19 October 2017
Japanese: every Day A basic in Japanese Language Alphabet
Japanese language it is considered one of the most difficult idiom in the world for the following reasons: 1) Structure of the sentence 2) Mixed Syllabic and ideogram system 3) A lot of words with the same sounds 4) Some ideogram (kanji) with two different pronunciation 5) Vowel/consonant harmony
Hiragana e Katakana Hiragana “A”, Katakana “A”
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Hiragana “E”, Katakana “E”
えエ Hiragana “i”
い Katakana “i”
イ The Katakana is derived from the left part of 伊, please note that this component it is a shortened form of the word man that is ⼈ (hito in Japanese, ten in Chinese) The hiragana is derived by 以 yi that in Chinese means with , in order to, by and as verb “to use”. In Japanese means “or more” A nice simple kanji easy to remember is 余⼈ yojin, that means the others
漢漢字, ⽇日, ⽉月
Kanji 漢字 We have some 漢字 derived from images and we call them pictograms we start with them
⽇ that means Sun or day and have 2 pronunciation 1) Hi 2) Nichi We now see some application in the day of the week ⽇曜⽇ - > Sunday , Nichiyobi
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⽉曜⽇ -> Monday spelled as getsuyobi where ⽉ means moon or month . ⽉ is vocalised as tsuki ⽕曜⽇ -> Tuesday kaiyobi where ⽕ (hi) means fire Very often you can omit the final ⽇ in the pronunciation or in the writing as meaning is clear Please note the nice change from the pronunciation HI to BI ⽔曜⽇ -> Wednesday pronounced Suiyobi, where ⽔ sui means water.
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