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Japanese: every Day A basic in Japanese Language Alphabet
Hiragana e Katakana Hiragana “A”, Katakana “A”
あア えエ
Hiragana “E”, Katakana “E”
Hiragana “i”, Katakana “i”
いイ
おオ
Hiragana “O”, Katakana “O”
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Hiragana “U”, Katana, “U”
う, 宇
Hiragana and Katakana “Ka”:
か, カ
Following our study of hiragana and katakana we have the syllable Ki:
Katakana
キ
as in キッチン kitchen that an also be
written as 台所
Hiragana
き
When we want to perform long vowels we can have different form to implement it such as
きい,キイ きー, キー In case of diphthongs we have the following:
Kya:
キャ, きゃ
Kya (long a)
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キャア,キャー Kyu
きゅ,キュ Kyuu (long u)
きゅう, きゅー キュウ, キュー Kyo
きょ, キョ Kyoo (long o)
きょう, きょお, きょー
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キョウ, キョオ, キョー The Ki is derived from Chinese hanzi 幾 that means how much? how ? and in pinyin it is read as ji. In Japanese we can find expressions like
幾ら - ikura that means how much? Or
幾つ ikutsu that means how many or how
old (young baby)
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Translation In order to proceed with organic translation I have taken the following free ebook and step by step we shall translate together http://www.loyalbooks.com/download/text/Book-34084.txt
Title: 法螺男爵旅⼟産 - Horadanshaku tabimiyage - Boast
Baron Travel Souvenirs
法螺 - hora - boast 男爵 - danshaku - baron 旅 - tabi - travel, journey ⼟産 - miyage - souvenir, present or gift Author: 佐々⽊邦 (Sasaki Kuni) In the book we have some old kanji, not simplified one for example we have the following:
譯述 - やくじゅつ 譯 that is pronounced yaku, eki, or wake(kun) and toku is simplified as
訳
訳述 やくじゅつ that means translation
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