Let’s learn Japanese kanji 若 together!

今日の漢字は『若』。

若い - わかい young, youth

若者 - わかもの young people, youth

若禿 - わかはげ premature balding (at a young age)

若手(研究者) - わかて(けんきゅうしゃ) a young researcher; a young academic

若布 - わかめ wakame seaweed, edible (and very delicious! type of seeweed 海藻)

P.S. Did you know that if you put an open box radical around it, you get a kanji meaning ‘hide’ or ‘shelter‘?

若+匚 =

 

老若男女 - ろうにゃくなんにょ 

people of all ages and both sexes; men and women of all ages

四字熟語 Yojijukugo (Japanese four-character idiomatic compound)

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