I never thought that hiragana was based on existing symbols and were *also* made to represent the pronunciations of the respective symbols (most of them at least), that's really cool
As a person who has learned chinese for the past 11 years and trying to learn japanese, seeing all these hiragana characters breakdown is mindblowing :00
@Juke See I was making a joke, because doctors are known for having such bad writing, that their writing ends up looking completely different from the original symbols.
@@li_tsz_fung You don't know what you are talking about. This video shows how "Hiragana=ひらがな" was been made. Hiragana is also written as 「平仮名」, which 仮名 already means "broken characters". So basically, this video shows how did the Chinese characters (we Japanese call them kanji=漢字) got into broken characters, and even more broken that it becomes a set of Japanese alphabet, Hiragana. We think as the 草書 as something like cursive writing. Besides, 草書 is broken characters. In ancient China, pictures became into Character letters, that became 篆書, which 篆書 became 隷書, that 隷書 gets simplified into 楷書, 行書 and 草書. 草書 is the most broken font style to write, it was made for writing on papers. Don't you learn that in wherever your country is?
Oh, now I cannot unseen this. The japanese writing looks like something I would write when I was small and lazy to practise my Chinese writing, then i skipped few strokes and simply drew it...Lol
Hiragana comes from a kind of writing style of Chinese character named Cao shu. Katagana comes from another kind of writing style of Chinese character named Kai shu. In a word both them come from Chinese character. These two writing style are usd in calligraphy. But we Chinese use kai shu (also kai to) in our daily life.
Japan imported kanji/Chinese character, Chinese culture and administrative system until 9th century but collapse of the Tang dynasty caused the Japanese people to stop learning from China, then they began to grow their own culture, including Hiragana.
Look at handwritings by Zhu Geliang 諸葛孔明 or Si mayi 司馬懿 from the Three Kingdoms period and you’ll be surprised at how similar the cursive writings look like hiragana. Some are even the same. You can see ゐ ふ は in Zhu Geliang’s handwriting. And that’s hundreds of years before the Tang Dynasty. I fully respect Japanese culture but to say that hiragana is Japan’s own culture/creation is rather misleading. I find katakana to be more of a Japanese invention.
I’m so glad Japanese doesn’t use those ancient squiggles that were between Chinese characters and Hiragana. I can’t imagine trying to read those, let alone write. Damn.
The characters in between are not really “characters”. They’re a certain writing style developed in ancient China, called 草书, literally “careless/messy scripts”. It was somehow reserved to the higher class people, as lower class didn’t even read. Tho people nowadays no longer write that way (I doubt they ever write anymore), it’s still a living art form of Chinese calligraphy.
@un fudanshi cualquiera Hiragana is a phonetic characters, Chinese also has a set of auxiliary phonetic characters, but using English alphabet, the shape and pronunciation of the hiragana is similar to some Chinese characters, which is helpful for memory. The shape of kanji is easy, and the pronunciation need more practice. The most difficult thing is Japanese grammar, which is quite different. Chinese grammar is even closer to English.
それは日本人の私達でも困惑しています。 That is confused even Japanese people おそらく、それぞれの地方で漢字の略し方が違って平仮名を統一して作った時にどれとも似ていない形にしたんでしょうね I think that "before Hiragana letter" has a slang, and then 部 become へ when we makes Hiragana of national letter and then 部 become へ when we makes Hiragana of national letter Sorry my bad English
Beautiful writing. Woould you compose english with your thoughts. I am from Taiwan. I am illiteracy what you are composing. Interprete for me. I want to learn your dialect which is native language. I have no idea how to speak japanese. But I must not to learn these words. Just to learn oral dialogue. That is it.
Интересно. Старинная русская азбука и церковнославянский алфавит тоже на иероглифы похожи немножко. Только в японском и китайском каждый иероглиф - это целое слово? Так?
Церковнославянский алфавит напоминает иероглифы потому что он основан на греческом алфавите и старославянской глаголице. Эти два алфавита и так дадут довольно гремучую смесь при совмещении, но церковнославянский ещё содержал значительные дополнения (эстетические, в первую очередь) и от славянских писцов. Оттого он, со своими украшениями и дополнениями, иероглифы и напоминает. Если же посмотреть на берестяные грамоты или даже на ранние версии петровского гражданского шрифта, то никакой иероглифики вы не заметите, так как людям проще было писать без украшений, свойственных церковному алфавиту. Хирагана и катакана, в общем-то, родились похожим образом. Взяли перегруженные китайские иероглифы и просто упростили их написание. Так и получились две японские слоговые азбуки.
これを考えた人って本当に凄いよね…今更ながら。
途中の未完成の字の”面倒くさいけどここまで略しちゃっていいのか迷っている”感が好き
なんか言い得て妙なの草
@@雫-i1n そんなコメントダメ！
I never thought that hiragana was based on existing symbols and were *also* made to represent the pronunciations of the respective symbols (most of them at least), that's really cool
Me too
That's pritty similar to the difference between block style and writing style. Hiragana is originally made for fast writing in casual note taking.
文字を崩しても美しいひらがなって、、、好き、、、😢
One of the most beautiful writing systems in the world is Japan's hiragana and katakana ! They're aesthetically pleasing to the eye
Then you have the nightmare fuel Kanji
네!
Also very difficult to write properly
Indeed 🇯🇵🌸
@@amohogride3739 Not really. It's all about building up on basic blocks.
漢字とひらがなの間のやつが1番好き
漢字圏の人に平仮名の根拠は漢字の草書体であることを教えるのに、ちょうどいい教材になります。元の漢字がわかれば、華人もきれいな仮名文字を書けるようになると思います。
He is my inspiration to practice and study more japanese.
Thst is high praise.
As a person who has learned chinese for the past 11 years and trying to learn japanese, seeing all these hiragana characters breakdown is mindblowing :00
Basically Chinese cursive
Merits aside, the Japanese system makes a good case for practicality. People like practical things, which is why the kana stuck around like they did.
ひらがなはその昔に女文字、女性が文字を漢字より書きやすいようにと崩し文字が出来てひらがなができたと覚えています。平仮名ができたことに感謝しかないです。
漢字と平仮名の途中の字なんて普段書く事も見る事もないのに、なぜそんなに早く巧く書きなれた様に書けるのか不思議。
それは 草書と 言います。
So, hiragana comes from the handwriting of Japanese doctors 🤔
Lmao so true
I thought the o (お) was supposed to be wa (わ) or re (れ)
@Juke See I was making a joke, because doctors are known for having such bad writing, that their writing ends up looking completely different from the original symbols.
@Jack Amano r/whoosh
haha funny. Many hiragana letters are exactly the same as the corresponding Chinese cursive script for purely calligraphy
@@gokete3555 so true 1!!1
I love how cute hiragana is especially with all the curves and swirls. It’s aesthetically pleasing.
And satisfying to write.
The truly amazing thing is that the Japanese realized they needed hiragana.
日本人がひらがなが必要だと気づいたことは本当に驚くべきことです。
Law of Least Effort at play. Simplify whenever possible.
I'm just blown away by calligraphy of that caliber with a ballpoint pen. I'm still struggling with a brush
To be fair Takumi-sensei has years of practice.
第二段階が勝手にひらがなに近づき過ぎて冷めるやつもあるな…
たくみさん漢字とひらがなだけでもすごいのに第二段階が上手すぎる！
自主学習の参考にさせていただきました✨
私は日本に住む日本人です。
あなたの字はとても上手いです。
とても尊敬します。
在日日本人の方ですね。
日本語お上手ですね！
こういう人多くねw
ただの日本人で草
I know he's shodoka and the ji's will be perfect but I just can't stop being impressed. So motivating!!
やっぱたくみさんは
すっげーや！
I always wondered about this. Thanks! And it's so, so beautiful 🥰
崩し文字をすらすら書けるたくみんさんが凄すぎる(๑◕︵◕๑)
It's not broken characters, it's 草書. Is that not mentioned in Japanese school?
@@li_tsz_fung 第二种写法应该来自章草。或者说参考了章草的写法。
@@li_tsz_fung In Japanese, we call simplifying characters as「崩す(kuzu-su)」 , so 崩し文字(simplified character) contains 草書, I think.
@@li_tsz_fung
You don't know what you are talking about.
This video shows how "Hiragana=ひらがな" was been made.
Hiragana is also written as 「平仮名」,
which 仮名 already means "broken characters".
So basically, this video shows how did the Chinese characters
(we Japanese call them kanji=漢字)
got into broken characters, and even more broken that it becomes a set of Japanese alphabet, Hiragana.
We think as the 草書 as something like
cursive writing.
Besides, 草書 is broken characters.
In ancient China, pictures became into
Character letters, that became 篆書,
which 篆書 became 隷書, that 隷書 gets simplified into 楷書, 行書 and 草書.
草書 is the most broken font style to write, it was made for writing on papers.
Don't you learn that in wherever your country is?
それಠ◡ಠ
間違えずに書けてすごい
Oh, now I cannot unseen this.
The japanese writing looks like something I would write when I was small and lazy to practise my Chinese writing, then i skipped few strokes and simply drew it...Lol
めっちゃ筆圧強そうに見えるけど、実際はどうなんだろう
手書きの美しい進化。
The second one is like when you’re too lazy to write anymore
It's from the period when everyone is a doctor.
凄く分かりやすい
Hiragana comes from a kind of writing style of Chinese character named Cao shu.
Katagana comes from another kind of writing style of Chinese character named Kai shu.
In a word both them come from Chinese character.
These two writing style are usd in calligraphy. But we Chinese use kai shu (also kai to) in our daily life.
Chinese; Japanese; Korean
楷書 - Kai shu; Kai sho; Hä sö
草書 - Cao shu; Sō sho; Cho sö
書く✍伝説の🙌
よかった！ちょうど全部のひらがな昔のやつにしないと○されるので助かりました！
ペンなんかでここまで綺麗に書けるとか
もう「書く」を越えて「描く」やん。
鉛筆シャーペンは別だけど毛筆だとひらがなは上手く書くのが難しい
ちゃんと才能を発揮するの草
用原子筆寫草書真厲害👍
中間の文字時代に生活してた人達すごいw禰と禮にひらがなが出来た時はみんな喜んだろうなぁw
当然のことですが、
漢字から平仮名へと崩れていく
過程はいきなりこの動画の２段階目
になるわけではありません。
漢字と平仮名の間の過程には
もっと多くの段階があります。
なので、
この動画の２段階目の時点で
元の漢字とはまったく似ていない
平仮名に近いもの(美→み等)
があったり、
元の漢字とあまり
変わらないもの(乃→の等)
があったり、
元の漢字とも平仮名とも
似ていないもの(部→へ等)
があったりします。
これ上に上げるべき
中国の草書体の美は動画に出てくるみの2段階とほぼ一緒だから、少なくとも日本に来た段階ではもうそうなってるんじゃないかと思います
日本と中国の間で相互に変化しあってできたものも当然あるでしょうね
良くも悪くも活字の出現により自体の変化は今後目立たないかもしれませんが、書道の中でさらなる変化はあるかもしれませんね
omg this guy's writing is so perfect I can hear my teacher going "tsk .. ii desuneee"
I havent seen those words in the middle column. It is the first time I know how they evolute from Chinese to Japanese. Thanks a lot.
That pen is so damn THICC! I need one 😂
「つ」って川やったんや……
この動画で一番驚いたのそこかもしれない
あと「部」→「へ」みたいに二個目で省略しすぎやろってのがいくつかあっておもしろい
「部」→「へ」は、部首の“おおざと”を崩したものです。
ありがとうございます
その思いと一緒に大切にさせていただきます
すごい die alte hiragana❣️
Zum lernen ist das neue etwas einfacher ✍🏼😅👍🏼
The closest I could find to every character’s kanji version
安 = あ
以 = い
宇 = う
衣 = え
於 = お
加 = か
幾 = き
久 = く
計 = け
己 = こ
左 = さ
之 = し
Work in progress
nice
寸 = す
世 = せ
曾 = そ
太 = た
知 = ち
川 = つ
天 = て
止 = と
奈 = な
仁 = に
奴 = ぬ
禰 = ね
乃 = の
波 = は
比 = ひ
不 = ふ
部 = へ
保 = ほ
末 = ま
美 = み
武 = む
女 = め
毛 = も
也 = や
由 = ゆ
与 = よ
良 = ら
利 = り
留 = る
禮 = れ
呂 = ろ
和 = わ
遠 = を
无 = ん
I like how in ね (ne), they really said
"yea im not gonna write all of that"
That pen is satisfying to watch.
So beautiful!
I was hoping you would also show the *forbidden kana* ゐ and ゑ
Their forgotten..
ゐ→い→i
ゑ→え→e
これが書道家の本気
I'm addicted to your videos so much
Beautiful to watch the creation of the written sound.
So basically, shinjitai is undersimplified chinese and kana is oversimplified chinese
好厲害👍🏻
Japan imported kanji/Chinese character, Chinese culture and administrative system until 9th century but collapse of the Tang dynasty caused the Japanese people to stop learning from China, then they began to grow their own culture, including Hiragana.
Look at handwritings by Zhu Geliang 諸葛孔明 or Si mayi 司馬懿 from the Three Kingdoms period and you’ll be surprised at how similar the cursive writings look like hiragana. Some are even the same. You can see ゐ ふ は in Zhu Geliang’s handwriting. And that’s hundreds of years before the Tang Dynasty. I fully respect Japanese culture but to say that hiragana is Japan’s own culture/creation is rather misleading. I find katakana to be more of a Japanese invention.
Imagine if they used all hiragana stages, before, middle, and after, for writing hiragana.
かな/カナを「仮名」と表するのに対して、漢字を「真名」(まな)と表するのは、こういう成り立ちがあるからなんですね。
3:25 え --> ら --> し
I’m so glad Japanese doesn’t use those ancient squiggles that were between Chinese characters and Hiragana. I can’t imagine trying to read those, let alone write. Damn.
The characters in between are not really “characters”. They’re a certain writing style developed in ancient China, called 草书, literally “careless/messy scripts”. It was somehow reserved to the higher class people, as lower class didn’t even read. Tho people nowadays no longer write that way (I doubt they ever write anymore), it’s still a living art form of Chinese calligraphy.
I think they are rather nice for a shorthand.
Beautiful writings🤩🤩🤩❤❤❤❤💕
Damn I'm way too early to understand these comments
Haha
11:58 The Matthew DeBlock's Dscript is meaning: "CAN"
参考になります！ありがとうございます！
有些漢字在快速書寫的時候仍然會按照長得比較像假名的那種來~
この調子で俺の冬休みの課題もやってくれ
I just wanna scream watching the Kanji's handwriting version😭😭😭
12:43
利→わ→り
元々期限は中国だったのに、平仮名は完全に独立した日本の言語になってるの歩んだ歴史の大きさとか文化の成長に言語の簡略化が必須レベルなんだなってわかる(複雑なものほど平仮名化すると簡略化されて画数減ってる)
The broken あ looked cool
草書体ちゃんとかけたらカッコイイなぁ。筆記体でサイン書くみたいにできれば。縦書きしかできないのネックかな
こんなリズム良く字なんて書けないよ😭
*すごい*
『ゑ』、『ゐ』とは？ｗ (すげー動画ですね）
『ぬ』が1番カッコいいw
Esse vídeo é lindo ❤
「め」(女)や「と」(止)については、その他のかなのように音読みからじゃなくて、訓読みから作られたみたいんですけど、それは誰かがなぜか知っていますか？
6:01 「あ行」から「た行」まで。
Gracias!!! Saludos desde Perú!!!
Beautiful O-O
hes insulting my handwriting in a language i don't even know.
@@たつっき both.
The old ones look similar to kanji, safe for me to say that thankfully history decided to simplify the japanese alphabet
Oh my God, I am Chinese. When I study Japanese, I use Chinese characters to mark hiragana. Same as your 70%.
@un fudanshi cualquiera Hiragana is a phonetic characters, Chinese also has a set of auxiliary phonetic characters, but using English alphabet, the shape and pronunciation of the hiragana is similar to some Chinese characters, which is helpful for memory. The shape of kanji is easy, and the pronunciation need more practice. The most difficult thing is Japanese grammar, which is quite different. Chinese grammar is even closer to English.
ゐ（爲） と ゑ（惠） もやってほしかったです。
たくみさんは平安時代の貴族説
（字が）うまい!
うんまあ、マジでうまいなぁ
Thank you!
That first あ gave me euphoria
Yes
How the heck does 部 become へ?! That seems like a stretch to me!
「部」は「へ」になりますか？すごい。信じがたいですね。
それは日本人の私達でも困惑しています。
That is confused even Japanese people
おそらく、それぞれの地方で漢字の略し方が違って平仮名を統一して作った時にどれとも似ていない形にしたんでしょうね
I think that "before Hiragana letter" has a slang, and then 部 become へ when we makes Hiragana of national letter and then 部 become へ when we makes Hiragana of national letter
Sorry my bad English
so basically, Hiragana is a product when somebody writes the Hanza/Kanji in a rush
Oh this is quite fascinating
なるほどー！ってやつと、なんで？？ってのがあるねww
That original symbol for ki really does look like a tree! 😂
このボールペンは「ジェットストリーム」ですか？ インクの出の良さに心当たりがあるので聞いてみました
Beautiful writing. Woould you compose english with your thoughts. I am from Taiwan. I am illiteracy what you are composing. Interprete for me. I want to learn your dialect which is native language. I have no idea how to speak japanese. But I must not to learn these words. Just to learn oral dialogue. That is it.
so basically Hiragana is the simplified version of the simplified version of the chinese adaptation
Yes
Интересно. Старинная русская азбука и церковнославянский алфавит тоже на иероглифы похожи немножко. Только в японском и китайском каждый иероглиф - это целое слово? Так?
в японском - да,но и из нескольких иероглифов может составляться одно слово
Церковнославянский алфавит напоминает иероглифы потому что он основан на греческом алфавите и старославянской глаголице. Эти два алфавита и так дадут довольно гремучую смесь при совмещении, но церковнославянский ещё содержал значительные дополнения (эстетические, в первую очередь) и от славянских писцов. Оттого он, со своими украшениями и дополнениями, иероглифы и напоминает. Если же посмотреть на берестяные грамоты или даже на ранние версии петровского гражданского шрифта, то никакой иероглифики вы не заметите, так как людям проще было писать без украшений, свойственных церковному алфавиту.
Хирагана и катакана, в общем-то, родились похожим образом. Взяли перегруженные китайские иероглифы и просто упростили их написание. Так и получились две японские слоговые азбуки.
@@ndrechtseiter Это очень интересно. Но сложно для людей со зрением как у меня.
やっと書道家ってこと思い出しましたか？
Oh so lazy handwriting has simplified the characters?? Cool
Ничего не понятно, но очень интересно
Kana is just an ultra simplified kanji.
Fayt me.