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Say, maybe I just had my post disappear. I am sure that I put this one up about 4 hours ago.
Any way. The kanji on the left means stone or rock, and is pronounced SEKI or ISHI. The one on the right is either YU as above or ABURA. Together in this pair they are SEKIYU.
Not used in English, but it has the YU from SHOYU.
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #51 on: May 26th, 2004, 7:43pm » |
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Yes.
Now, what might you put these dead dinosaurs into.
The founder of this company was born in 1894, and started his company in the 1930s.
The kanji pair on the right are his name. The left side of the pair means abundent, or plentiful. The one on the right means field (like a rice paddy) with four sections of the field.
The three characters on the left are the name of the company in katakana. This is the way the company spells it. The two terms are pronounced almost the same.
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« Reply #53 on: Feb 8th, 2005, 8:56pm » |
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« Reply #54 on: Jun 1st, 2005, 5:49pm » |
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Yes. Sorry for the delay. I did not get the reply mail. But, I will fix that.
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Okay, here is another kanji. Although I have been away for more than a year, I will continue in the same vein as before.
The left side kanji is the first part of Nippon (NI). The second half means to produce or give birth.
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Here is another in the Industiral Series.
The first kanji (on the left) is the second part of Nippon (PON, HON).
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« Reply #57 on: Jun 1st, 2005, 6:54pm » |
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Okay, time for a new series. This will be the Home Series, or things you might find around the house.
Also, I am going to split the Kanji into radicals (where possible). This first one have split into two radicals.
The first is hand, we say it before in Karate. Now, as a radical, it is squished and its top falls off.
The second (right side) means Axe or Catty. A catty is a unit of weight used in China, it is about 500 g. Does it look like an axe?
If you put them together, what do you get?
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This one when combined, is then paired with the kanji above to give us an activity that children enjoy in Japan, and arouond the world.
The first part means thread, does it look thread like? It also means "one ten-thousandth of a hair", so getting into the nano range.
The second part means clan or family. It can also mean "Mister" if placed after a name.
So, put them together for a family of threads....
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Okay, the final in a set of three posts. This is the two kanji (each made of two radicals) from above. When paired, they create a word, that is well-known in English.
People might do it in the hope of spreading peace. But, it has also been used in outer space.
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This one is back to basics. The first three kanji should be pretty easy to figure out. The next three are a bit tougher... Except they mean the same thing. ichi, ni, san...
The difficult kanji for 1 (ichi) can be found on the 10,000 yen bill (ichiman en satsu). That is about 100 dollars or 50 pounds.
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Here is the whole sequence. Starting, of course, at one.
ichi
ni
san
shi (this is also sometimes yon)
go
roku
shichi
hachi
kyu
ju
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Now we move onto the higher numbers.
From the left, we have 100, next is 1000, and then 10,000. What are the next two?
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #63 on: Jun 10th, 2005, 11:08pm » |
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105 and 1012
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« Reply #64 on: Jun 10th, 2005, 11:12pm » |
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You have one right, but the other seems incorrect. But, it makes me wonder why you know the larger one, but not the smaller. A typo?
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #65 on: Jun 11th, 2005, 5:36am » |
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on Jun 10th, 2005, 11:12pm, Speaker wrote:
Yeah sorry, I was in a rush.
Bai = 102
Qian = 103
Wan = 104
Yi = 108
Zhao = 1012
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #66 on: Jun 12th, 2005, 5:26pm » |
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hyaku = 100
sen = 1,000
man = 10,000
oku = 100,000,000
cho = 1,000,000,000,000
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #67 on: Jun 13th, 2005, 12:21am » |
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Yeah, I forgot you were talking about Kanji, not Putonghua.
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #68 on: Jun 13th, 2005, 1:10am » |
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Yeah, I just figured I would put them up for comparison.
Are the stroke counts the same? I have recently been working next to a person who is working in Chinese, simplified and traditional. It is fun to find the variations in the strokes. (well, fun as in "hey that's interesting." Not fun as in "if you stop really fast in front of your friends, you can cover them with the snow that is thrown up from your skis." But, fun none the less.
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #69 on: Jun 13th, 2005, 11:04am » |
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The symbols of Kanji are borrowed from Traditional Chinese, aren't they?
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« Reply #70 on: Jun 13th, 2005, 5:17pm » |
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Yes, I think they are borrowed from traditional. But, they have been changed over the years in some cases. And, they are of course different from the simplified. I will try to find some examples.
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #71 on: Jul 5th, 2005, 7:23pm » |
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Please help me if you can!
In 2 weeks I will have to conduct a puzzle game for which I've decided to prepare a linguistic puzzle dealing with etymology of Chinese characters for chemical elements, but as I went to http://zhongwen.com/ (the only Chinese etymology site I know of) it turned out that it only has the explanations for just a few elements - those for which the characters are ancient: gold is obvious (silver, on the other hand, not so); iron, tin, and copper are very logical, as well as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus. The site does not explain mercury; is it literally "craftsman's water"? If yes, makes perfect sense.
Although I know that some elements have their characters chosen for purely phonetic reasons (e.g. oxygen is literally "sheep gas", and fluorine is "Buddha gas"), I hope that quite a few have been chosen to hint at the properties or the meaning of their Latin names as well as phonetics. I need about two dozen total. Thanks in advance!
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #72 on: Jul 6th, 2005, 11:37am » |
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on Jul 5th, 2005, 7:23pm, Leonid Broukhis wrote: The site does not explain mercury; is it literally "craftsman's water"?
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Mercury is literally 'silver water'.
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Re: Chinese/Japanese characters
« Reply #74 on: Jul 6th, 2005, 12:19pm » |
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Oh, and bromine must be very funny. Something about a dog there.
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