how to write kanji

[wilzour]

心 looks wierd!!! and 美 is wrong the ay you wrote it

[maneatingbanana]

命、男、地、水、社、神、使　has the wrong order. Also why does is look like some of them you copied off the computer?

[novacrystalas]

It's true he doesn't write them with proper stroke order, but how many of us have perfect stroke order and kanji all the time? Foreigners could care less sometimes about stroke order as long as it can be read. Remembering the shapes, pronunciations, and meanings of 2000-4000 characters to be literate trumps perfect execution of stroke order, だろ？ Stroke order haters, but I do appreciate correct and properly written Kanji! Anyone agree with me?

[LunaXenoLovegood]

Your 水 was a bit off.. The horizontal stroke should be written first, then the second, and the third and fourth are separate, not connected. Sorry for nitpicking, but 水 is my favourite Kanji, LOL. Great job though! :DDDDD

[realeques]

I recognized "heaven" !!!.... i guess

[tovetroll84]

man, you even messed up the stroke order for "男"! Your characters still look better than mine though ;)

[vandimion]

○：田+力＝男

×：日+力＝男

あと、鬼の小さいとこはム

丁寧な字でいいと思う

[openingman]

Why are you drawing symbols

[MonsterHunter721]

@openingman lol

[shouwa52]

U can absolutely take your time. Traditionally it is done with brush and ink. The pressure and speed of your brush effects the thickness and shape of kanji. In this video I was attempting to write kanji with the music.

Correct speed and order of strokes are very important. There is also a way to treated like art and give it life but that's usually done by more experienced person. Sort of like obstructive drawing.

[BLACKSNIPER99]

when writing in kanji, do u have to be fast or u can take ur time when writing?

[IrishCoRn]

well... whats your hardest kanji? - i guess depression has some kind of 29 strokes xD

your earth kanji ist written in the wrong order..

[roby020604]

ave maria

[godsson2516]

そのかんじはかわいいですよ。

そのｿﾝｸﾞは何ですか。

[lexidart]

Great choice of music.

[Mesija1]

wow, this was wrong.....

[Rib640]

Stroke order for 命, 男, 美, 地, 様 and 使 is wrong. You also missed the hane on 水 (the hook to the left of the central vertical stroke), which makes your kanji for water look a bit like 木.

[Trigun1462]

your a terrible teacher you need to explain not just doodle kanji cause most americans don't know whats a no no and what these signs mean I give you a big fat F

[GintokisGirl95]

Does the same things apply to left handed people? I write my kanji differently.

[shouwa52]

kanji is designed for right handed people, usually in Japan left handed people were thought to write with right hand. placing the paper at diagonal seem to help some left handed people.

[GintokisGirl95]

Yes, that is how I write my Kanji and also my English. :P

Thank you for telling me this. ^.^

[stinkysmuggler]

@GintokisGirl95 I know this is pretty late, but I'm left handed. All you need to do is hold the pen perpendicular to the paper. The tilt that a left-handed person has makes writing kanji harder. By holding the pen like that, you are removing any right-handed bias.

[GintokisGirl95]

@stinkysmuggler Pretty cool, because I am left handed as well. :P Thank you so much!!

[stinkysmuggler]

@GintokisGirl95 No problem! I'm glad to help people who are left-handed. haha We are often left out. Pun iintended!

[GintokisGirl95]

@stinkysmuggler lol :P

[kikyouthekillermiko]

Katakana is completely different from Kanji right? so if I wanted to study Japanese which would of the two would be best to learn?

[thor6000]

@kikyouthekillermiko i think kanji

[mech1478965423]

if your foreign then kanji

[shouwa52]

hiragana and katakana should be studied together since similarities is significant. consider hiragana and katakana as alphabet and kanji as words. in Japan hiragana and katakana is studied before kanji.

[RLJ96]

i think you wrote otoko wrong you have first write the 田　then you hav to write カ under it

[ComputerExpertise95]

Excellent..I have a Japanese friend in school tht I rlly do wanna impress;D

but I would like to request tht u plz write every word n it's meaning..overall great video n keep it up:D

[Shadowdemon2008]

what does this mean?

[CrunsherExtreme]

^^ i like to see you writing kanji xD ありがとう。

[shouwa52]

気に入って頂けて嬉しいです。n_n

[CrunsherExtreme]

it does ^^ ! Im learning Kanji ;) what about u? did u worked in nippon?

[Noobanimate]

how to know which 'lines' do i nid to write first?

[joshua5576]

that says "we are happy to like double glazing"

[governmentReBeL]

actually every in the comment you wrote was HIRAGANA thats cool though how do you do that

[lolyao]

his actually writing chinese

[chongpo]

yeah but can be in japanese too :D

[Yu5aku]

@lolyao not really.

[lolyao]

kk...there are whole lot of chinese characters exist in japanese language but most of em hav a diffent meanings

[THEBongPipe]

@lolyao

The chinese characters imported are called kanji, what's illustrated in this video. However, they mean the same; they are generally written alongside the hiragana that mean the same as the kanji so that people who don't know kanji can still get the stray kanji thrown in.

[lolyao]

lol well i cant still read them

[kaioohh]

I am sorry but you don't write them correctly...

[shouwa52]

Thanks!

[jacuch46]

ehm... you wrote utsukushii incorrectly and olso your kokoro looks weird :P

[dontexplode2]

OMG, you write it like its nothing, its pretty hard for me!

[shouwa52]

It is hard for me too.

[Moshikashitenai]

Horrible music, awesome writing, good job!

[KillerLizard12]

lol hitman music

[OblivionKnight457]

i wanna know how to do on computer

[ilChupaChupsDiMaya]

add the oriental languages on your pc(i don't know for mac) change the language in the language bar and use the japanese input mode ...sorry my english is bad m(_ _-)m

[OblivionKnight457]

ok thanks

[VNOTs413]

for mac u just clik on the international button in system preferences and you can change it there

[klepsydro87]

good but you did some kanji with a different order!! :P :P

[NingyoAijin]

cool elfen lied fan!!! *SCREAMS* awesome!!! thats my favourite manga/anime (the manga is better and much longer) XDXDXD i also like mermaid melody, dbz, azumanga daioh, paniponi dash and magic knights rayearth (!!!!!)

[lussygirl]

how can I write japanese with my computer ???

[shouwa52]

control pannel-->language option-->intall language. hope it works!

[lussygirl]

thank you ^^

[DenshiPengvin]

Good, but stroke order is somehow important... it makes kanji look more balanced.

[shouwa52]

sure!

[cagednm69]

how do i write DIO in kanji....

i heard the hayabusa is a kanji logo ...so im lookin for a kanji logo for my Honda dio...but i cant find it anywhere...can u help me? tnx

[shouwa52]

I lived in Japan and went to public shool there. taking a class at your school is good idea, or some people just learns on thier own. Japanese movies with subtitle is another fun way to learn. rosseta stone is a good program. there are some web sites that offers on line tudoring as well. good luck!

[tanorum]

Great video..and there was also an italian song :D "nel blu dipinto di blu, felice di stare lassù!" XD

congrates for your writing ^^

[shouwa52]

thanks! italian is a beautiful language! n_n

[Emblemz]

How do i write "Kiefer" in Kanji? :D

[shouwa52]

you don't. names are not translated into kanji. however, you can write names is Japanese alphabet! "Kiefer" is "キーファー" n_n

[YTVideosReborn]

Names have been translated into kanji before. It's very possible.

[shouwa52]

sure what you wana knwo? n_n

[shouwa52]

i'm glad i had a chance to learn it. thanks for the comment!

[Sonniku123]

Work on your 糸　radical, the symbols 心、鬼、and your stroke order. It may seem to be tempting to write it the fastest way but looking it up in a dictionary or teaching someone it becomes somewhat important. Especially if you're using a brush pen. Not to be critical at all, it's just that your styling had me thinking for a while.

[shouwa52]

yeah the 糸 is ugly. i was trying write with the music. it was a lot of fun. i think 心、鬼 looks prety good but they can get better. i can't find any mistake on the stroke order so maybe you can tell me which one. thanks for the comment!

[morikahjo]

wa!! that was really good!  Everything about the video was very pretty, the music and the writing!

[shouwa52]

thanks very much! n_n

[tstokemb]

cool or should i say　すごい　i want to learn japanese so bad that i would go nuts for it!!!

plz could you be my sensei?

[shouwa52]

sure! for any kick ass skater like you i'll be happy to. thanks for the comment!

[kittykattykoo]

Loved the Ave Maria backsound!! :D

[ericsurf6]

My favorite song!

[kittykattykoo]

one of mine too!

[shouwa52]

she takes me to an another world.

[kittykattykoo]

whoa, that's pretty poetic of you ;)

[shouwa52]

good! that's what i was hoping for. n_n

[rintalou]

お。おぉ？選んだ漢字に、脈絡ってあるの？

[shouwa52]

音楽に合わせて頭に浮かんだ漢字を書いていた気がする。あと対象­的な意味をもつ漢字。結構楽しかったですよ！

[magic9man2]

Nice handwriting, how many kanji do you think you still remember how to write by hand?

[shouwa52]

thank you! on this day i did about 100 but these are mostly the very basic kanji that 10 years old in Japan would know, but i can still read almost all kanji. ok maybe not all but most of it. n_n

[ericsurf6]

OK, I got the message. I'm going to start practicing writing my Kanji again.

Nice video Jay!

[shouwa52]

good! i also need to practice more. thanks for the comment.

[ericsurf6]

Jay, I'm looking for someone bilingual to do a simple English lesson for my University Students in Japan. Are you interested?

[shouwa52]

well, i only teach hot college grils. would that work? just kidding. sure i would love to!

[chimera15]

Um, ok..what's the first one?

[shouwa52]

心/こころ heart.

[ChelonianDudeMaster]

cool

[shouwa52]

thanks!