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Japanese: every Day A basic in Japanese Language Alphabet

Hiragana e Katakana Hiragana “A”, Katakana “A”

あア えエ

Hiragana “E”, Katakana “E”

Hiragana “i”, Katakana “i”

いイ

おオ

Hiragana “O”, Katakana “O”

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Hiragana “U”, Katana, “U”

う, 宇

Hiragana and Katakana “Ka”:

か, カ

Following our study of hiragana and katakana we have the syllable Ki:

Katakana

キ

as in キッチン kitchen that an also be

written as 台所

Hiragana

き

When we want to perform long vowels we can have different form to implement it such as

きい,キイ きー, キー In case of diphthongs we have the following:

Kya:

キャ, きゃ

Kya (long a)

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キャア,キャー Kyu

きゅ,キュ Kyuu (long u)

きゅう, きゅー キュウ, キュー Kyo

きょ, キョ Kyoo (long o)

きょう, きょお, きょー

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キョウ, キョオ, キョー The Ki is derived from Chinese hanzi 幾 that means how much? how ? and in pinyin it is read as ji. In Japanese we can find expressions like

幾ら - ikura that means how much?

Or

幾つ ikutsu that means how many or how

old (young baby)

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Translation In order to proceed with organic translation I have taken the following free ebook and step by step we shall translate together http://www.loyalbooks.com/download/text/Book-34084.txt

Title: 法螺男爵旅⼟産 - Horadanshaku tabimiyage - Boast

Baron Travel Souvenirs

法螺 - hora - boast 男爵 - danshaku - baron 旅 - tabi - travel, journey ⼟産 - miyage - souvenir, present or gift Author: 佐々⽊邦 (Sasaki Kuni) In the book we have some old kanji, not simplified one for example we have the following:

譯述 - やくじゅつ 譯 that is pronounced yaku, eki, or wake(kun) and toku is simplified as

訳

訳述 やくじゅつ that means translation

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