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Do we need to learn N4 and N3 kanji for JPLT N5? Most of recommended verbs using more advanced kanji than N5 ones
Have you tried sample questions on the official site to get a sense of what the vocabulary is like? (Warning: the test applet plays very loud correct/incorrect sounds when you choose an answer!) From ...
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Criteria for reading 物{もつ} or 物{ぶつ}
I’m sorry for this late answer, but even if it’s too late, I’m still hoping to help others who ask the same question.
Generally, when a kanji has more than one reading, there is a trick to knowing ...
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Where does the な in 大人 (otona) come from?
おとな is a Japanese word meaning big person...adult. When kanji came to Japan they took the characters 大 人 to represent their native word.
乙名 is a buddhist term..ie a Chinese loan word assigned a close ...
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What is the best interpretation of "釣込" ("tsurikomi")?
A relevant bit of grammar is the verb stem or continuous form. This happens to be the polite form of a verb but with the -ます stripped off; for most (i.e., godan) verbs, the conjugation changes the ...
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What does 亜字形図象 mean?
In standard usage, 象 and 像 are distinct kanji with different meanings. In particular, they are rarely confused in the following contexts:
象 (ぞう; elephant): 象牙 (ivory)
像 (ぞう; statue): 銅像 (bronze ...
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What does 亜字形図象 mean?
Not positive, but I think it's (((亜字形)図)象): that is 亜字形, plus the suffix ～図, plus another suffix ～象 (that I would say is read as ～[象]{しょう} - "phenomenon").
亜字形図象 - "The 亜-shaped icon/...
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Given harakiri was once pronounced farakiri and, even earlier, parakiri, how do I write those two older forms, using kanjis?
If you asked this question knowing almost nothing about the Japanese writing system, you should read a bit about it first. 腹切り is a perfectly valid Japanese word, but it's written using a type of ...
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Pronouncing kanji numbers
In this context, 一四二 obviously means one-hundred-and-forty-two, so it's read ひゃくよんじゅうに. You can read it as いちよんに when it's a room number, zip code, etc. The kan-sūji style is much more preferred in ...
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