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Kanji iteration mark. For example, 様様 could be written 様々. From 仝 (below). 仝: 2138: 1-1-24: 4EDD: dō no jiten (同の字点) Kanji repetition mark ヽ: 2152: 1-1-19: 30FD katakanagaeshi (かたかながえし) kurikaeshi (くりかえし) Katakana iteration mark: ヾ: 2153: 1-1-20: 30FE Katakana iteration mark with a dakuten ...
Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides characters and numbers), which differ from those found in European languages, as well as some not used in formal Japanese writing but frequently found in more casual writing, such as exclamation and question marks.
Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...
However, an equals sign, a number 8, a capital letter B or a capital letter X are also used to indicate normal eyes, widened eyes, those with glasses or those with crinkled eyes, respectively. Symbols for the mouth vary, e.g. ")" for a smiley face or "(" for a sad face. One can also add a "}" after the mouth character to indicate a beard.
Japanese name Romaji English Meaning Image アマリリス: Amaririsu: Amaryllis: Shy Amaryllis belladonna: アネモネ: Anemone: Anemone (white) : Sincere Anemone narcissifolia
The sound-symbolic words of Japanese can be classified into four main categories: [4] [5] Animate phonomime (擬声語, giseigo) words that mimic sounds made by living things, like a dog's bark (wan-wan).
Yūrei from the Hyakkai Zukan, c. 1737. Yūrei are figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western concept of ghosts.The name consists of two kanji, 幽 (yū), meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 (rei), meaning "soul" or "spirit".
Although the kanji characters for "rust" are not the same as sabi (寂) in wabi-sabi, the original spoken word (pre-kanji, yamato-kotoba) are believed to be one and the same. [12] [13] Modern tea vessel made in the wabi-sabi style. Wabi and sabi both suggest sentiments of desolation and solitude.