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February 26, 2019

Asian city meaning

This time is about land name. Japan city meaning Tokyo meaning, 東京 means Eastern Metropolis. And the old name Edo(江-戸) is directoly translated to Coast-Door. Even in these days, Children...

January 7, 2018

Kanji for person 人

人(hito)means person or human. This letter’s part form transforms like イ from 人. 侍, this letter’s left part.  let’s get started,   At fast, the above letter 侍(samurai) means, yep...

December 1, 2016

土 Soil related letters

土(tsuchi) is soil. 士(shi, or samurai) is soldier. this letter is resemble to 土(pronounce is do, means soil). so be careful. Under bars are different each other. 土星(pronounce as dosei)(soil,...

May 1, 2016

Name letters pt.2

Name letter pt.1 treated with last name. This time, treating with Japanese fist names. At fast Ichiro, Jiro, Japanese name by Numbering 一郎、二郎、三郎、四郎、五郎(Ichiro, Jiro, Saburo, Shiro, Goro) The first letters...

February 28, 2016

Foreign country kanji

Foreign countries’ names letters In Japan people use Katakana, in China people use directly alphabet sometimes, but both countries have Kanji writings of foreign countries, and which are use mainly....

February 4, 2016

Beastie monkey

Beast Letters 2016 is a monkey year by Eastern Asian year custom. Monkey is 猿 or 申. Nikko Monkey Army’s show The latter letter is a old letter of monkey,...

November 10, 2015

Thread 糸

糸 (Ito) means thread. 糸 the letter form looks like spinning machine. Spinning is 紡績 (bo seki). 紡 (Bo or Tsumugi) is making thread. 積 (Seki) is many meaning.  stuck, place on ,...

October 28, 2015

Character study in kanji natives

Character learning in natives I was questioned it this problem by Canadian friend. So, this time is column article about how to study letters among native Asians. Simply saying, In...

October 13, 2015

Asian Name characters about last name

Asian last name characters Name letters have own culture of the each country. 張(Zhang) : meaning blind sheet.(don’t imagine plastic ones in office, maybe Oriental traditional types.) 佐藤(Sato) : Nearly...

October 8, 2015

Words of word”言”

言(gen) This letter means word or saying something. There’re the wide kinds of meaning letters,in which including this parts. Even like that, Many of them connect to “saying things” at...

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