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Colours, Days & Months : English - Japanese Hiragana Translation Game
(Iro, Yōbi To Tsuki : Eigo - Nihongo Hiragana Hon'yaku Gēmu)

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Usage of Japanese Scripts
  • There are 3 Japanese scripts : Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji. Most of the Japanese sentences are written in Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji, all three.
  • Hiragana is used for the endings of verbs and for grammatical particles.
  • Katakana is used for transcription of words borrowed from foreign languages (except Chinese), like country names, personal names, etc.
  • Both Hiragana and Katakana letters are phonetic representations of sound, representing exactly the same set of sounds.
  • Kanji, which is a set of Chinese characters called sinograms, is used for the nouns and the radicals of verbs.
  • The Hiragana script has a Kanji equivalent (excepts the endings of verbs and the particles).
  • The Katakana script does not have a Kanji equivalent.
  • Whereas Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic representations of sound, Kanji conveys sounds as well as meanings.
  • A sentence in Japanese can be written in Hiragana and Katakana only (without Kanji).
  • Romaji (Roman letters) is simply the transliteration of Japanese in the Latin script. It is sometimes used for the convenience of foreigners, mostly on sign-boards and at stations.
  • The Romaji vowelsā, ī, ū, ē signify emphasis, and hence are also written asaa, ii, uu et ee. ex. īe = iie
  • The vowel ō becomes ou and not oo ex. gakkō = gakkou
  • In Katakana, the emphasis on the vowel signifies a long sound written as . ex. nōto (notebook), will be written in katakana as : ノ

Example. The sentence 'The department store is closed on Mondays' is written in :

Japanese Romaji : Depāto wa getsuyōbi ni yasumi desu ;

Japanese traditional (Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji) : デパート月曜日休みです。; where
Kanji = 月曜日 (getsuyōbi = Monday),休み (yasumi = holiday) ; Katakana = デパート(depāto = department store) and the rest is Hiragana.

Japanese Hiragana and Katakana (without Kanji) : デパートげつようびやすみです。
Note - The Kanjis in the sentence written in Japanese traditional, 月曜日 and 休み are replaced by their hiragana equivalents げつようび (getsuyōbi) andやすみ(yasumi) respectively.

Note :
(ha) is read (wa) only when it is used as the particle attached to the noun or the subject of a sentence.
In other words, one writes not for the particle wa.
(wa) is always used after the subject.
In the example above, (wa) comes after the subject depāto デパート (department store) .

Kanji is sometimes written in combination with Hiragana.
In the above example yasumi (holiday) is written in Kanji as 休み and in Hiragana as やすみ. Note the み (mi) in Kanji.

Romaji Vocabulary   Hiragana Vocabulary  Katakana Vocabulary   Kanji Vocabulary

Hiragana Alphabets  Katakana Alphabets  Kanji Characters Tables




IRO (COLOURS)

English Word (Eigo no Kotoba) : Japanese Hiragana word (Nihongo Hiragana no Kotoba) : Romaji & Kanji Scripts
  • black : くろい
    - Romaji : kuroi
    Kanji : 黒い

  • blue : あおいろ
    - Romaji : aoiro
    Kanji : 青色

  • brown : ちゃいろい
    - Romaji : chairo
    Kanji : 茶色

  • green : みどりいろ
    - Romaji : midoriiro
    Kanji : 緑色

  • grey : はいいろ, ねずみいろ
    - Romaji : haiiro, nezumiiro
    Kanji : 灰色, 鼠色

  • orange : えんしょく
    - Romaji : enshoku
    Kanji : 炎色

  • pink : たんこうしょく
    - Romaji : tankōshoku
    Kanji : 淡紅色

  • purple : むらさきいろ 
    - Romaji : murasaki
    Kanji :

  • red : あかい
    - Romaji : akai
    Kanji : 赤い

  • silver : ぎんいろ 
    - Romaji : kiniro
    Kanji : 銀色

  • white : しろい
    - Romaji : shiroi
    Kanji :

  • yellow : きいろ
    - Romaji : kiiro
    Kanji : 黄色


BI (DAYS OF THE WEEK)

English Word (Eigo no Kotoba) : Japanese Hiragana word (Nihongo Hiragana no Kotoba) : Romaji & Kanji Scripts
  • Monday : げつようび
    - Romaji : getsuyōbi
    Kanji : 月曜日

  • Tuesday : かよう
    - Romaji : hayōbi
    Kanji : 火曜日

  • Wednesday : すいようび
    - Romaji : suiyōbi
    Kanji : 水曜日

  • Thursday : もくようび
    - Romaji : mokuyōbi
    Kanji : 木曜日

  • Friday : きんようび
    - Romaji : kinyōbi
    Kanji : 金曜日

  • Saturday : どようび
    - Romaji : doyōbi
    Kanji : 土曜日

  • Sunday : にちようび
    - Romaji : nichiyōbi
    Kanji : 日曜日


TOSHI NO TSUKI (MONTHS OF THE YEAR)

English Word (Eigo no Kotoba) : Japanese Hiragana word (Nihongo Hiragana no Kotoba) : Romaji & Kanji Scripts
  • January : いちがつ
    - Romaji : ichigastu
    Kanji : 一月

  • February : にがつ
    - Romaji : nigatsu
    Kanji : 二月

  • March : さんがつ
    - Romaji : sangatsu
    Kanji : 三月

  • April : しがつ
    - Romaji : shigatsu
    Kanji : 四月

  • May : ごがつ
    - Romaji : gogatsu
    Kanji : 五月

  • June : ろくがつ
    - Romaji : rokugatsu
    Kanji : 六月

  • July : しちがつ
    - Romaji : shichigatsu
    Kanji : 七月

  • August : はちがつ
    - Romaji : hachigatsu
    Kanji : 八月

  • September : くがつ
    - Romaji : kugatsu
    Kanji : 九月

  • October : じゅうがつ
    - Romaji : jūgatsu
    Kanji : 十月

  • November : じゅういちがつ
    - Romaji : jūichigatsu
    Kanji : 十一月

  • December : じゅうにがつ
    - Romaji : jūinigatsu
    Kanji : 十二月



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