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The University of Hawai'i's Center for Labor Education and Research resorts the statute of the Spirit of Aloha which breaks down the concept into an acronym using each of the letters of the word: "'Akahai,' meaning kindness, to be expressed with tenderness; 'Lōkahi,' meaning unity, to be expressed with harmony; 'ʻOluʻolu,' meaning agreeable ...
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
Aloha: Hello, goodbye, and love; outside of Hawaiʻi, only the first two meanings are used. Link: ʻAwa: A Polynesian shrub, Piper methysticum, of the pepper family, the aromatic roots of which are used to make an intoxicating beverage. Link: Haole: Foreigner or outsider. Usually directed towards Caucasians or people from the mainland.
Nihon-shiki (Japanese: 日本式ローマ字, lit. 'Japan-style', romanized as Nihonsiki in the system itself) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Among the major romanization systems for Japanese, it is the most regular one and has an almost one-to-one relation to the kana writing system.
The following description of Hawaiian phonemes and their allophones is based on the experiences of the people who developed the Hawaiian alphabet, as described by Schütz, [2] and on the descriptions of Hawaiian pronunciation and phonology made by Lyovin, [3] and Elbert & Pukui. [4] [5] Some additional details on glottal consonants are found in ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be a vowel such as /a/ (hiragana あ ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as /ka/ ( か ); or /N/ ( ん ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context and dialect, sounds either like English m , n or ng ...
HIRAGANA LETTER GE KATAKANA LETTER GE HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE [10] KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE [10] CIRCLED KATAKANA KE Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12370: U+3052: 12466: U+30B2: 12369 12442: U+3051+309A: 12465 12442: U+30B1+309A: 13016: U+32D8 UTF-8: 227 129 146: E3 81 92: 227 130 178: E3 82 B2: 227 129 ...