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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

as in キッチン kitchen that an also be

written as 台所

Hiragana

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

訳述 やくじゅつ that means translation

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