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Aki Aleong (born 1934), American actor, singer and songwriter; Akihiro Ienaga (家長 昭博, born 1986), Japanese football player commonly referred to as "Aki"; Akinori Iwamura (岩村 明憲, born 1979), Japanese baseball player and manager referred to as "Aki" while playing in Major League Baseball
The following is a list of notable print, electronic, and online Japanese dictionaries. This is a sortable table : clicking the arrows in the header cells will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column, in ascending order first, and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order.
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.
Another early English character dictionary is 六千字典 = 6000 Chinese Characters with Japanese Pronunciation and Japanese and English Renderings by J. Ira Jones and H.V.S. Peeke published in 1915 in Tokyo. [6] The fourth edition of this work appeared in 1936. [7] There are currently four major Kan–Ei dictionaries.
Entries are listed by kana, in the gojūon (五十音) order (the native alphabetical order of the Japanese syllabary). They provide the most common kanji used to write the word, the part of the speech, the various definitions, some early examples of the use of the word, and notes on the pronunciation.
The kanji characters 晶 ("sparkle"), 明 ("bright"), and 秋 ("autumn") are three variations of ways to write "aki", and the character 子 is a common suffix in female given names in Japan. In Japanese the character 子 ( "ko" ) means "child".
Japanese does not have separate l and r sounds, and l-is normally transcribed using the kana that are perceived as representing r-. [2] For example, London becomes ロンドン (Ro-n-do-n). Other sounds not present in Japanese may be converted to the nearest Japanese equivalent; for example, the name Smith is written スミス (Su-mi-su).
Rendaku (連濁, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' sequential voicing ') is a phenomenon affecting the pronunciation of compound words in Japanese.When rendaku occurs, a voiceless consonant (such as /t k s h/) is replaced with a voiced consonant (such as /d ɡ z b/) at the start of the second (or later) part of the compound.