Ben Humphreys

Computational linguistics researcher at Kyoto University, focussing on machine translation. Also learning Japanese, Korean, French and other badassery.
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July 18, 2011 at 7:13am
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Remembering 雨 Related Kanji

I sometimes find it easier to make up stories about Kanji to remember how to write them, especially if they look really similar. Here’s how I remember weather-related Kanji that use 雨. Most of them are easy, but I often get the right-hand parts of dew and mist confused.

  • 雨 rain - Basic.
  • 雲 cloud - (Can’t think of one).
  • 雪 snow - Katakana ヨ at the bottom which is like ユ in ゆき.
  • 露 dew - Has 足 at the bottom, you get dew on your feet.
  • 霧 mist - mist is hard to predict, so contains 予. Also because mist is really fine, it has no power… so it has 力 at the bottom right.
  • 霰 hail - Not sure about this one, bottom looks like 昔, hail is an old word?

Does anyone else use systems like this for remembering Kanji?

Notes

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