Japanese Word Thread

Website · Post by **gameboyguy13** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:56 pm

I still think Unicode ideographs would help this thread out.

How about ? (hana) - flower?

Post by **Shirou** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:26 pm

gameboyguy13 wrote: I still think Unicode ideographs would help this thread out.

How about ? (hana) - flower?

Hm... I see "?".

Website · Post by **gameboyguy13** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:30 pm

Shirou wrote:Hm... I see "?".

You see "èŠ±"?

Have you tried setting encoding to UTF-8? That should help.
Alternatively, auto-detecting settings might work.

EDIT: On re-looking at this post, I realized that what I posted in this post looks entirely different on Western (ISO 8859-1) (involving several capital A's with rings and stuff)... so what I guess you meant you see e-grave S-caron plusminus instead of an ideograph?

Post by **Shirou** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:54 am

Yeah, that's what I meant.
I messed around with the encoding and got very different results for each Japanese character. So, I changed it to UTF-8, then activated auto-detect for Japanese.
Question though. When you asked about what I saw, (in quotes), is that supposed to be e-grave, S-caron, plusminus or the symbol of hana? It shows up as the first, but the others show up fine. Just checking.

Website · Post by **gameboyguy13** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:11 am

Shirou wrote:Question though. When you asked about what I saw, (in quotes), is that supposed to be e-grave, S-caron, plusminus or the symbol of hana? It shows up as the first, but the others show up fine. Just checking.

Yes. I was trying to ask whether you saw the actual character or the three symbols that it appears under Western encoding. Apparently it didn't work. Oh well.

Post by **Shirou** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:22 am

Well, I can see what you originally posted.

Post by **BionicleMandi121** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:47 pm

Hm...

Untenmenkyo = driver's liscence (can't spell...)
Kisoku = rule/regulation
Unten (wo) shimasu = to drive
ki (wo) tsukemasu = to be careful

Can't think of any other new vocab we just learned. xD I have to study more.

Post by **Stevenson** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:01 am

Does anyone know how to say 'the chicken devil' in japanese?

Post by **Josiah** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:21 pm

Well, you can use 'oni' for devil (it means monster/ogre/demon/etc). I'd look up the word for chicken but I don't have time right now.

Post by **UchihaXBlad3** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:14 pm

here i'll put it in for u josiah to save u the trouble of next time. it's "tori" which is bird/chicken/ bascially any bird.

Post by **AAASHWIN** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:31 pm

You could also use the katakana "chiken," but i think that's used mainly for the food product...

Post by **Josiah** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:23 pm

Well yeah, tori works although that's just bird in general. The actual way to say chicken is niwatori (if you're talking about live chickens) or keiniku (if you're talking about chicken meat).

Post by **AAASHWIN** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:54 pm

kokode kono bakajin wa nani suruno?

Probably an awkward way to say it, but it means: What is this idiot doing here?
My friend used it the other day, and I thought it was pretty funny. It also had some vocab that I thought would be good for this post:

koko--here
kono--this
bakajin--idiot
nani--what
suru--do

Post by **Stevenson** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:27 am

Okay, so...anyone know the word for 'the'?
And just so I can feel like I contributed

Giri=slash. I think.

Post by **Josiah** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:25 pm

There is no word for the in Japanese simply because it's not needed. Japanese grammer and sentence structure is completely different than that of english.