Accommodation or Anchoring

to-maru, to-meru, haku

Travelers stay at hotels for one day or a few days. What they do is “tomaru.” While tomaru doesn’t take an object, tomeru follows an object and the particle “wo”. Tomeru means “to accommodate somebody”. Shukuhaku or “shukuhaku shisetsu” means accommodation. Shuku means a hotel or an inn and shisetsu means a facility.

When you call a hotel to make a reservation, you will be asked how many nights you will stay. This question is “nanpaku no goyo yaku desuka?” Yoyaku means reservation. You don’t have to remember this whole sentence unless you run a hotel. The most important word is nanpaku (how many nights you stay). If you want to stay only night, ippaku is your answer. Nihaku is for two nights and sanpaku, for three nights.

This character means not only accommodation but also anchoring.

Anchoring or anchorage is teihaku. Tei means to “stop something.”

1. Draw the dot in the upper-left corner of the character.
2. Draw the dot below it.
3. Draw the upward stroke in the lower-left corner. This stroke is heading toward the next stroke.
4. Begin to draw the right-hand side of the character. Draw the sweeping dot on the top.
5. Draw the left side of the rectangle.
6. Draw the upper and right sides of the rectangle.
7. Draw the horizontal stroke in the rectangle.
8. Draw the lower side of the rectangle.