In Japanese, every consonant is followed by a vowel. Compare Turkicqazand Japanesekári(“goose”); Koreančilgop-and Japaneseyorókób-u(“to be happy”); and Turkic and Mongoliantag(“mountain”), Malaydaki(“to go up”), and Japanesetake(“mountain”). Medieval Chineselukgives Japanese...
It's kind of like if I gave you a pair of binoculars and told you to find me the highest mountain in the world, using only your eyes. However, that involved a mountain of previously unconsidered problems. English word "山 (yama)"(mountain) occurs in sets:słowka japoński podstawowe...
Another example: the native Japanese word for mountain isyama, and the Sino-Japanese word issan, both are written with the kanji 山 - it's shān in Mandarin The character for mountain (山) appears in words such as: 山(yama) = mountain, hill, mine, heap, pile ...
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The on'yomi readings (san or zan) are used in more formal or Sino-Japanese contexts, such as names, titles, and compound words. The kun'yomi reading (yama) is the native Japanese word for mountain and is commonly used in informal or geographical contexts....
空港[くうこう]:airport for public transportation 出発[しゅっぱつ]:departure, starting 地図[ちず]:map, atlas 運転[うんてん]:drive 降りる[おりる]:get off, land ガス:gas loan word 必ず[かならず]:without exception, always カメラ:camera 通う[かよう]:go to and from, fr...
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Kanji are the Chinese characters which are used in a simplified form in Japanese.There are 1,850 kanji for regular use (toyo kanji),with more being used in names.The difficulty of Japanese kanji is that one kanji may have several readings.For example,the simple kanji for mountain(山)may ...
Devotional Fuji confraternities (Fujikō 富士講) also spread to Edo and to surrounding provinces, where many believed the mountain would become the paradise of the Future Buddha (aka Miroku 弥勒), who in turn would create an age of prosperity and justice. Fuji Mandara were used for the ...
In general, a Buddhist temple in Japan is called "JI" or "TERA" or "IN." But, owing to grammatical considerations, a Buddhist temple in a mountain retreat is called a "YAMA-DERA" -- it is not called YAMA-TERA. Yama is the Japanese word for mountain, and Terayama is the name of ...