習 -> bird practicing in daylight; 音 -> bell upside downpic.twitter.com/b5uRsJqY9c
A kanji’s meaning can often be determined by its individual parts. For example, boulder (岩) is mountain-stone, sound (音) is stand-day, and learn (習) is feather-white wait half of these don’t make any sense
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Offensive to bats and moths
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音 is perfectly sensible. it's stand-sun. so, in other words, WALKING ON THE SUN. and you know what that is? a freakin' great sound. thanks smash mouth
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and for all of you reading this, ON is the onyomi (walking ON the sun), and OTO is the kunyomi, which is easy because OTO is also the latin prefix for "ear". congratulations you now know one kanji
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In the ancient Chinese dictionary「『說文解字』習，數飛也。从羽从白。」which means the kanji 習's original meaning is often fly.「『說文解字注』鷹乃學習。引伸之義為習孰。」This kanji is used for hawks learning flying. Then it becomes the meaning of making something skilled.
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ah kanji where you need to learn 8000 years of obscure chinese mythology and folklore to make sense of things. and the characters convey meaning what a 矛盾
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美 beautiful is a mix of sheep 羊 and big 大, and nothing beats delicious lamb chops!
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I know a good mnemonic when I see one
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A lot of them really only make sense when you consider them in their historical context. For example, the kanji for tongue, 舌, originally represented a forked tongue coming out of a mouth, because ... Holy hell, that guy on the subway was right.pic.twitter.com/GvG1iVcrq5
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