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8strokes1school year in Japan
on reading
ガク

Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.

kun reading
まなぶ

It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.

Stroke order

The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.

Elements you can see in it

Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.

In the episode words

Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.

まなぶmanabuto learnep1

ブラジルでも、日本でも、失敗からぶことは同じですね。

Burajiru demo, Nihon demo, shippai kara manabu koto wa onaji desu ne.

In Brazil or in Japan, learning from mistakes is the same thing, right.

がっこうgakkouschoolep6

校の時から。だいたい八年くらい。

Gakkou no toki kara. Daitai hachinen kurai.

Since school. About eight years, more or less.

Other kanji sharing pieces

Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-09-07 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0