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Kaji01 — Japanese Numbers Tutorial
Published: 2005-09-03 13:31:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 2696; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 84
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After doing a request for another kanji character for a friend ([link] ), I decided to go ahead and try doing a series of these, both to help myself practice as well as to help teach anyone who cares to follow along. I'll try my best to keep them grouped together logically as I do them, might be repeats now and then if a character can fit into multiple groups.For this one, I decided to do the numbers from 1 to 10. As I'm trying to present it as something of a calligraphy piece I'm keeping my comments on how to draw the characters in the descrptions so that the presentation itself looks clean. Each line is a single character, starting at one and counting off until we hit ten, with the strokes drawn out to illustrate along the way. In the case of this piece:
1 (ichi) - 1 stroke
2 (ni) - 2 strokes
3 (san) - 3 strokes
4 (shi/yon) - 5 strokes (the second stroke combines the top and right sides of the box)
5 (go) - 4 strokes (similar to 4, bring the stroke that goes through the center down in one fluid stroke)
6 (roku) - 4 strokes
7 (shichi/nana) - 2 strokes
8 (hachi) - 2 strokes
9 (kyuu) - 2 strokes
10 (juu) - 2 strokes
If anyone out there wants me to do lessons for hiragana and/or katakana, let me know and I'll see about getting some done for those as well. Likewise, feel free to make any requests if you have kanji you want to learn!
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Numbers are amazing how they can be arrayed. The things you can do with numbers is nothing short of a story that should be told. Take the numbers in this link [link] , take the patturn by wich these numbers increase and extend this patturn to the amount of the highest number being Meameamealokkapoowa Oompa, extende this by that number of times further than the orginal set while continueing the rate at wich these numbers increase....what number would be at the end of this. Now take the orginal set of numbers in the link and the new number generated by the extending of the patturn to the highest number and count these as two steps and continue the patturn of these steps for a Meameamealokkapoowa Oompa number of times what number would that create. Now take what was done so far with the two steps and the extended number after them and count them as two super steps and extend this patturn or whatever for a Meameamealokkapoowa Oompa number of times and imagine the number that would create. Take all these recursive patturns so far and advance them for a Meameamealokkapoowa Oompa number of times with a number. Thank you for this.
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For a while, I thought you jumped right into Chinese.... same characters, same order, for the same ten numbers. Interesting, eh? Possibly, as an improvement for a tutorial, would be to have little arrows on the longer, multi-directional strokes to indicate the direction of movement for the brush. Example would be the second stroke in the four, since they look like separate strokes to the untrained eye. Just an idea.
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I'm working primarily with Japanese for now, but I've been learning a lot more Chinese of late since a third of my campus is from Taiwan this year. May go ahead and do a couple guides for telling the differences between traditional and simplified characters for the fun of it...hehehe..
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