How to write modern Japanese Kanji and Japanese Kanji from 100 Years Ago
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@Triantafyllos_Strantzalis2 жыл бұрын
The Old Kanji are more beautiful and stylish, while the New ones are more practical and faster to write.
@li_tsz_fung2 жыл бұрын
Yes, but when we all just type, it's just as fast
@Triantafyllos_Strantzalis2 жыл бұрын
@@li_tsz_fung Typing is something else from writing.
@fu77252 жыл бұрын
A few strokes would not make a whole lot of difference in writing speed, and the simplification by discarding parts of the character breaks the association of similar types of character or loses the part that makes up the pronunciation, making them less efficient.
@Triantafyllos_Strantzalis2 жыл бұрын
@@fu7725 I myself believe that traditional characters are far more better than simplified, because of the same reason. Even though I am a Greek, I'm fascinated with China, Japan and Korea and their culture.
@DASmallWorlds2 жыл бұрын
@@Triantafyllos_Strantzalis I wholeheartedly agree haha, I'm about done with an add-on IME that allows you to type in 正字體 and traditional kana orthography for this exact reason.
@maximilianisaaclee29362 жыл бұрын
Wow, the old kanji is exactly the same as the traditional Chinese writing which is my primary way of writing Chinese, albeit with a bit of different font style and stroke order. Some modern kanji are exactly the same as simplified Chinese but some are Japanese very own, not too simplified, I actually kind of like those in the middle ones.
@khalilahd.2 жыл бұрын
That’s so cool. I’d love to learn Chinese when I’m done with Japanese
@KC-ro9ro2 жыл бұрын
kanji are chinese characters. there is some slight localization, but they are not japanese. They're just a selection of chinese characters, some of them being (or were) widely used in china, and some of them being less used. Actually, "Kanji" litterally means chinese character, like saying "kanji" out loud is litterally saying "chinese character" in japanese 漢 Kan = China/Chinese (or han dynasty from China) 字 Ji = Character They took it as is from china, aside from a few they slightly altered. Another fun fact : its also the reason why they use hiragana, because Chinese characters were not meant for the japanese language, which is completely different to chinese (not even the same family) and it was (and still is) so complicated and messy they decided to connect the dots with an alternative writing to simplify their writing system and make it easier to use, but it still is funamentally flawed (although it works surprisingly well, but only in the end). I wouldnt go into details because it would take me too long, but thats also why learning kanji is so hard, its like a maze you need to know most of the roads and exits to actually be able to understand it, while in chinese it is way, way more natural.
@makotohanazawa65602 жыл бұрын
@@khalilahd. its a long way down, either japanese or chinese
@maximilianisaaclee29362 жыл бұрын
@@khalilahd. I wish I would pick up Japanese again someday, I took Japanese in college but the class discontinued and so I couldn't advance. I love the three Japanese writing systems Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji, since Chinese is my mother tongue, I love the ingenuity of how the Japanese adapt their language to the Chinese language which is very different. Kanji in Chinese is called 漢字 ㄏㄢˋㄗˋ Hanzi, and I use Zhuyin.
@MinecastSawtooth2 жыл бұрын
That's because they are. 'Old Kanji' (Kyujitai) are based upon the forms found in the Kangxi dictionary, whereas 'New Kanji' (Shinjitai) are simplified versions of those characters
@Fight_SPR2 жыл бұрын
骨が豊かで「からだ」っていうのホント好き
@user-yz2pz7xg8n2 жыл бұрын
めちゃくちゃ分かる!
@haetaeyt_translator2 жыл бұрын
體(体:からだ)
@DASmallWorlds2 жыл бұрын
A good mnemonic for sure, but the character is formed from a phonetic-semantic coupling; namely 骨 being the meaning and 豊 the sound. Also of note is that , 豊 is used to mean lush/abundant today, but is originally a character used to describe a ceremonial vessel or as a variant for 禮 (礼). The proper character that describes lush/abundant is of course 豐.
@user-db2sy4nk7f2 жыл бұрын
@@DASmallWorlds Yes, I remembered that Japanese-豊 is = Chinese-豐。 In Chinese, 豊 is read as "lǐ", also 禮(礼)lǐ:gift, 體(体)tǐ:body. And in Chinese, 豐 is read as "fēng", and 豔(艳艷) yàn, 鮮豔:鮮やかな
@Ldbcjaikoru2 жыл бұрын
體
@chYanagi2 жыл бұрын
Old kanji characters are still used in some manga and anime titles. For example, '聲の形' (English title: 'A Silent Voice'). The original title means Shape of Voice in Japanese. The author chose this title because of the three parts of "聲". The word "声" means sound, "殳" means the way one uses one's hands, and "耳" means ears.
@ch.64122 жыл бұрын
Can you hear the silence
@mirska92 жыл бұрын
ah yes, koe no katachi
@fandroid64912 жыл бұрын
This kanji -> 聲 sure is *noisy*
@jeanbart13532 жыл бұрын
@@ch.6412 can you fix the broken
@ch.64122 жыл бұрын
@@jeanbart1353 No no can you hear the silence and then can you see the dark, can you fix the broken and last is CAN YOU FELL MY HEART!!!!
@davespriter2 жыл бұрын
ive been going around thinking current kanji are hard for me to learn, but then i see the old ones and think about how much more challenging it could really be. either way the kanji look very beautiful, especially when you write them! thank you for this fascinating video
@anshumansharma98172 жыл бұрын
Learn radicals brother instead of kanji
@3sides8532 жыл бұрын
Traditional characters are not tremendously more difficult than the modern versions to remember once you know the radicals, it's just slightly more tedious to write.
Those kanji from 100 years ago were still used in Traditional Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
@khalilahd.2 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s incredible. I didn’t know this
@lileong55482 жыл бұрын
so thats why it looked suspiciously similar lol took me some time to realize that i was writing old kanji for 13 years
@natchanon.t2 жыл бұрын
I agree, modern Kanji look like simplify Chinese
@missus_chan2 жыл бұрын
They are also used in mainland China now in somewhere
@User-fv5llvy8s2 жыл бұрын
Korea에도 100년전에 사용했습니다
@cuylerotsuka2 жыл бұрын
My great-grandfather's eldest son, who died as a baby, was named Takara (寶), and, as a foreigner (esp. as one who has been mostly exposed to shinjitai) it was kind of a pain to figure out what the kanji said/meant on a Japanese genealogical record I came across, but then when I figured it out, I found it to be such a beautiful name.
@KiKfilms Жыл бұрын
Takara means treasure i I remember well?
@khalilahd.2 жыл бұрын
It’s really interesting to see the evolution of Japanese writing systems. I haven’t started learning kanji yet but I should be soon ☺️
@RonLarhz2 жыл бұрын
It's a mixture of simplified and traditional Chinese with occasional twist of their own.
@YanxinHe91862 жыл бұрын
加油(cheer up)
@valinsi2 жыл бұрын
im at the very end of learning the last of hiragana and probably going to be able to start katakana soon. and so far have only learned 2 kanji (cat and green) 😅 good luck on your studies!!
@worldcomicsreview3542 жыл бұрын
@@valinsi The time-related ones are easy and useful, numbers too.
@danishzuhairi3382 жыл бұрын
hey are you from Stan Twitter 🤩
@philyip44322 жыл бұрын
I am so glad that i learned the traditional Chinese characters as i was growing up. I also further studied the ancient scripts on my own. Such as scripts that were used during the Chin and the Han dynasties . I found it extremely interesting and fulfilling, because i can connect with my own culture , heritage and traditions.
The old kanji is beautiful and artistic calligraphy. The point of new one is the communication. To share the information. It's lighter and objective.
@hannahkhin49382 жыл бұрын
I have never learned Japanese but still watch this video . Because, it is soothing and calming .
@Elysia132 жыл бұрын
Specially, South Korea(Using Han Geul, only pronounce, Meaning is from Kanji), Taiwan, Hong kong and Macao are still using old style kanji😄😄 I have seen much time when I learned those Kanjies.
So, just the Japanese version of the traditional and simplified Chinese. Got it.
@waikan28032 жыл бұрын
You have such a lovely hand-writing 🙌🙌🙌
@sweetpastelpeach75872 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's just me, but looking at some of the old Kanji, because it uses more of the basic characters, I can actually understand it without knowing how to pronounce it a lot easier than I can with more modern Kanji.
@aeophylus8 күн бұрын
It's interesting Japanese stroke order is different to Chinese Stroke order in that the vertical stroke is drawn first before the horizontal strokes when writing the 隹 radical.
@batbayrmaralhuu99482 жыл бұрын
Your kanji looks so beautiful. Wow !
@alecto392 жыл бұрын
Japanese kanji 100 years ago is actually the same we write in Taiwan currently.
@leungandrew10262 жыл бұрын
Also in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
@user-yc1zr7ty3i2 жыл бұрын
嘘だ〜
@VV_PaVria2 жыл бұрын
@@leungandrew1026 There's a good reason why. 100 years ago, everybody used the same traditional Chinese script. But Japan did its own simplification for some characters in the 1940s, while the PRC did its own in the 1950s. Because at that last time, Taiwan was not under PRC and Hong Kong was still a British colony, neither standard was adopted in those places. Malaysia and Singapore used simplified characters that were brought there by immigrants from the PRC.
@user-pl3tj1jc2i2 жыл бұрын
@@user-yc1zr7ty3i 本当です。
@user-tc4eo9pm4o2 жыл бұрын
What a good old memory while I was in elementary school practicing traditional Chinese characters in Taiwan!
@SamWong12312 жыл бұрын
ちなみに香港と台湾まだその旧字体使ってますよ! 繁体字/正体字と言います
@muncherofpizza2 жыл бұрын
The old style for “old” looks like so old a person that you can see their ribs. I really like watching you write these.
Writing notes in traditional Chinese must take forever lol
@Tom-kf7fz2 жыл бұрын
The old kanji is the real kanji, the “modern kanji” are just simplified version
@erosnunez62382 жыл бұрын
In Chinese there are different types of strokes as well as the accents of different provinces, in traditional they use it a lot in provinces such as Taiwan and Hong Kong, while the simplified it is in the other regions such as Macao and also Hong Kong
@_wilhelm89732 жыл бұрын
As a mainland Chinese resident, I think Simplified Chinese is a totally failure.
@_wilhelm89732 жыл бұрын
Its original intention was to help illiterate people learn writing quickly, after the founding of the PRC. However, in the process of simplification, because a large number of kanji with different meanings were merged and the radicals of many kanji were replaced, even also experienced secondary simplification (During this period, some people's surnames were changed and even new ones were created), The results are actually somewhat confusing.
@_wilhelm89732 жыл бұрын
Today, the kanji used by mainland Chinese are simplified Chinese from the provisions of the 《通用规范汉字表 (通用規範漢字表, the Common Standard Chinese Characters Table)》, but usually, traditional Chinese is still used for calligraphy and couplets.
@leongkaho2 жыл бұрын
In Macao, like Taiwan and Hong Kong, we mainly use the traditional one, not the simplified one .
@DASmallWorlds2 жыл бұрын
@@_wilhelm8973 I mean that is true but nothing stops you from using traditional character forms normally either haha, maybe a few odd looks here and there
@zxcvbn-i3e6 ай бұрын
Interestingly, some of the new Kanji fonts use the exact same glyphs as the simplified characters in mainland China.
@FooFighterHP72 жыл бұрын
A smile in place of two crosses is very cute.
@unsweetenedcheerios53062 жыл бұрын
His handwriting is soo beautiful
@LuparCh2 жыл бұрын
No conocía la evolución reciente de la escritura japonesa, gracias.
@rin_etoware_29892 жыл бұрын
history-though Japanese kanji and Chinese hànzì has always had little differences here and there, they were pretty similar until the end of WW2. after that, Japan would decide to moderately simplify its characters, (the People's Republic of) China would decide to _significantly_ revise its characters, and now we have stuff like 氣 - 気 - 气 and 團 - 団 - 团.
@0.17r.m92 жыл бұрын
樂 - 楽 - 乐とか
@mylign Жыл бұрын
@@0.17r.m9 繪畵 (Korea) vs 絵画 (Japan). Interestingly, Korea does not use 絵 at all but uses 画 as an simplified 畵.
@nemvic0930 Жыл бұрын
As a girl who studies Chinese (and Japanese too), I will say that kanji from 100 years ago = traditional Chinese characters, and modern kanji = simplified Chinese characters
@freddysband36322 жыл бұрын
Essientially, it is just traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese, though some aren't changed.
@HunterShows2 жыл бұрын
Hey, it's like Mao stopped by and chopped up your language.
@user-ll4yj2wt3j Жыл бұрын
It's happy to see traditional charachters for being Korean
@hueyhooiteoh8052 жыл бұрын
As chinese, i can 100%understand these char
@Sakuya_Izayoi992 жыл бұрын
I'm Taiwanese, this is my first time know the old kanji is same as the traditional Chinese writing XD
Okay their writing looking amazing but from a practical standpoint who's idea was it to make their written language comprised of dozens of miniature art pieces with man intricate tiny lines
@fu77252 жыл бұрын
Makes more sense than mixing a bunch of alphabets with no practical meaning to me.
@TheScarletSlayer2 жыл бұрын
@@fu7725 We're American, we aren't smart.
@seg1622 жыл бұрын
@@fu7725 It's not as if every kanji is an ideogram or pictogram.
@VV_PaVria2 жыл бұрын
That's how most alphabets start life, actually. The tiny pictures got simplified overtime when they started being used to represent only sounds instead of whole words and ideas.
@TheScarletSlayer2 жыл бұрын
@@VV_PaVria simpler? What did the originals look like!? * The symbol with a million pieces painted across a mountains side* Amazing! What does it mean? " It says......A...."
@junjun39952 жыл бұрын
If you want to to learn the old Japanese kanji words go to Taiwan Hong Kong or Macau you just have to learn Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese
@Someone-Here2 жыл бұрын
Thought this video was about simplified and traditional Chinese until I read the title
@worldcomicsreview3542 жыл бұрын
Ones with more than one letter would also have been written right-to-left. Left-to-right writing for horizontal Japanese was only adopted in 1945.
@karakun12 жыл бұрын
Old is basically 18. You can use that as some kind of pun or riddle.
So what we see today is simplified version of Kanji?
@asiyaheibhlin2 жыл бұрын
Reading this as someone who is fluent in Chinese (except for a couple chatacters): Simplified verses Traditional Chinese Japanese stroke order makes me cringe a "bit", to be honest. I have to remind myself that the stroke order isn't wrong, it's just different. 😂😂😂
@Doktor_Morlord2 жыл бұрын
Question to a japanese Person: Are you need sometimes a dictionary to read some unkown kanjis?
@@Yuubarium 1. 기사 제목에서 정치인의 성(姓), 국가명, 국제단체 등의 약자(略字)를 적을 때 2. 일부 보수적인 언론사 기사는 아직 한자를 많이 섞어 쓸 때가 있습니다. 3. 인명(人名)의 경우: 관공서 서류 발급 신청시 한글 이름 옆에 한자 이름을 같이 기재하여 제출하는 경우 한국 신분증 종류 중 주민등록증의 성명란은 한글 성명(한자 성명) 이런 형식입니다. 물론, 순수 한글 이름만 가진 사람들도 있으므로 그런 경우엔 한글 성명(漢字 姓+한글 이름) 이렇게 표기합니다. 그 외 일상에서는 한자를 굳이 손으로 적거나 타자를 칠 일이 거의 없습니다. 80년대~90년대 중반까지의 한국 언론사 기사는 한글과 한자를 섞은, 국한문혼용체(國漢文混用體)가 일반적이었습니다. 마치 일본의 は,を,が,に (한국의 -은/는, -을/를, -이/가, -에/에게/-으로/-로. '조사(助詞)'라고 합니다)' 를 제외한 모든 단어를 漢字로 쓰는 것과 거의 같았습니다.
@@Yuubarium There were some people who still use Hanja(Chinese character in Korean) but Chinese character is less used than Japan. But, There is few problems to read text in Hangul-Hanja mixed script(國漢文混用體 in korean,which corresponds to japanese 和漢混淆文) for well-educated Koreans.
The Kanji 100 years ago was the equvalent to Traditional Chinese, so it’s basically Chinese but Japanified
@realstage1925 Жыл бұрын
Why were modern Chinese characters re-imported from Japan to China? After the Edo period in Japan, during the Meiji Restoration, Japan was the most modernised country in Asia, and many Chinese and Koreans came to Japan to study and work. And some of the Chinese who later returned home became members of the ruling class, such as politicians and educators, who took the Japanese-made Chinese characters they had learnt in Japan and brought them directly back to China and used them. This then spread throughout the country.
@jakubw.27792 жыл бұрын
So... As i am not so familiar with history of Japan, especially japanese language i'm actually quite curious why those changes were made, for an outsider it looks like quite significant changes in only 100 years. Or it isn't that significant? For example my language haven't changed much past 100 years and even then changes were more to sentence construction and wording than to the letters/characters.
@explorer32462 жыл бұрын
After WWII the Americans wanted to modify Japan linguistically. So Japan simplified and cut down some usage of kanji characters.
@jakubw.27792 жыл бұрын
@@explorer3246 thanks for explaining
@TaiwanVirtual Жыл бұрын
We taiwaneses are still using traditional Chinese characters (old kanji ). 我們台灣人仍然使用著繁體中文(漢字)
@godzilla9282 жыл бұрын
omg why is it so relaxing to watch? im from other part of the world where our language isnt easy for others also but why this satisfy me more than my native polish language? xd
@mistahwhite11332 жыл бұрын
This is very cool
@lesliecheung20032 жыл бұрын
Mainland China and Malaysia Singapore use simply Hanzi, and Hong Kong Macau Taiwan use traditional
@Beebaboobee17 күн бұрын
1:30 English: Old Japanese: 18 😭
@catthestupid26862 жыл бұрын
truly impressive writing ! 漢
@jgda32 жыл бұрын
罐(カン)の音読みの由来は旁の方であって、扁の方の缶は"フ"と読むんですよね。
@cksong61312 жыл бұрын
寶 is the most beautiful one.
@dragon-tky2 жыл бұрын
きれいな字を書きますね。
@yourlifesucks69202 жыл бұрын
Was it really only 100 years ago that Japanese was written like this?
@iamsorryforbeingrudebefore16262 жыл бұрын
Glad to know that japanese adopted Chinese calligraphy.
@hermanlauw72492 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@Payidar889 Жыл бұрын
It's getting easier
@UatuEd2 жыл бұрын
I think 學 stroke order is wrong. (Also note that the Japanese government changed the stroke orders some... maybe 70 years ago, although almost nobody mentions this.)
@letzterherbst2 жыл бұрын
Taiwan is still using the old Kanji
@krysryjuly2 жыл бұрын
What kind of pen do you use? I really love your videos! 🙂
@VV_PaVria2 жыл бұрын
Zebra Sarasa Clip, 1.0 mm. It's given at the very beginning of this video.
@songthanh8962 жыл бұрын
ありがとうございます。
@furkankecelioglu2 жыл бұрын
They are not writing, they are drawing.
@thedragon122 жыл бұрын
I like how the modern kanji for old looks like a 1 and two 0 one over the other making it 100...which fits for the world old.