What is your fav character in the Japanese language and why? It could be the meaning, the design, the history, or something else!
I’ve always found the Japanese language so cool, especially with its three alphabets. So I’m asking you, with 50,000 letters in Japanese. Which is your favourite?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/17a0cts/what_is_your_favourite_character/
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The ones they stole from China. /s
This is a fun question!!
I’ve always found 馬 to be a funny character, because of the meaning. It’s a bit of a rude joke, but Horses, who have very long noses, being called Uma in Japanese, always made me relate it to Uma Thurman’s large nose as well. I don’t think I ever forgot how to read it thanks to that!!
You mean kanji? 死 (death) is a good candidate, I just find the whole stigma surrounding it to be rather silly and yet fascinating, while it is somewhat easy to understand.
Deko boko is pretty cool
凸凹
Its very simple, but I like 森 and 林. I appreciate characters that look like what they mean, and I like trees and forests. I always think “happy little trees” in a Bob Ross-esque voice when I write them out.
草 is another one. For some reason, it reminds me of a weed or flower just based on the appearance of it (and it doesn’t help that in my terrible handwriting, the part that would be the “stem” is somewhat longer than it should be), but that also helped me remember what it meant early on and it seems very cheerful somehow.
Recently, 辷
It’s one of those kanji you read once and never forget. I don’t even remember where I saw it.
I’ve always liked sakura 桜
It calls to my mind such an idyllic scene: a woman sitting beneath a tree as petals drift down on a breeze.
雨 it just looks really pretty to me
Doraemon
I love how symmetrical 薬 is and I remember this being one of the first kanjis I learned because of the big pharmacy signs everywhere lol
働
Human + (heavy + power) =
Human + move =
Work
[I have a wooden 水 on my wall](https://youtu.be/cJMwBwFj5nQ)
Aside from being to me a symbol of resilience and patient strength, It’s just really kind of beautiful, I think
# 水
互 is my favourite at the moment, means reciprocity/mutually. It’s fun to write and it looks like what it represents (at least to me!)
日本. Japan is the king of Asia.
和 for several reasons. first, it means harmony and thats a good meaning. second, my japanese name that was given to me from my grandmother is 大和, which is also an archaic name for Japan as well as the most famous ship in the IJN, and coincidentally, two of my great grandfathers were in the IJN.
む always looked cool to me and feels satisfying to hand write.