RJT 2 母・毎・父

In our last episode, you learned that this is supposed to look like a woman sitting cross-legged.

• 女

• 男

• 人

• 子

Practice writing 女（おんな）woman again

In our last episode, you learned that this is a stick-figure person. Practice writing 人（ひと）

Now, if that woman becomes a mother, she is going to need breasts to feed her baby. Ask me about the time I was drawing the evolution of this kanji on the board and the principal walked in.

mother　母

Groups:

(a) くんよみ

,

(b) おんよみ

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(c) If you add さん

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(d) Not a pronunciation

• おかさん

• おかあさん

• ぼ

• ”Mrs. Oka”

• ”Mr. Oka”

• はは

母

Groups:

(a) Talking ABOUT your mother

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(b) Talking about someone else's mother

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(c) Looking your mother in the eyes and talk

• Be polite!

• Column 3　おかあさん

• おかあさん

• Column 3 お母さん

• お母さん

• You want to be polite when talking TO your own mother

• These are the same answers as talking about someone else's mom

• はは

• Be humble!

• 母

Match the following

• さん

• Honorific 「お」。This "softens" what you are going to say

• お

• Polite ending

• 母（かあ）

• the kanji

Things that get an honorific　「お」 , because they are important and you want to speak reverently of them

Groups:

(a) Things that you are polite about

,

(b) Bah! Who needs to be polite to them?

• little brothers

• Father（お父さん）

• water (おみず）

• little sisters

• Mother（お母さん）

• Mr. Policeman （おまわりさん）

• Sushi（おすし）

• Grandpa（おじいさん）

• Grandmother（おばあさん）

• The bathroom（おトイレ）

• older brother（おにいさん）

• older sister（おねえさん）

Now, remember that it is really hard to chisel concepts like "blue" as a picture into a rock. So for this next word, the story is "Every person has a mother." That gives us the meaning of "every."
Combine "person" and "mother."

• 毎

• 行

• 日本人

• 休

• 体

毎

Groups:

(a) くんよみ

,

(b) おんよみ

,

(c) Not a pronunciation

• まえ

• まい

• There is no くんよみ