Fine

by Nao

hare, hare-ru, ha-rasu, sei

It’s about weather. Fine or sunny weather is hare or seiten. When the weather forecast predicts that tomorrow will be fine, it reports, “asu wa hareru deshou.” Hareru means to become fine or clear. If the sky cleared up after bad weather, you can say, “hareta, ” which is the past tense of hareru.

The verb hareru can be used for other things that clear up. Your heart and mind are examples. You can say, “kokoro ga hareru” or “ki ga hareru.” Ga is joshi (a particle) that follows a subject. The former means that your heart lifted; the latter means that your spirit is refreshed.

Suspicion is also applied to this category. “Utagai ga hareru” means that suspicion is dispelled. While hareru sounds passive, harasu means to dispel. The things you can dispel with the verb, harasu, are bad feelings such as suspicion (utagai), gloom (usa), and grudge (urami). We say, “utagai wo harasu,” “usa wo harasu,” and “urami wo harasu,” respectively. In these situations, we do something proactively to dispel them.

First, draw the left-hand side of the character.

1. Draw the left side of the rectangle.
2. Draw the upper side and the right side of the rectangle.
3. Draw the horizontal stroke in the rectangle.
4. Draw the lower side of the rectangle.
5. Begin to draw the right-hand side. Draw the top horizontal line from the left to the right.
6. Draw the vertical line from the top.
7. Draw the second horizontal stroke.
8. Draw the third horizontal stroke.
9. Draw the vertical stroke on the left.
10. Draw the right-angled hook. Turn upward at the end and make a thorn-like ending.
11. Draw the horizontal stroke in the middle.
12. Draw the lower horizontal stroke. All the horizontal strokes are parallel.

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