Lesson 22 of 28
Kanji Unit 22 — force, effort, and what gives out
about 9 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Recognise 力 as a character and as a part, and read 勉強.
- Read 病院 and 医者 — the hospital and the doctor.
Words this lesson teaches
- 力
- power, strength
- 勉
- exertion, diligence — 勉強, study
- 動
- move — 自動車, 運動
- 病
- illness — 病院, a hospital
- 医
- medicine, a doctor — 医者
- 死
- death, to die
- 肉
- meat, flesh
- 自
- oneself — 自分, 自転車, 自動車
- 有
- have, exist — 有名, famous
What it explains
自 turns things into themselves
自 in front of another character means it does it by itself. 自転車 is a self-turning vehicle, a bicycle, using 転 and 車 already learned. 自動車 is a self-moving vehicle, a car, using 動 from this unit. 自分 is one's own portion, meaning oneself. Three words, all built from parts now in hand, and none of them needing to be memorised as a shape.
有名 and 有る
有 means to have or to exist, and its most useful appearance is 有名 — have-name, meaning famous. 「有名な 店です」 is a sentence a learner will want early and often. The verb 有る is more often written ある in kana, which is the general rule for verbs like this: the character exists, and ordinary writing does not use it.
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.