ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Japanese - a native or inhabitant of Japan Nipponese samurai - feudal Japanese military aristocracy ninja - a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassination...
Landing with a bump back down to earth, in my kitchen cabinet I havemisosachets ready to make a delicious noodle soup whenever I manage to kid myself I’m being healthy. (Though talking about miso may feel vaguely modern, in fact it’s one of the oldest Japanese loanwords in English.)...
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Did You Know? Japanese words in English English has a fairly large number of Japanese loanwords. Among them are the fol...
Words in Japanese can be written three different ways. Kanjicharacters can be used to represent an entire object, idea or meaning. Words and names can also be spelled out using one of two different Japanese alphabets (hiraganaandKatakana). The choice depends on what you want to say, and wha...
Alphabetizing Japanese words in a portable electronic language interpreterAkira TanimotoSigeaki Masuzawa
Japanese Words The first thing you will notice about Japanese is most words end with a vowel. This is why the pronunciation can sound so different than English. When you are trying to pronounce Japanese remember that the individual vowel sounds are not very different from Spanish. Pronunciatio...
Maji[mah-jee] is anintensifier, used for situations where you want to add a real emphasis, like the English wordsvery,really, andso. Let’s say you’ve been watching a film starring famousikemenTakeru Satoh. You might turn to your friend and say:Takeru Satoh tte maji kakkoii!Or, “Take...
English to Japanese Hiragana symbols Hiragana alphabet is rounded in shape. Hiragana is often used to write the grammatical parts of words and sentences when kanji cannot be used. Here's English to Japanese hiragana converter service>> Hiragana symbols Translation ...
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6. The Secret to Learning the Japanese Alphabet FastTop Now, what if I told you you could learn the Japanese alphabet even faster? To help you master hiragana and katakana we created a series to introduce them and teach you a few words you can write with these characters. This video ...