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iwant to know what is the difference between romaji,hiragana, katakana and kanji.why sometimes i read the book in japanese it is in all the hiragana and katakana,but sometimes it is mixed with kanji??why like that???anyone can help me??arigato gozaimashita. |
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i'm no expert, but from what i know is katakana is for foreign words (ex. aribito - german for arbite - parttime job) hiragana is for regular japanaese and kanji are the words derived from chinese. oh, and romaji is just the english pronunciation of the words :) i hope that explains it..  |
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Yeah, like that guy said below. Hiragana - Your basic Japanese letter system. Katakana - For foreign words that is not Japanese Kanji - Chinese characters. These usaually hold more meaning and feeling than if you were to write it in Hiragana. It gives the sentence a meaning and feeling.passion. I hope that clears it up a little.  |
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what is the foreign word u[youko] mean ??is it [rajio]=[radio]?? but why sometimes i only look hiragana in a japanase topic or essay.they have no kanji.can a essay form withoutkanji?? |
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| hey youko!!is it some hiragana can translate to kanji????the kanji in japanese also can be write in hiragana??? |
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kanji can be written in hiragana. if u look at some animes or japanese candies they'll have the hiragana right next to the kanji for the kiddies who are still learning their kanji's. i'm not sure about ur question on why there isn't kanji in sometimes.. i guess its just how picky the author is. an essay w/ kanji would probably look more professional. i had one japanese teacher who could care less about kanji and katakana and another who would make u down like crazy for not using kanji and katakana. |
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| hi korndog!!can u give me ur e-mail add.i hope u can tell me clearly. |
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Well, since words in Japanese can have multiple meanings, I think Kanji also helps in clarifying which one you mean. ie: 切る　and ç€ã‚‹ are both kiru in hiragana. One means to cut, other means to wear. |
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I am a japanese expert I guess... I am japanese and thats what I speak at home.... ã“ã‚“ã«ã¡ã¯çš†ã•ã‚“ï¼ãŠå…ƒæ°—ã§ã™ã‹ï¼Ÿ and if you still wondering on the katakana and hiragana and why some ppl don't use kanji, its a form of writing... Sometimes they might be lazy and write in hiragana instead of kanji *snickers* but that method is used in poetry to express the meanings better and look at the word better. Of course it might be for kiddies ^>^ And Katakana is just because of foreign words. Like Tifa would be a foreign name or not japanese and would be ティファ not ã¦ãƒãµã it would also look funny. Sometimes they use it for sounds and also they use it in manga to make it stand out. To make it weird and like saying "LOOK AT THIS WORD!!!!" 
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lazy sounds good to me. i hate memorizing kanji.. killed my grade in that class. ugh. shen, my email is khaledg@gmail.com, don't mind if u email me, just don't flood me :) |
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Kanji is quicker to read, if not really to write, especially if you're used to it. They've talked about comming up with new writting system that makes more sense, like Korea, but realize the downsides of teaching an entire population a new character set and changing the education system far outweighs its benefits. But as a rule of thumb, you tend to see all the kyouiku kanji (kanji learned in elementry school) written out, and about half of the jyouyou kanji (learned in middle school and high school) used, usually depending on how annoying the kanji is to write, although you will notice that people have a tendancy to use the hiragana more for certain words. For more information, check out the wikipedia page on kanji: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji
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Shen, your answer is because many japanese people read in that way and yes kanji is quicker and easyer to read than putting all the ways to write it. so many japanese read like that.(im not an expert but i know this because i took japanese at my old school) im not taking it right now but i hope i will soon though.. but as i was saying... many read that way and they find it easyer..
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