# Kanji reading help **URL:** \ **Category:** Japanese Language\ **Created:** [August 1, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164 "2020-08-01T03:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vendemiaire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/vendemiaire/32/260300_2.png) [@Vendemiaire](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Vendemiaire)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/1 "2020-08-01T03:49:32Z")
Guys! Help! How do you read this? ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/c/7/e/c7efe362703cc5d7e70808bb2b505464f60be7f1.jpeg) It was on a game. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/2 "2020-08-01T03:53:42Z")
Wild shot in the dark… 両方とも? I’m pretty sure it’s something + とも anyway. ---
**Author:** ![prouleau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/prouleau/32/376127_2.png) [@prouleau](https://community.wanikani.com/u/prouleau)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/3 "2020-08-01T04:07:45Z")
You managed to read something in these chicken scratches? I am amazed. I can see your と but this is as far as I can go. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/4 "2020-08-01T04:13:30Z")
Knowing the stroke order of も makes it fairly easy to decipher. It starts at the top and loops to the right, and then you do the 2 horizontal lines, so those frequently become kind of a connected z from the loop. ---
**Author:** ![prouleau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/prouleau/32/376127_2.png) [@prouleau](https://community.wanikani.com/u/prouleau)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/5 "2020-08-01T04:16:04Z")
Now I see it. But it seems to me this is a very lazy way to draw a も. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/6 "2020-08-01T04:19:39Z")
Calligraphers would probably object to that characterization 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stay\_coolXD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/stay_coolxd/32/658252_2.png) [@Stay\_coolXD](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Stay_coolXD)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/7 "2020-08-01T04:20:43Z")
No single idea ---
**Author:** ![prouleau](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/prouleau/32/376127_2.png) [@prouleau](https://community.wanikani.com/u/prouleau)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/8 "2020-08-01T04:24:53Z")
I know nothing about calligraphy. What you say suggests calligraphers are OK with not raising the brush between strokes. I don’t know but this is what I deduce. ---
**Author:** ![rever4217](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/rever4217/32/284602_2.png) [@rever4217](https://community.wanikani.com/u/rever4217)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:36am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/9 "2020-08-01T04:36:39Z")
What is that monstrosity on the left? Looks like 飛 but at the same time nothing like it. ---
**Author:** ![valkow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/valkow/32/729227_2.png) [@valkow](https://community.wanikani.com/u/valkow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/10 "2020-08-01T06:15:01Z")
All I can see in the left side is a flipped 辶 (the radical of 道)… ---
**Author:** ![anon88459823](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@anon88459823](https://community.wanikani.com/u/anon88459823)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/12 "2020-08-01T09:21:20Z")
incredibly hot take, but … ![c7efe362703cc5d7e70808bb2b505464f60be7f1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/8/0/e/80e2ea7ebcb2500c8a2cadcf49713f2a4f547378.jpeg) if flipped horizontally you see the radical formely known as [water slide](https://www.wanikani.com/radicals/scooter). not that it makes the rest any easier to decipher, although - with my very limit experience in writing - to me at least that seems to flow way better. ---
**Author:** ![heisamaniac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/heisamaniac/32/184098_2.png) [@heisamaniac](https://community.wanikani.com/u/heisamaniac)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/13 "2020-08-01T09:28:50Z")
The first part looked like a kanji containing 周 to me at first. 彫 came to mind but the three strokes on the right are not in the correct direction I believe… I also see とも at the end ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/14 "2020-08-01T09:31:11Z")
Yeah, that’s a good match. I’m not sure I agree that the direction of the strokes is wrong. They should be upper right to lower left like that. ---
**Author:** ![RoseEater](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/roseeater/32/306185_2.png) [@RoseEater](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RoseEater)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/15 "2020-08-01T09:33:09Z")
That is correct. Sōsho (草書) is the style of Shodō (書道) that can involve not removing the brush until the character is complete. But everyone has their own style, and the one on this page is certainly very… squiggly. ---
**Author:** ![Nemuitanuki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/nemuitanuki/32/448041_2.png) [@Nemuitanuki](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Nemuitanuki)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/16 "2020-08-01T09:39:35Z")
My Japanese husband had trouble reading it. He says maybe it says tattoo friends? ほり and とも for friends He’s not sure though. ---
**Author:** ![heisamaniac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/heisamaniac/32/184098_2.png) [@heisamaniac](https://community.wanikani.com/u/heisamaniac)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/17 "2020-08-01T10:59:54Z")
> [@Leebo](#): > > I’m not sure I agree that the direction of the strokes is wrong. They should be upper right to lower left like that. Oh yeah you’re right! I looked at it in a strange way. ---
**Author:** ![RoseEater](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/roseeater/32/306185_2.png) [@RoseEater](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RoseEater)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/18 "2020-08-01T16:15:49Z")
> [@Nemuitanuki](#): > > tattoo friends “Get a tattoo friend” has now been added to the bucket list 😜 ---
**Author:** ![trystero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/trystero/32/69537_2.png) [@trystero](https://community.wanikani.com/u/trystero)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/19 "2020-08-01T16:38:55Z")
if it’s from the Yakuza games, the guy who draws the tattoos is named Horitomo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/kanji-reading-help/45164/20 "2021-08-01T16:39:53Z")
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