Walked past a sign today that was only a couple of kanji, and had the realisation that hey, I know those! The first one was the kanji for ‘day’ or ‘sun’, and is a part of tons of words (including ‘Japan’ itself). The second kanji was the one for ‘to stand’. I know that one because it’s pretty simple, and it’s also in the name of the city ward where I live so I have to write it down all the time.

Then I was struck by the realisation that I knew how to read it as well. Knowing the meaning and knowing how to read kanji are two different things, but in this case, the name of the company was “Hitachi” – yay me!

Another day, another NaNoWriMo word count goal met. Chugging along…