Today’s second #kanji is #円. It’s made of #まきがまえ/#けいがまえ（冂）. 円 used to be an informal variant of 圓 which is…
一
Today’s first #kanji is #一. 一 also makes a radical.
紙
Today’s second #kanji is #紙 – it’s made of いとへん（糸） and 氏 (family name). 紙 is made of fibre and…
飯
Today’s first #kanji is #飯 – its radical is しょくへん（飠） which is from 食 (to eat), and its pronunciation indicator…
自
Today’s second #kanji is #自. It has one more stroke than #白 (white), but these two characters are not related.…
曜
Today’s first #kanji is #曜. It’s made of #ひへん（日） with 2 x katakana ヨ (actually 羽) and #ふるとり（隹）. Altogether 18…
教
Today’s second #kanji is #教. It’s listed under #ぼくづくり（攵） in my kanji dictionary. Its original form is 敎 and 教…
洗
Today’s first #kanji is #洗. Another #さんずいへん（氵） kanji. Its つくり (the right side of a kanji) is #先, which serves…
泊
Today’s second #kanji is #泊. Again it has a #さんずいへん（氵）, which indicates some association with water. This time its つくり…
活
Today’s first #kanji is #活, which is made of #さんずいへん（氵） and #舌（ゼツ/した/tongue）although its original つくり (the right side of a…
歩
Today’s second #kanji is #歩. 歩 is made of 止 (to stop) and 少 (a little, a few), Some people…
通
Today’s first #kanji is #通. It’s made of #しんにょう/#しんにゅう（辶） and 甬. 甬 can be pronounced as ヨウ or ユ but 通…
終
Today’s second #kanji is #終. It’s made of いとへん（糸） and 冬. 冬（ふゆ/winter） is the last season of the year, so…
始
Today’s first #kanji is #始, which is made of おんなへん（女） and 台. 台 usually means a stand or a pedestal…
作
Today’s second #kanji is #作. This one also has にんべん（イ, people）. The right side 乍 is in Japanese often read…
使
Today’s first #kanji is #使. It is made of にんべん（イ、person/people） and 吏. 吏 means a lower class government officer, so it…
働
Today’s second #kanji is #働.にんべん（イ, “a person/people”) is added to the previous kanji 動.I guess people need to move things…
動
Today’s first #kanji is #動. Most kanji dictionaries seem to list this under the radical of #ちから（力）. It’s written as…
物
Today’s second #kanji is #物, which is made of #うしへん（牜） and 勿. うしへん（牜） suggests its association with a cow/cattle. 勿…
売
Today’s first #kanji is #売. It is listed under the radical of #さむらい（士）, so make sure you write the top…
