Japanese basics for every day 4

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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”

あア 1

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Hiragana “E”, Katakana “E”

えエ Hiragana “i”, Katakana “i”

いイ Hiragana “O”

お Katakana “O”

オ

Both these 2 signs are derived by Chinese 於

於

means IN and it is vocalised as O in Japanese. We

can also find the form 於ける that is spelled as Okeru. This kanji is the same in Chinese, in mandarin is vocalised as Yu with a long “ee” at the beginning. .

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 2

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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 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. ⽊曜⽇ -> Thursday, Mokuyobi, were ⽊ means tree or wood and it is normally pronounced as KI. In Chinese it is the same kanji spelled as Mu. ⾦曜⽇ -> Friday , Kinyobi where ⾦ means money or gold or metal. In Chinese the same kanji means metal or gold. ⼟曜⽇ -> Saturday, Doyobi, ⼟ means soil, earth, land pronounced as tsuchi. ⼟ in Chinese means also earth or dust.

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