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A man playing the shakuhachi flute, named after its traditional length of 1 shaku and 8 sun (54.5 cm) The base unit of Japanese length is the shaku based upon the Chinese chi, with other units derived from it and changing over time based on its dimensions.
Japanese also makes extensive use of adopted Chinese characters, or kanji, which may be pronounced with one or more syllables. Therefore, when a word or phrase is abbreviated, it does not take the form of initials, but the key characters of the original phrase, such that a new word is made, often recognizably derived from the original.
The Japanese numerals are numerals that are used in Japanese. In writing, they are the same as the Chinese numerals, and large numbers follow the Chinese style of grouping by 10,000. Two pronunciations are used: the Sino-Japanese (on'yomi) readings of the Chinese characters and the Japanese yamato kotoba (native words, kun'yomi readings).
The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed ( 勺 , 銑 , 脹 , 錘 , 匁 ).
1931: The former jōyō kanji list was revised and 1,858 characters were specified. 1942: 1,134 characters as standard jōyō kanji and 1,320 characters as sub-jōyō kanji were specified. 1946: The 1,850 characters of tōyō kanji were adopted by law "as those most essential for common use and everyday communication". [1]
However, the number of characters in Japanese is many more than 256 and thus cannot be encoded using a single byte - Japanese is thus encoded using two or more bytes, in a so-called "double byte" or "multi-byte" encoding. Problems that arise relate to transliteration and romanization, character encoding, and input of Japanese text.
Shaku (Japanese: 尺) or Japanese foot [1] [2] is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger [3] [a] (compare span). Traditionally, the length varied by location or use, but it is now standardized as 10/ ...
Character information Preview ま マ ﾏ ㋮ Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER MA KATAKANA LETTER MA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MA CIRCLED KATAKANA MA Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12414: U+307E: 12510: U+30DE: 65423: U+FF8F: 13038: U+32EE UTF-8: 227 129 190: E3 81 BE: 227 131 158: E3 83 9E: 239 190 143: EF BE 8F: 227 139 ...