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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.
Mitsuko Coudenhove (クーデンホーフ 光子 Kūdenhōfu Mitsuko), the mother of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi Hamuro Mitsuko ( 葉室 光子 , 1853–1873) , Japanese concubine Mitsuko Horie (堀江 美都子 Horie Mitsuko , born 1957), a Japanese singer and voice actress
Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...
The Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (日本国語大辞典), also known as the Nikkoku (日国) and in English as Shogakukan's Unabridged Dictionary of the Japanese Language, is the largest Japanese language dictionary published. [1] In the period from 1972 to 1976, Shogakukan published the 20-volume first edition.
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.
dictionary of modern Japanese history from 1848 to 1975, 12,000 entries Nihon Kokugo Daijiten: 1972–1976, 2000–2002: largest Japanese language dictionary, 20-volume and 14-volume editions, 503,000 entries Nihongo Daijiten: 1989, 1995: Tadao Umesao's popular color-illustrated Japanese dictionary, 2 editions Nippo Jisho: 1603
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.