To Jump

chō, to-bu, ha-neru

This character depicts a foot and a crack. Both haneru and tobu mean “to jump” or “to hop.”

You can include other words that have similar meaning. For example, to vault is one of them.

A vaulting box is tobibako. Bako is a voiced sound of hako meaning a box. To do the vaulting boxes is “tobibako wo tobu.” Have you ever done it? Japanese kids do it at school. I borrowed this photo from Wikimedia.

1. Draw the left-side of the rectangle.
2. Draw the upper and right sides of the rectangle.
3. Draw the lower side of the rectangle.
4. Draw the vertical stroke.
5. Draw the short horizontal stroke.
6. Draw the short vertical stroke.
7. Draw the sweeping stroke heading toward the next stroke.
8. Begin to draw the right-hand side of the character. Draw the sweeping stroke from the center top.
9. Draw the small dot near the center.
10. Draw the sweeping dot below the previous stroke.
11. Draw the long curve with an upward turn.
12. Draw the sweeping dot from the upper right.
13. Draw the dot from the middle of the curve.