Smoke

by Nao

kemuri, kemu-i, kemu-tai, kemu-ru, en

Smoke is kemuri.  A smokestack and a chimney, which we rarely see now, are called entotsu. The totsu of entotsu means a hole.

The adjective kemui means smoky. The adjective kemutai also means smoky. When you feel this kind of smokiness or kemutasa (-sa is added to adjectives in the place of -i to form nouns), the smoke hurts your eyes and chokes your throat. Somebody annoying you can be described as kemutai.

The verb kemuru means to become smoky or to become hazy.

Tobacco, which we call tabako, consists of today’s character and sō meaning grass.

Some words in Japanese are -> here.

1. Draw the dot to the left.
2. Draw the sweeping dot near the center.
3. Draw the sweeping stroke from the top to the lower left corner of the character.
4. Draw the dot touching the previous stroke.
5. Begin to draw the right-hand side of the character. Draw the horizontal stroke on the top.
6. Draw the left side of the rectangle.
7. Draw the upper and right sides of the rectangle.
8. Draw the vertical strokes crossing the upper side of the rectangle. Draw the left one first.
9. Draw the other vertical stroke.
10. Draw the lower side of the rectangle.
11. Draw the horizontal stroke below the rectangle.
12. Draw the vertical stroke crossing the previous stroke.
13. Draw the horizontal stroke at the bottom.