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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 Word - Romaji (Nihongo no Kotoba) : Writing in Japanese Scripts - Hiragana / Katakana & Kanji
  • black : kuroi
    - Hiragana : くろい ;  Kanji : 黒い

  • blue : aoiro
    - Hiragana : あおいろ ;  Kanji : 青色

  • brown : chairo
    - Hiragana : ちゃいろい ;  Kanji : 茶色

  • green : midori
    - Hiragana : みどりいろ ;  Kanji : 緑色

  • grey : haiiro
    - Hiragana : はいいろ ;  Kanji : 灰色, 鼠色

  • orange : enshoku
    - Hiragana : えんしょく ;  Kanji : 炎色

  • pink : tankoushoku
    - Hiragana : たんこうしょく ;  Kanji : 淡紅色

  • purple : murasaki
    - Hiragana : むらさきいろ ;  Kanji : 紫

  • red : akai
    - Hiragana : あかい ;  Kanji : 赤い

  • silver : kiniro
    - Hiragana : ぎんいろ  ;  Kanji : 銀色

  • white : shiroi
    - Hiragana : しろい ;  Kanji : 白

  • yellow : kiiro
    - Hiragana : きいろ ;  Kanji : 黄色


BI (DAYS OF THE WEEK)

English Word (Eigo no Kotoba) : Japanese Word - Romaji (Nihongo no Kotoba) : Writing in Japanese Scripts - Hiragana / Katakana & Kanji
  • Monday : getsuyoubi, getsuyōbi
    - Hiragana : げつようび ;  Kanji : 月曜日

  • Tuesday : kayoubi, kayōbi
    - Hiragana : かようび ;  Kanji : 火曜日

  • Wednesday : suiyoubi, suiyōbi
    - Hiragana : すいようび ;  Kanji : 水曜日

  • Thursday : mokuyoubi, mokuyōbi
    - Hiragana : もくようび ;  Kanji : 木曜日

  • Friday : kinyoubi, kinyōbi
    - Hiragana : きんようび ;  Kanji : 金曜日

  • Saturday : doyoubi, doyōbi
    - Hiragana : どようび ;  Kanji : 土曜日

  • Sunday : nichiyoubi, nichiyōbi
    - Hiragana : にちようび ;  Kanji : 日曜日


TOSHI NO TSUKI (MONTHS OF THE YEAR)

English Word (Eigo no Kotoba) : Japanese Word - Romaji (Nihongo no Kotoba) : Writing in Japanese Scripts - Hiragana / Katakana & Kanji
  • January : ichigastu
    - Hiragana : いちがつ ;  Kanji : 一月

  • February : nigatsu
    - Hiragana : にがつ ;  Kanji : 二月

  • March : sangatsu
    - Hiragana : さんがつ ;  Kanji : 三月

  • April : shigatsu
    - Hiragana : しがつ ;  Kanji : 四月

  • May : gogatsu
    - Hiragana : ごがつ ;  Kanji : 五月

  • June : rokugatsu
    - Hiragana : ろくがつ ;  Kanji : 六月

  • July : shichigatsu
    - Hiragana : しちがつ ;  Kanji : 七月

  • August : hachigatsu
    - Hiragana : はちがつ ;  Kanji : 八月

  • September : kugatsu
    - Hiragana : くがつ ;  Kanji : 九月

  • October : juugatsu, jūgatsu
    - Hiragana : じゅうがつ ;  Kanji : 十月

  • November : juuichigatsu, jūichigatsu
    - Hiragana : じゅういちがつ ;  Kanji : 十一月

  • December : juunigatsu, jūinigatsu
    - Hiragana : じゅうにがつ ;  Kanji : 十二月



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