Sunday, April 22, 2012

I noticed a Kanji(1): 見 (み、けん looking; viewing)



As mentioned in one of the previous entries, one of Steve Kaufman’s tips is to look at the language actively and notice patterns, returning words, and so on.
There are many kanji that keep recurring in several words. If you notice and recognize them, this can help you in remembering the kanji for nouns, as well as the meaning of compounds and verbs.

At a certain point, I found that I started recognizing kanji and as such understanding the meaning of a word without actually having learned that word, especially if it exists out of several kanji. This was actually very stimulating and encouraged me to memorise more kanji than those that we learned in class.

This is the first of a series or articles where I share the kanji that I notice and recognize in other words.

見える      みえます          to look; to seem; to appear;

発見・する はっけん・します  to discover;

花見        はなみ            cherry blossom viewing; flower viewing
意見        いけん            opinion; view; comment

見出し      みだし            heading; headline; caption; subtitle; index

会見        かいけん          interview; audience

見学        けんがく          to visit a factory for study

見本        みほん            sample

1 comment:

Mina said...

Your English translation was helpful for me. Thank you :)

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