and therefore so-called manyōgana was created by using kanji characters that sounded like Japanese syllables. This technique can be seen in the “Manyoshu.” However, since kanji have a large number of strokes, they take a long time to ...
Bakunyu is a term that has existed for a while now, but hasn’t been thrown around a lot until recently. Bakunyuu is actually a Japanese word created by slamming two different Kanji together to get a new meaning. The first part, Baku, 爆, means literally an explosion of some sort; whet...
Chinese character; Japanese: kanji; Korean: hanja; Vietnamese: hán tự 汉子 hànzi man; fellow; (dialect) husband 汉族 hànzú Han ethnic group 汉奸 hànjiān traitor (to China) Words With Same Tail Word 华语 huáyǔ Chinese language 英语 yīngyǔ English (language) 母语 mǔyǔ native ...
Each old name has meaning. If you know about the Japanese climate, you might wonder whyminazuki(June) is the month of no water. June is rainy season (tsuyu) in Japan. However, the old Japanese calendar was about a month behind the European calendar. This meansminazukiwas from July 7th t...
Since you can't comment after the question is closed, I post my answer here. Hope you'll find it.How do you think I can answer to the question when I don't even know if it's a story? I guess it's because the story was great before it's destructed by the translator, maybe.You...
Breaking Down the Kanji –妖怪 Like most Japanese words, the key to the meaning is in the kanji. So let’s start there. Yokai uses two kanji; 妖(yo) which means “mysterious, bewitching, unearthly, weird.” It doesn’t really have a scary nuance to it, but more of the attraction ...
A.visitedB.visitC.willvisitD.visiting 2.Myfather___mebysayingthatIcouldwininthespeechcontest,soItookpartinit. A.discouragedB.encouragedC.preventedD.asked 3.Thesquirrelwasluckythatitjustmissed___. A.catchingB.tobecaughtC.beingcaughtD.tocatch 4.Thebankisreportedinthelocalnewspaper,___inbroaddaylig...
JapaneseJournalof Religious Studies 1989 16/24 Shugendo ore' GORAIShigeru 3 s ZE Shugendo and its Lore Most of what we know of Shugendo belongs to the realm of danshd Ej$ , that is, "tradition" or miscellaneous lore. That is because Shugendo was a religion of practice rather than of...
There is also a theory that “moshi moshi” gained traction as a way to ensure that the person speaking to you isn’t a ghost, as spooky creatures like foxes and youkai cannot say “moshi” twice. Regardless of where the term comes from, it’s a key part of daily Japanese and you ...
Yes, I suppose it is a kind of zeugma. The Russian translator decided to split it into two sentences, sacrificing the comic effect for the sake of stylistic correctness: “The plumber was pale. The plumber hated me.” John Cowan says November 9, 2017 at 11:11 am Actual anacolutha ...