to form a whole idea. And I know I'd definitely find kanji much easier to memorize by making such associations. Looking forward to seeing more videos like this one! It's really amazing how much love and effort are put into the making of these! Arigatou gozaimasu!
in german we have the word "einschneidend", which we use to describe events by which we are really emotionally touched.I think the english equivalent would be "imprinting". But literally translated it's like a deep-cutting experience. Something which moves you so strong, that it cuts a scar into your heart. So if you speak german that's a good way to remember both meanings of the 切 Kanji.
Hi Misa Sensei, I'm a big fan of you from China, appreciating all the works you've made! Spoken of Kanji like 蚊 or 鳩, obviously those characters were created in accordance with the phonogram rule that half makes sense and half makes pronunciation, in Chinese language, 蚊 is read exactly the same with the right part 文, and 鳩 the same case, read as the pronunciation of 九. These Kanji were loaned to Japan integrally as how they were like in ancient China. So I'm not sure 文 or 九 stand for the sound those creatures make😂, anyway your version is pretty cute as much. Thank you Misa!
Hi Misa, as a person that has been studying Japanese for a long time, this sort of video is really interesting to me. I always love hearing about kanji origins. I knew some of these but I had no idea about the sound based ones, or 安. I hope you do more of this in the future. Please do actually, haha!
That was so fascinating. I like the origin for blood. I hope Kanji Origins could become a series! Because it's so cool :D The slightly disturbing backgrounds behind them make it all the more intriguing. especially for October 🙌❤
At 12:57 As somebody who is foreign to Japanese but has a miniscule level of knowledge with kanji and some knowledge of sentence structure: Ｗｉｔｈ 親切 the せつ（切) part within this word gives me the feel of something deep in the soul of somebody, painfully deep in this context and with しん（親) gives me the feeling of somebody you are friends with has the feeling of being as close as a blood relative; like that friend is family
Thanks for another great video Misa-sensei! Definitely dig etymology in any language, but logographic writing systems like kanji make it all the more interesting.
Etymology of 蚊 character. The character is a phono-semantic character (形聲字). 虫 is the semantic part of the character and 文 is phonetic. It's because the word 文 and mosquito sounded in the same way in Old Chinese, but to distinguish two words, in writing, 虫 part was added. By the way, in modern Mandarin the two words sound the same. Then like all the other characters came to Japan from China. Japanese pronunciation か is probably from Old Japanese stem, that possible related to 噛む and 痒い。
This was fantastic, thank you! I feel similarly about German, which, due to heavy use of prefixes and suffixes can have such interesting words built. It's actually part of what attracts me to Japanese - how elegant some of these origins are.
Actually a lot of the characters come from the sound in Chinese. The character 蚊 in Chinese is pronounced the same as the character 文 in Chinese (wén), so the 文 was chosen as for its phonetic value rather than displaying any specific meaning. So the character was then borrowed into Japanese for its meaning rather than anything phonetic. It's the same for the character 鸠 where the 九 is used for its phonetic value (jiǔ and jiū).
@Probably Buddha kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of hanzi and they're literally the same thing, same meaning and Japanese merely interpreted in their own ways on some kanji but not all since there are some Japanese-made kanji too. What I'm explaining here is only about the original meaning of the 安 character in its originalChinese context
@Probably Buddha your argument is like during an english class when the teacher is explaining the origin/meaning of french borrowed words and you go like "oh no, we don't need to be taught about that, we are not learning french anyway". so surely one doesn't have to pick up chinese language to understand the chinese origin of a kanji too. like it or not, kanji (hanzi) is an integral part of the japanese and those who think that the origin doesn't matter is not gonna fully appreciate and comprehend the true beauty/essence of japanese either, whether they care or not. the unique characteristic of logogram means that almost all kanji/hanzi (except for a few japanese-made kanji) shared the same origin/meaning which is why Misa made this video to highlight a few interesting cases when the japanese interpretation strays too far away from its original context. this extra piece of info might be useless to you but im sure those serious japanese learners would find it useful.
In America, we have a phrase "to be cut from the same cloth" which means "these two things are really similar" kind of like saying that two things are so similar they seem like they come from the same source so seeing the kanji PARENT and TO CUT makes me think of that
I’m mega late to this video, but anyway... This video’s great, and super helpful if you’re learning Japanese with no Chinese knowledge, but 鳩 and 蚊 have nothing to do with the sounds animals make. The sound radicals (九, 文) are from (Mandarin) Chinese, and it’s just because the words “dove” and “mosquitoes” sound like “nine” and “sentence” in that language. 九 - jiǔ 鳩 - jiū 文 - wèn 蚊 - wén Having one radical for sound and one for meaning is extremely common in Chinese, and not all of the cases translate well to Japanese, since pronunciation is so different.
Yes. Something didn't check out for me because I knew kanji come from China so they couldn't have been formed based on Japanese sounds or sounds of animals in Japanese.
This video kindof reassured me that, whenever I'm confused by the meaning of words, phrases or the dreaded kanji, that's fine. Because even native Japanese people can get confused from time to time, and need to look things up. :) I'm also fascinated by dark stories in history. So I'm tempted to learn about more kanji origins now. Thanks Misa, as always. :)
I took Japanese in college in 2013(ish) & I remember my professor telling us that if/when we begin learning kanji that it would be really fun once we figured out a few of them & after watching this video I can absolutely see what she meant by that. I speak spanish (& english obviously) so when Sensei Misa was explaining kind/gentle it totally made sense how parent (intimate/nurture feeling/friend) and cut (deeply/profoundly/dear) put together means kind. It's conveying the feeling and the depth of the feeling which is: kind/gentle. And it makes even more sense when I use spanish to translate the meaning but I digress. What a very good teacher Misa, thank you so much Misa you're pretty awesome!
I find 笑 (laugh) interesting. Why is it made up of 竹 (bamboo) + 夭 (early death) ? I chuckled when I heard someone say: "You can't spell slaughter without laughter" Then learning Kanji I came across 笑 and unfortunately now remember it by imagining a guy watching people fall into his bamboo pit like it's the funniest thing in the world 😅 Basically now I see it as Light Yagami's crazy laugh 😓
As someone who wants to learn more Kanji, I find this really helpful After watching this, I doubt I'll ever forget how to write the kanji for mosquito 😂😂 Thank you, Misa-sensei! And Iove these kinds of videos, too!
My fav is 姦, which is basically 3 "woman" kanji combined. This kanji means "wicked, mischief, seduce, rape, noisy". Three women do get very noisy, that's for sure
I just discovered your channel! This video is great!! You pronounce the Japanese so slowly and repeat it so I can understand, and the subtitles are super useful too 😁🙏🏼 thank youuu
Misa-sensei, I think you should look at it this way. When learning Chinese kanji you don't really think about the character, you memorize it, the makeup of the radical/character just makes sense(sometimes). It's not something you think about everytime you see the character so looking at the character is just like looking at an image, you just know the meaning and pronunciation. So don't get too upset about it. As for why 安was used, after you listed the other meanings, restful, safe, I like to add fair, and balanced to those, it's not the official meaning but those come to mind. I know this video is almost 3 years old but I'm just throwing it out there, just think of it as fair price=cheap, haha.
Thank you for this lesson!! I really like this type of lessons. I also love hearing hearing sentences using the vocabulary in regular use cases. A video full in Japanese at normal speed would be nice to hear and watch too!!.. It's always a pleasure to watch your channel ミサ先生!!
This video seems perfectly timed for me. when I learned the word for cheap last week I was so weirded out by how similar it is to the kanji for woman. Thx Misa
Loved that video. Solved so many questions that were stuck in my head! It would be so awesome if you could do a video in which you only speak japanese with subtitles, Misa!
"All humans should equally be cheap." - Misa 2019
That is true equality.
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She's not wrong 😂
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I think all slaves should cost the same, no matter the age, sex, or muscle mass.
You are seriously the best TH-cam sensei ever.
Yeah seriously! I bought a subscription to japanesepod101.com; it was kinda expensive, and oh lord! Turns out they cannot teach Japanese as well as Misa does; Misa is the best! This site does not even have videos for all the grammar Misa has tought so far! This is why I can confidently assure you she is the best.
@@adolfo7220 wow that is awesome. Yea I just found her recently and her lessons have such detail in them and she's so fun too!
Yes!! I can also recommend combining her videos with Busuu App. After listening to her explanations Busuu exercises feel so much more natural and fun and without them I would miss on a lot of exercise (that makes me somewhat addicted 🙈). But yeah, I was quite surprised to feel prepared for some grammar lessons after watching Misa’s videos. On the other hand, there is nothing to be surprised about: they are JUST GREAT 👏 Thank you, Misa and all the good people supporting her ✊👏👏👏👏👏
As a child, I was taught that 泣く (naku, to cry) came from the common tendency for children, who often cry (氵 sanzui, denoting water) while standing (立つ tatsu, to stand). Made it much easier to remember!
俺は小さい時、先生が子供が良く立ってるうち泣くんだって教えました。ミサちゃん、ありがとう！
Etymology is the most interesting part of studying Kanji. I'm looking forward for a part 2 :D
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@@triggeredravioli Entomology: beetle tendency
Im Chinese and in our language the word 安 only means "safe" "peaceful", so when I found out that 安 in Japanese can also means "cheap" im lowkey confused ;)). Btw I love your content 🙆🏻♀️ ❤️
I would love to see more videos like this one. knowing the etymology makes it so much easier for me to remember the kanji.
Regarding 安い. I see it as frugality. Wisdom in your purchasing. Choosing the right item, for the right price. I get it. I've heard women traditionally control the household finances in Japan, which also makes this make much more sense.
This was super interesting! I'm also really curious about the origins of kanji came from and this was an enjoyable way to learn, thank you Misa!
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Yay! Origins of kanji is one of my favorite topics. I find it much easier to remember a kanji when I know its story. Please do more of these!
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Since 安 also means "to relax" i build my own special german jingle to remember it: "Ne Frau mit Hut, chillt gut." Or in english "A woman with hat, is chilling well."
Hahaha, das muss ich mir merken
とても面白かったです❗️Cheers!
安 also means peace or rest.
So if you have a roof, and a woman (wife), you can rest.
Andy W. 安息、安心、平安、安全:)))
@@forteadventure5828 what do they mean? I know them individually (except for the last one),but do they mean combined?
Axel /Lea 安息 rest
安心 relief
平安 peace
安全 safe
But these all are not only those meanings
@@forteadventure5828 thanks.
It makes me wonder if the universal meaning of the kanji is closer to a feeling of "low"
since cheap, relief, stability, safety, rest, peace, etc. (words containing this kanji) all share a sense of a low/calm state of being.
IIRC the kanji 女 was originally a pictograph of a woman kneeling
16:13 I thought that when they say rotten tofu they mean fermented, so it means fermented beans or something like that
Haze Draco I thought exactly the same and it makes a lot of sense to me!
I think, it rather means "processed beans"
What about nattou? aren't those fermented beans?
@@felipealvarez2404 they are. But in China (where the characters were invented) fairly unknown. Also Tempeh (Javanese) is fermented beans but afaik is not common in China.
Yeah, I think it has to do with that honestly.
Tofu is like soymilk cheese isn't it? Then it's technically somewhat rotten since it needs to be fermented
I loved this way of presenting Kanji YAS!!! Its super interesting to find out whats behind the kanji and learn also the name of the components!! Please do more videos like those ones ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶☕️ Thanks Misa Sensei!
Yes Misa-sensei, we need more videos with origins of kanjis . Etymology is interesting thing.
sama? lol
@@MarkusAndersen96 wrong use of suffix? edited .
@@jiiotus you're good :) It's just that sama is used to describe someone god-like or way above you. Could be funny in an arrogant and jokingly manner :D
語源は漢字や単語を覚えることを容易にするから、本当に役に立つ動画です。そんな動画はぜひ作り続けてください。
some kanji developed using sound-based method:
- mosquito: kind of insect 虫, same reading as 文, so 蚊
- bitter/hardship: bitterness comes from grass 艸(艹), same reading as 古, so 苦
- remember: this is something related to speaking 言, almost same reading as 己, so 記
- green: has something to do with silk (green silk or something) 糸, same reading as 录 or 録, so 緑
Strictly speaking
古→ko
苦→ku
録→roku
緑→ryoku
For the 切 kanji in words like 親切 I think of a "bleeding heart" individual who cannot help but be kind to every living thing because they feel such strong emotions for them. They are the kind of person who picks up a wounded bird and fixes it's broken wing. And 大切 I think of the phrase "this cuts deep" which means that it is a deep feeling, and the phrase is usually used with negative emotions. If I feel that strongly, it also means it's important to me.
Kanji can be very fun, because I like when I can come up with my own story to remember it.
The reference I used to memorize "woman" was kunoichi.
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So cool that it works with the stroke order too!
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This was a very good lesson.
I would like see more like that.
Please consider a serie.
I’m now realizing every time you said the word “woman” in the past, I thought you were saying “human” 😂
Seems she drops the W sound. Maybe British accent?
@@alexanderjones3830 Oh no we pronounce the "w". At least the vast majority of the population, anyway. I've been wondering for a while but I still haven't managed to figured out the accent🤔 It sounds very posh though
@@alexanderjones3830 I always thought it was an Australian accent.
It’s a Japanese thing. Modern Japanese does not have a ‘wu’ syllable the closest sound is the vowel う which is almost identical in sound to the ancient sound ‘wu’, probably why the ‘wu’ syllable was dropped.
Probably because "wo" is often pronounced "o" in Japanese? Also "w" in modern Japanese seems to me to be softer than in English.
China used to be a majority shamanic culture, they collected a lot bones for divination, and the Chinese characters developed out of oracle bones. 美 is a really interesting because it is the character for 羊 (goat or sheep) + 大 (big). It means a person of high rank wearing a headdress made from sheep horn. The ancient Chinese kings and shamans used to wear elaborate headdresses decorated with animal horns or feathers and luxurious clothes so they personified "beauty" or 美.
The etymology helps me remember kanji! It's so interesting! Please make more etymology videos!
Yeah, I found that too. It's super helpful.
Also, about the Kanji 女("onna", woman). I talked to a Japanese streamer saying "I can write 女(woman)". He's proud of my achievement, but he also added that 女 is a strong word, however instead of suggesting me to say 女の人(onna no hito), he told me to say 女性(josei), instead. There's also a Kanji someone mentioned in a different stream called 姦(midara) which by the looks of it, it represents 3 women. However, the streamer said that it has a dark meaning, I looked it up and it means "adultery", like wow!
This is very interesting, thanks a lot for this video. I love videos that detail the meaning/ origins of Kanji.
Thinking of the pigeon kanji as the "coo-bird" makes sense. Until now, I had been imaging the kanji to denote pigeons as the ninth-inning birds that show up at the end of a baseball game to eat the discarded popcorn.
WE'VE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS IN THE CLASS AND TH-cam RECOMMEND THIS LIKE MAGIC..
I loved this video! As someone who is learning Japanese I’m really fascinated by the origins and meanings of kanji. It makes it much easier to remember as well when I hear the history behind the meaning. I wish there was a book that went through the common kanji like this.
I like the variety of themes in your channel :) I think it’s very useful and interesting to know the etymology of kanjis so I can’t wait for another lesson like this 😊 ありがとう、みさ先生
この動画は本当に面白い。でもこの「腐」の「豆腐」は"fermented"多分最高翻訳英語だ。
I don't know if that makes sense in Japanese but "fermented" is a very specific verb un english (and French) that means to "rot" or " culture" in a positive sense. Cheese and wine are both processes of this "rotting" and if there was a kanji in Japanese (and not just Katakana) they would probably be like 牛乳腐 (cheeze) and 果物腐。。。思います。
This is really interesting! Keep it up!
I absolutely LOVED this video! Kanji is so hard to learn for me but the entomology is really helping me remember what is included in a Kanji. Please make more Misa! :)
There are only nine pigeons in the world, one of them is just very fast.
I was just thinking after you were describing the words roots (Kanji?)... came from here, could mean this or another thing, that I could really get into that aspect of the language... and suddenly you said the magic word, etymology. I love etymology, so fascinating...thank you. I will surely be watching for more of your work ! Arigato! (I think I organized that correctly). :)
Very interesting, it would be great if you would make more videos on etymology. I’d actually wondered about several of the characters you explained in this one, especially 血 and 虹.
I've missed you, sensei. thank you for this another useful video. 💖
It´s always easier for me to learn Kanji when I hear an interesting story about it. Very good video!
love your english, i think its really impressiv, keep up the good work! I study japanese language and the videos will help me fill my gaps or let me remember the stuff i learned! 教 has also a really interesting and disturbing origin if my memeroies are correct.
教 = slightly hit (攵) a spoiled child (子) lied on the ground (土), is an act of education
or you can develop it using sound.
教 = 孝+攵, 教 has nearly same sound as 孝 IIRCC
Possibly my favorite video you've done to this point. But so many are great. Your geeking out on etymology is endearing to a fellow word nerd! 惚れちゃう。♥️
I’ll never be able to walk past a pigeon ever again without hearing it saying „nine,nine,nine“ in my head😂😂
Etymology is interesting for me too!
I think it would be cool if you made a series about Kanjis and their origins :)
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this was really interesting! i found myself understanding the kanji better with etymology + you present it in a really fun manner ^^.
as always, thank you for everything you're doing.
Thank you for this video! I also enjoy learning word origins (in whatever language) and they often help me remember the word's definition.
Fun connection, ona also means she in slavic countries
Wow! Your lessons are so interesting and helpful! I'm gonna watch all the videos on your channel. Thank you so much!
Can you/anyone help with where to get this information? For example, Wiktionary has this for the origin of 安: "Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 女 (“a woman or a kneeling person”) - person in a kneeling position sitting on the heels at home." Doesn't mention anything about the ancestors' mausoleum. Thanks!
I have a suspicion that what Misa talks about here is folk etymology. Wiktionary's version is in perfect agreement with Chinese etymology books on this.
This video was really interesting. I'd like it if this became something like a series on this channel. I don't know how much material you could cover. But it would be really cool, and I think giving the kanji explanations makes them a little easier to remember. (a little...)
I watched all your videos from first to this and only recently cought up. Took me couple of months. Please don't stop these. 良い仕事を続けてください
the same question bothered me form the start. Such great insight into peculiar stories of the language. Most enjoyable and memorable-) ありがとうございました as for weird sound coincidences: 'ONA' in Polish (my native language) means 'SHE'
I like this kind of video a lot. Having a story to attach to a kanji makes it so much easier to remember.
I have been subbed to you for like a month now and finally realized how genius the channel name is. Well done i love it :D
I love etymology as well! It makes learning new languages so much more pleasant and makes you appreciate your own native one more! I really hope this series can continue for a long time, makes remembering Kanji super easy, pure pleasure!!
I love etymology as well! Looking forward to more of these videos. A friend actually told me about those sound-based Kanji the other day, but I didn't quite get it. Your examples helped a lot. This will also make it easier for me to memorize these Kanji. Great video, いつもあるがとうございます。
I did not review this until now and I forgot how good it was. Your work is so varied and rich. Many thanks Sensei.
Please tell us more! It's great way to remeber kanjis, since you understand why they are look like that! I just find your channel this moring and I love it! Thank you for your hard work!
An etomology series would be amazing!
I'm currently trying to study all Jyouyou Kanji in about 4 months and these stories really helped me solidify my knowledge! Thank you!
Etymology in Japanese kanji is not only fascinating because of understanding the meaning behind kanji put together, but also because knowing their origin might give us a more visual way to break down the kanji and make associations based on the way they connect to form a whole idea. And I know I'd definitely find kanji much easier to memorize by making such associations.
Looking forward to seeing more videos like this one! It's really amazing how much love and effort are put into the making of these! Arigatou gozaimasu!
The bunbunbun insect and the kukuku bird. Won't ever forget those kanji. Thank you 😊
in german we have the word "einschneidend", which we use to describe events by which we are really emotionally touched.I think the english equivalent would be "imprinting". But literally translated it's like a deep-cutting experience. Something which moves you so strong, that it cuts a scar into your heart. So if you speak german that's a good way to remember both meanings of the 切 Kanji.
You are very sweet Misa and I enjoy your way of teaching very much! Also I LOVE Japanese especially Kanji a lot! A huge hug from Spain!!!!😙😙😙
Excellent! I find learning kanji actually quite a bit of fun if I know the reasons or stories behind them. More videos like this, please ! :)
Hi Misa Sensei, I'm a big fan of you from China, appreciating all the works you've made! Spoken of Kanji like 蚊 or 鳩, obviously those characters were created in accordance with the phonogram rule that half makes sense and half makes pronunciation, in Chinese language, 蚊 is read exactly the same with the right part 文, and 鳩 the same case, read as the pronunciation of 九. These Kanji were loaned to Japan integrally as how they were like in ancient China. So I'm not sure 文 or 九 stand for the sound those creatures make😂, anyway your version is pretty cute as much. Thank you Misa!
Hi Misa, as a person that has been studying Japanese for a long time, this sort of video is really interesting to me. I always love hearing about kanji origins. I knew some of these but I had no idea about the sound based ones, or 安. I hope you do more of this in the future. Please do actually, haha!
That was so fascinating. I like the origin for blood. I hope Kanji Origins could become a series! Because it's so cool :D
The slightly disturbing backgrounds behind them make it all the more intriguing. especially for October 🙌❤
At 12:57 As somebody who is foreign to Japanese but has a miniscule level of knowledge with kanji and some knowledge of sentence structure: Ｗｉｔｈ 親切 the せつ（切) part within this word gives me the feel of something deep in the soul of somebody, painfully deep in this context and with しん（親) gives me the feeling of somebody you are friends with has the feeling of being as close as a blood relative; like that friend is family
本当に面白かったよ！ I love this kind of videos, please keep it up!
Thanks for another great video Misa-sensei! Definitely dig etymology in any language, but logographic writing systems like kanji make it all the more interesting.
Etymology of 蚊 character.
The character is a phono-semantic character (形聲字).
虫 is the semantic part of the character and 文 is phonetic. It's because the word 文 and mosquito sounded in the same way in Old Chinese, but to distinguish two words, in writing, 虫 part was added. By the way, in modern Mandarin the two words sound the same.
Then like all the other characters came to Japan from China.
Japanese pronunciation か is probably from Old Japanese stem, that possible related to 噛む and 痒い。
This was fantastic, thank you! I feel similarly about German, which, due to heavy use of prefixes and suffixes can have such interesting words built.
It's actually part of what attracts me to Japanese - how elegant some of these origins are.
Actually a lot of the characters come from the sound in Chinese. The character 蚊 in Chinese is pronounced the same as the character 文 in Chinese (wén), so the 文 was chosen as for its phonetic value rather than displaying any specific meaning. So the character was then borrowed into Japanese for its meaning rather than anything phonetic. It's the same for the character 鸠 where the 九 is used for its phonetic value (jiǔ and jiū).
安 means cheap in japanese only, the original chinese never means that
actually means something closer to relax/loose in chinese
Low prices leave me feeling relieved I suppose.
@@TotalWarKS loose or relaxed prices makes sense
@Probably Buddha kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of hanzi and they're literally the same thing, same meaning and Japanese merely interpreted in their own ways on some kanji but not all since there are some Japanese-made kanji too. What I'm explaining here is only about the original meaning of the 安 character in its originalChinese context
@Probably Buddha your argument is like during an english class when the teacher is explaining the origin/meaning of french borrowed words and you go like "oh no, we don't need to be taught about that, we are not learning french anyway". so surely one doesn't have to pick up chinese language to understand the chinese origin of a kanji too. like it or not, kanji (hanzi) is an integral part of the japanese and those who think that the origin doesn't matter is not gonna fully appreciate and comprehend the true beauty/essence of japanese either, whether they care or not. the unique characteristic of logogram means that almost all kanji/hanzi (except for a few japanese-made kanji) shared the same origin/meaning which is why Misa made this video to highlight a few interesting cases when the japanese interpretation strays too far away from its original context. this extra piece of info might be useless to you but im sure those serious japanese learners would find it useful.
I really love this video I think you should do more like this explaining kanji and their breakdowns very informative. Plus your just so ちょとかわいい
'so chotto kawaii' doesnt really make sense
chotto is a little
kawaii is, well, cute
so your saying, 'very a little cute'
18:36 "Rainbows are not bugs." actually had me laughing, it's so punny.😂
Love etymology, great lesson! ❤
In America, we have a phrase "to be cut from the same cloth" which means "these two things are really similar"
kind of like saying that two things are so similar they seem like they come from the same source
so seeing the kanji PARENT and TO CUT makes me think of that
I’m mega late to this video, but anyway...
This video’s great, and super helpful if you’re learning Japanese with no Chinese knowledge, but 鳩 and 蚊 have nothing to do with the sounds animals make.
The sound radicals (九, 文) are from (Mandarin) Chinese, and it’s just because the words “dove” and “mosquitoes” sound like “nine” and “sentence” in that language.
九 - jiǔ 鳩 - jiū
文 - wèn 蚊 - wén
Having one radical for sound and one for meaning is extremely common in Chinese, and not all of the cases translate well to Japanese, since pronunciation is so different.
Yes. Something didn't check out for me because I knew kanji come from China so they couldn't have been formed based on Japanese sounds or sounds of animals in Japanese.
I love your teaching.It helps me to memorize kanji.
In chinese安 means SAFE.The word derives from the notion that Women should stay at home because it would be safe for them .It is an old prejudice
In Japanese too. 「安らぎ」「安心」means SAFE.
Chinese “安” ‘s origin means “woman(女) in house(ウ)” = “SAFE”, isn’t it?
安全 means safe in Japanese too
Prejudice? Do you understand how violent and unsafe the world was centuries ago? It is outdated, but definitely not prejudice
I like this type of video breaking down kanji. Thanks sense Misa
This video kindof reassured me that, whenever I'm confused by the meaning of words, phrases or the dreaded kanji, that's fine. Because even native Japanese people can get confused from time to time, and need to look things up. :)
I'm also fascinated by dark stories in history. So I'm tempted to learn about more kanji origins now.
Thanks Misa, as always. :)
I took Japanese in college in 2013(ish) & I remember my professor telling us that if/when we begin learning kanji that it would be really fun once we figured out a few of them & after watching this video I can absolutely see what she meant by that.
I speak spanish (& english obviously) so when Sensei Misa was explaining kind/gentle it totally made sense how parent (intimate/nurture feeling/friend) and cut (deeply/profoundly/dear) put together means kind. It's conveying the feeling and the depth of the feeling which is: kind/gentle. And it makes even more sense when I use spanish to translate the meaning but I digress.
What a very good teacher Misa, thank you so much Misa you're pretty awesome!
This was a great video! Please make more if you have the time. Etymology and word origins are always interesting!
i realy like how the kanji 好 contains the kanji for 女 and 子 :D
I love this video! Learning the etymology of a word always helps me to learn and remember it better!
Loved it! thanks Misa!
Thank you so much for sharing 🎶 I loved this video!
Wow the 親切 I can feel its meaning very strongly now. When you understand the etymology it really changes how you view the word
I find 笑 (laugh) interesting. Why is it made up of 竹 (bamboo) + 夭 (early death) ?
I chuckled when I heard someone say:
"You can't spell slaughter without laughter"
Then learning Kanji I came across 笑 and unfortunately now remember it by imagining a guy watching people fall into his bamboo pit like it's the funniest thing in the world 😅
Basically now I see it as Light Yagami's crazy laugh 😓
That was super interesting and it is obvious that you're super passionate about this topic! Please more videos like this
That was really interesting! Please make another like this! Thank you for your hard work Misa!
you are the really best teacher for nihongo learning...
I love this
Learning about the etymology of the Kanji makes it so much easier to remenber them
As someone who wants to learn more Kanji, I find this really helpful
After watching this, I doubt I'll ever forget how to write the kanji for mosquito 😂😂
Thank you, Misa-sensei! And Iove these kinds of videos, too!
My fav is 姦, which is basically 3 "woman" kanji combined. This kanji means "wicked, mischief, seduce, rape, noisy". Three women do get very noisy, that's for sure
I just discovered your channel! This video is great!! You pronounce the Japanese so slowly and repeat it so I can understand, and the subtitles are super useful too 😁🙏🏼 thank youuu
Misa-sensei, I think you should look at it this way. When learning Chinese kanji you don't really think about the character, you memorize it, the makeup of the radical/character just makes sense(sometimes). It's not something you think about everytime you see the character so looking at the character is just like looking at an image, you just know the meaning and pronunciation. So don't get too upset about it. As for why 安was used, after you listed the other meanings, restful, safe, I like to add fair, and balanced to those, it's not the official meaning but those come to mind. I know this video is almost 3 years old but I'm just throwing it out there, just think of it as fair price=cheap, haha.
Thank you for this lesson!! I really like this type of lessons. I also love hearing hearing sentences using the vocabulary in regular use cases. A video full in Japanese at normal speed would be nice to hear and watch too!!..
It's always a pleasure to watch your channel ミサ先生!!
This video seems perfectly timed for me. when I learned the word for cheap last week I was so weirded out by how similar it is to the kanji for woman. Thx Misa
Don't be, there are a ton of kanji that incorporate the kanji for woman
@@dhu2056 That's a well known piece of chinese "brilliance"
@@chicoti3 not quite
@@dhu2056 I don't think you understood me. I meant to say that this kanji's infamy is well known, thus, not surprisingly, I too know about it.
@@chicoti3 oh ok
I googled why there’s 女 in 安い and this video came up to me I love it 🥰 面白かったです！
Loved that video. Solved so many questions that were stuck in my head!
It would be so awesome if you could do a video in which you only speak japanese with subtitles, Misa!