Lesson 18 of 28
Kanji Unit 18 — the field, and the ground around it
about 9 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Tell 田, 土 and 广 apart inside characters that use them.
- Read the words for a place, a town and a district.
Words this lesson teaches
- 田
- a rice field
- 町
- a town, a neighbourhood
- 画
- a picture; a brush stroke — 映画, 計画
- 界
- a boundary — almost only in 世界, the world
- 地
- ground, earth, a district — 地図, 地下
- 場
- a place, a spot — 場所, 会場
- 野
- an open field, the wild — 野さい, vegetables
- 広
- wide, spacious
- 度
- a degree; a time, an occasion — 一度, 今度
What it explains
場所, 地図, 世界
場所 is place-place, both characters meaning roughly that, which is common and not redundant — the pair is the word. 地図 is earth-drawing, a map; 図 arrives in unit 26. 世界 is generation-boundary, the world; 世 arrives in unit 24. Meeting a word with one character still unknown is the normal state of reading Japanese for the next few years, and the way through it is to read the half you have.
度 counts occasions
度 is a degree — 三十度 is thirty degrees — and also a count of times: 一度, once, and 今度, next time, both of which the N4 course uses constantly. 「もう一度」 is the single most useful thing a learner can say, and until now they have been saying it without being able to read 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.