@Metadon Nekoma derives from the name of a mountain called Nekomagatake. The kanji '猫' means cat and '魔' means devil.It is based on a legend that a man-eating cat devil once appeared on this mountain.@
2. Japanese: hiragana, katakana and kanji Although you could in theory speak Japanese without knowing any hiragana, katakana or kanji, to read or write you will need some level of knowledge of all three. Practically, to function in Japan, or to read Japanese books or newspapers, or to ...
However, it has to be something that’s actually achievable. A goal like “I want to memorize all 2,136 official kanji in one month” is highly unlikely to happen. It takes Japanese children 18 years to learn all of them! Instead, try for “I want to learn 15 kanji per day.” Way...
Speed learning Japanese: is it really possible? The 21st century has brought more than just new technology and globalization. It's also brought with it a more fast-paced and impatient society than ever before; a society that no longer has the time it once had to sit in a language class ...
For example, the letters “e” “a” and “t” do not mean anything individually in English other than the sounds they represent. You can put them together to spell words, such as “eat,” which then forms a meaning. However, in Japanese, there is a kanji for the meaning “eat” or...
"Please spell it with the kanji 「あ」 as in 「会う」"これを日本語で口頭で言うと →「会う」の「あ」を漢字で書いて下さい。「会う」の「あ」で伝わらない時は、「会話」の「かい」のように同じ漢字が使われている他の単語を付け加えて言います。@...
Chinese/Japanese words (after being separated) cannot be checked directly based on edit distance. There are thousands-or-more Chinese (or Japanese Kanji) characters and some characters are more "close" each other and some are more "distant". In my Korean dictionary experience, handling Korean ...
Typhoon (台風, たいふう), the Japanese cousin of the hurricane, have a boring naming convention. They get numbers followed by 号, whichI have written about previously. So you have 1号, 2号, 3号, etc. As in America, they’re really only dangerous to areas in the south like Okinawa ...
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In short, Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet to spell out how Chinese characters are pronounced in Mandarin. But more on that later. Here’s an example. If you want to write the word for “mountain range,” or 山脉 (Shānmài), on a computer, you would simply type its pronunciation in ...