Many local Japanese restaurant have no English menu. This article summarize letters in high frequent menu. Japanese Food vocabulary 寿司、鮨、すし、スシ All pronounce same, same meaning…sushi The difference of two kanjis...
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,...
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...
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....
月 Kanji, Tsuki or Getsu expresses moon. 月曜日(Getsu You Bi) is monday. Until here, it’s normal things, right? But this letter change the meaning when it is used to letter...
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 ,...
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...
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...
貝(kai) This letter meaning is a shell. Shell had a function as money in old times. So, if you saw 貝 in letters, feel transaction or money reference. 買(kai) is...
雨(Ame) means rain. 雨雲(Ama Gumo) means Rainy Cloud. So, 雲 is cloud, and the letter’s upper part is same form with the 雨 letter. 雨 is attached whether expressing letter. Weather letter examples...