Tag: kanji

  • Learning katakana really fast.

    Today is the first day I began learning katakana. I can already see some pattern. 5 letters are almost same as their hiragana counterpart. Here; や か い に へ = (will put katakana ya ka ri ni he which are the almost same as the ones shown, can’t find a good mobile friendly transliteration)…

  • Learning a few interesting kanji.

    Originally written October 2012. Explained and expanded today, 27-01-2014. Friday, October 5, 2012 at 3:02 pm UTC + 05:30 word of the day: 体 karada and 休 kyuu 。 note 1; 亻this fellow is whats called ninben, which means “person-like part-of-a-kanji”, a part-of-a-kanji is called, a radical, which means a component of a kanji. This…

  • What sort of world I live in?

    What sort of world I live in?

    Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 6:29 am UTC + 05:30 shared Japan Culture Agency Inc. (JCA)’s photo. from here (the missing-picture) I can read about 10 kanjis without consulting anywhere .. and recognize the meaning of each one here because I knew them previously (about 20 and includes the radicals)? This leaves only 4/5 maximum…

  • Citizen Scientist. (a misleading title)

    (Agility, dynamism and masculinity etc, see how I found therefore, 力 in 男 which means man or male. The latter 男, come by merging: strength 力 and sun 日, the power of the sun are what male are usually, woman’s kanji 女, called onna, jou-sei, dan-sei or jo=jiyo=jou=jiyou, they all mean ladies or feminine, comes…

  • hiragana, katakana and romaji characters.

    hiragana, katakana and romaji characters.

    hiragana, katakana and romaji characters. The Japanese alphabet-syllabary. I created the following charts with color, and design. The original source of the chart is available at omniglot.