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Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures – Name

名
Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures - Name - namae
Meaning
Name
Kunyoumi
な - na
Onyoumi
メイ - mei、 ミョウ - myou

You can see that there is a kuchi (mouth) 口 radical as part of a kanji, so to remember this kanji 名 (name) remember it as a mouth yelling out a name. To further remember the left side radical 夕 , it looks the katakana letter of ダ(Da) hence remember it as someone’s mouth yelling the name “Dave”!

 

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Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures Enter

入
Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures Enter
Meaning
Enter, Insert
Kunyoumi
い.る (iru)、 はい.る (hairu)
Onyoumi
ニュウ (nyu)、 ジュ (ju)

The kanji 入 means enter. It looks like a flap door where your cat or your dog can enter. When you want to remember the kanji 入, remember it as your cat trying to enter the flap door!

Also notice that the kanji is slightly different from the kanji human. The kanji human 人has shorter right stroke while the kanji 入 enter has shorter left stroke.

 

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Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures Number Four

四
Learning Japanese Kanji With Pictures Number Four
Meaning
Four
Kunyoumi
よ、 よ.つ、 よっ.つ、 よん
Onyoumi
シ

To draw a box you need 4 lines add 2 erasers in the middle and you have the kanji 四 (yon)! In the first version of oracle shell and bone, the character was written just like 一,二,三, where they’re literal representation of the number of the lines. However this later evolved to the combination of 口 (mouth) and 八 (divide) radicals.