hazu-mu, hi-ku, haji-ku, tama, dan Today’s character is a sōsho style. Visit yesterday’s blog post to find its kaisho style. I didn’t mention the verb hajiku 弾く. Hajiku means to strike something using the power you get directly or with your innate power. The equivalent verbs are flip, fillip or repel. Hajikeru is its variation. [...]

hisa-shii, kyū, ku We have already uploaded a sōsho style of this character >>> here. There is a slight difference between two sōsho styles. The image below shows a kaisho style.

ai, ai-suru, ito-shii, ito-oshii, ito-oshimu I looked up the dictionary to find the origin of this character this time. It consists of three parts. The upper part depicts the head to turn. The middle part is the heart that you have when you see something turning your head. The part, therefore, expresses that you love [...]

shū Let us show you how the character 囚 looks when it is written in a sōsho style. The character below is written in a kaisho style.

sa-ku How do flowers bloom? Combined with other verbs, saki, a form of the verb saku, expresses some ways of blooming. sakimidareru and sakikoboreru … to bloom in riotous profusion (Koboreru means to overflow.) sakisorou … to bloom together (Sorou means to become complete.) sakiniou … to be in beautiful, fragrant bloom (Niou means to [...]

ka-tsu This character 且 is included in the list of common kanji but we don’t use it. I remember that it occasionally appeared in Japanese textbooks when we learned kam bun, that is, the Chinese classics. Japanese students learn how to read the Chinese classics at high school. You can make a Chinese passage sound [...]

naka, chū, jū We have uploaded another sōsho version of this character. Calligraphers’ useful dictionary is gotaijirui, which means the dictionary of five calligraphy styles. Five styles in calligraphy are kaisho, gyōsho, sōsho, tensho, and reisho. In each style, you can find many variations. Here is a kaisho style of the character.