LangJa Flashcards
(76 cards)
what are the three types of Japanese scripts?
Hirigana
Katakana
Kanji
what is hiragana?
the words of jap origin
what is katakana
the words for foreign origin
what is kanji
chinese pictorgrams and ideograms
how did Japanese script start?
japanese had a language but no scripts- so when traveling increased trade happened- from CHINA and KOREA a lot of pictograms crossed over
t/f women were allowed to use kanji or pictorgram
false
what is the difference between katakana and hiragana with writing styles?
Hiragana is very cursive round and circular
examples
what is 日
the sun it is what you draw- what does the sun do? It divides day and night so you divide it- if you want to show it in lines you would draw a square and divide with line in middle- so when you look at this character the first picture that comes is the sun below- so you will think with light brightness- this is how pictograms and ideograms have come into play
how many symbols are in hiragana and katakana
46 symbols each
what matters when writing in jap
stroke order- how the character is to be made and what is to be drawn first
in hiragana what are the exceptions in the chart in pronunciation ?
Si Ci Tu
instead it should be Shi Chi Tsu
what do all constant end with only with one exception?
they all end a vowel except for n
ん
N HIRAGANA
わ
wa HIRAGANA
ゐ
Wi HIRAGANA
ゑ
we HIRAGANA
を
wo hiragana
ら
ra HIRAGANA
り
ri HIRAGANA
る
ru HIRAGANA
れ
RE HIRAGANA
ろ
RO HIRAGANA
や
YA HIRAGANA
ゆ
YU HIRAGANA
