SIMPLIFY NIHONGO STUDIO

TANOSHII NIHONGO Course

- 120 characters (divided into 12 levels)

- Try to study one level in 30 minutes or less

- Use the kanji components to remember the Kanji meaning. Write
the Kanji 5 times on your notebook, or on your palm (with your finger).
Part 3: Kanji

-After this section, I will be able to:

Communicative
Criteria
1) Understand Kanji

2) Write Kanji

Mou sukoshi!
(More practice!)

Yokatta!
(Good!)

Subarashii!
(Excellent!)

Level 3 Kanji: New components

Start time:

*Before starting, lets learn the new Kanji components that we will use in this
level:

1) drop
(1 stroke)
2) walking
stick
(1 stroke)
3) magic
wand
(2 strokes)

Kanji #21/120, Level 3 (1/10 characters)

In Japan, you refer

to
?
by
pointing to the
drop between your
eyes.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

yourself

*as a component, will also mean [nose]

Kanji #22/120, Level 3 (2/10 characters)

A drop of the sun

is color
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

white

Kanji #23/120, Level 3 (3/10 characters)

In Japan, your 99th birthday is called
your "White" birthday. Therefore,
one + white (99) =
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

hundred

Kanji #24/120, Level 3 (4/10 characters)

A walking
stick
is
?
a
crocodiles
mouth.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

in

Kanji #25/120, Level 3 (5/10 characters)

Add 2 drops of
zeroes to ten,
and you get one
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

thousand

Kanji #26/120, Level 3 (6/10 characters)

One thousand
Cebuano mouths
speak Bisaya, our
mother
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

tongue

Kanji #27/120, Level 3 (7/10 characters)

Add a drop to
nine, and we can
?
it off to
ten.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

round

Kanji #28/120, Level 3 (8/10 characters)

Drops of tens are
used in the decimal
?
system.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

measurement

*as a component, will also mean [attach]

Kanji #29/120, Level 3 (9/10 characters)

The body part
which attaches
our upper arm to
our forearm is the
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

elbow

*[] as a component also means [body part]

Kanji #30/120, Level 3 (10/10 characters)

Choose ten fields of
study, then measure
how good you are at
each to find your
? .

End time:

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

specialty

Kanji Self-Test, Level 3 (10 characters)

#

Kanji

Meaning

Reading

Kanji

four

10

11

12

13

14

15

Meaning

Reading

Reflection: Did I use the Kanji components to remember the story related to
the Kanji meaning?

Kanji #31/120, Level 4 (01/10 characters)

If you have ten
specialties, you
earn the title of
? (with a
dot).

Start time:

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

Dr.

Kanji #32/120, Level 4 (02/10 characters)

If your mouth is
like a magic
wand, then you
can do
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

fortune-telling

Kanji #33/120, Level 4 (03/10 characters)

The magic wand is
standing
?
the
floor.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

above

Kanji #34/120, Level 4 (04/10 characters)

The magic wand is
hanging
?
the
ceiling.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

below

Kanji #35/120, Level 4 (05/10 characters)

Ten sunflowers
look at the moon,
waiting for the
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

morning

Kanji #36/120, Level 4 (06/10 characters)

Imagine a unique
animal, with animal
legs under its
mouth; it is the
?
one on Earth.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

only

Kanji #37/120, Level 4 (07/10 characters)

Imagine a unique
? , with an
eye and animal
legs.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

shellfish

Kanji #38/120, Level 4 (08/10 characters)

An
?
does not have
freedom to talk; look at
his mouth, clamped shut
by a shellfish.

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

employee

Kanji #39/120, Level 4 (09/10 characters)

Eye + human legs
=
? .

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

see

Kanji #40/120, Level 4 (10/10 characters)

In the
? ,
there were Adam
and Eve, the first
two pairs of
human legs.

End time:

Kanji meaning

Kanji

Kanji reading

beginning

Kanji Self-Test, Level 4 (10 characters)

#

Kanji

Meaning

Reading

Kanji

eye

10

11

12

13

14

15

Meaning

Reading

Reflection: Did I use my imagination in remembering the Kanji story?

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