Learn Japanese Kanji Symbols

Kanji are the most popular Japanese script out of 3 writing.
These characters are called "Ideographs", "Ideograms" or "Pictograms" in the world, because a Kanji Symbols, character express an idea, and represents meaning in a visual way.

For example, some kanji characters are developed like this:

You see, both the 'Sun' Kanji and the 'Tree' Kanji look like the things they represent.
However, this is NOT always the case.
There are some kanji which don't look at all like the things they represent.

Thoese pictorial Kanji that are mentioned above are Kanji characters which have meanings themselves. However, they can be also combined together and can be different Kanji characters. For example, by combining the 'tree' Kanji character together, Kanji characters will have the meaning of "Wood".

To write Japanese Kanji Symbols, there are the basic rules to apply Kanji characters.
There are some aspects of stroke order which plays an important role in the overall feeling of the kanji.

For example, the kanji symbols for 'tree' is written like the following stroke order:

However, because of the increasing popularity of computers, a lot of Japanese young people, in fact, don't really care about this rule.