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A sentence ending in an exclamation mark is either an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), a command ("Stop!"), or is intended to be astonishing in some way ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"). While there is no exclamation point in formal Japanese, it is very commonly used, especially in casual writing, fiction and manga.
In the Japanese language, aizuchi (Japanese: 相槌 or あいづち, IPA:) are interjections during a conversation that indicate the listener is paying attention or understands the speaker (backchanneling). In linguistic terms, these are a form of phatic expression. Aizuchi are considered reassuring to the speaker, indicating that the listener ...
In modern Japanese orthography, ぢ (di) is only used in compound words where rendaku causes ち (chi) to become voiced, as in はなぢ (鼻血 hanaji "nosebleed"), and where it immediately follows a ち, as in ちぢむ (縮む chijimu "shrink"). Its use in rendaku is retained in order to avoid confusion about the origin of the compound.
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 ...
See also Japanese addressing system and Japan Post. 〶 3036: Variant postal mark in a circle 〠 1-6-70: 3020: Variant postal mark with a face 〄 3004 (jis mark (ジスマーク, "JIS mark") nihon kougyou kikaku (日本工業規格, "Japanese Industrial Standards", "JIS") This mark on a product shows that it complies with the Japanese ...
Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...
The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography.It was developed c. 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō. [2] [citation needed] Jesuit priests used the system in a series of printed Catholic books so that missionaries could preach and teach their converts without learning to read Japanese orthography.
猫 neko cat の no GEN 色 iro color 猫 の 色 neko no iro cat GEN color "the cat's (neko no) color (iro)" noun governed by an adposition: 日本 nihon Japan に ni in 日本 に nihon ni Japan in " in Japan" comparison: Y Y Y より yori than 大きい ookii big Y より 大きい Y yori ookii Y than big " big ger than Y" noun modified by an adjective: 黒い kuroi black 猫 neko cat ...