Friendship 友情
yūjō2 characters15 strokes
友情 (yūjō) means friendship: the warm care and consideration that friends feel for one another and show in what they do.
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Meaning 意味
What 友情 means
The Japanese word for friendship, written with 2 kanji and read yūjō.
友情 is the caring feeling that friends share. The word joins 友, friend, and 情, feeling or affection.
When people write it in Japan. In Japan, 友情 is a common word for calligraphy at the start of a school term and for pieces about school life and friends.
Japanese children know every kanji here by 5th grade.
How to write it 書き方
Brush tips for 友情
Three things to watch
- Start 友 with the horizontal line. Make the left sweep long and the right sweep free and flowing.
- For the heart radical on the left of 情 (risshinben), write the left and right dots first. Then bring the vertical line straight down, long.
- In 青 on the right of 情, space the horizontal lines evenly.
Stroke order
Follow the vermilion stroke, frame by frame.
Stroke order data: KanjiVG by Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
How to practice 練習
Trace first, then copy
- PrintPrint both pages at actual size, on US Letter or A4. Page 1 is the model. Page 2 is the tracing sheet.
- TraceTrace the outlines with a brush pen. Or lay thin hanshi paper over the page and trace with brush and ink.
- CopySet the model beside your paper and copy it stroke by stroke. Look at the model more than at your own paper.
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