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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”
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Hiragana “E”, Katakana “E”
えエ Hiragana “i”, Katakana “i”
いイ Hiragana “O”, Katakana “O”
お
オ
Hiragana “U”
う Katakana “U”
宇 Both are derived from this kanji that we can read as U, Noki o IE e means eaves or space, derived by Chinese with same meaning.
Kanji 漢字 漢漢字, ⽇日, ⽉月
We have some 漢字 derived from images and we call them pictograms we start with them
⽇ (Hi, Nichi) - Sun or day
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⽇曜⽇ - > Sunday , Nichiyobi ⽉曜⽇ -> Getsuyobi Monday ⽕曜⽇ -> Tuesday Kaiyobi ⽔曜⽇ -> Wednesday, Suiyobi, ⽊曜⽇ -> Thursday, Mokuyobi, ⾦曜⽇ -> Friday , Kinyobi ⼟曜⽇ -> Saturday, Doyobi, We can extend this meaning to star and planet:
星 (Hoshi) that means star 惑星 (wakusei) that means planet As you can see there is the kanji for sun or day plus a second component that is
⽣ Nama that means living, in Chinese
means to generate, to be born, health. While planet has the same kanji plus another that is composed by ⼼ that is read Kokomo and means heart, mind and 或 Haru that means “Some” like in some day, together it is 惑 that means beguile or to be confused, because it is not certain the heart . 惑 has 3 pronunciation: waku, koku or madou/madofu
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