What is mostly used on signs in Tokyo: Katakana, Hiragana or Kanji?
网页2019年10月28日 — The road signs in most places in Japan have been standardised, such that any directional signs will typically have both Japanese (typically kanji with kana where appropriate) and English for place names. Most other signs will either have just a symbol or include a small amount of Japanese (e.g. 止まれ), possibly with English as well.
translation - What do the shapes ╳ mean in Japanese? And are …
网页2016年8月16日 — I don’t know if square and triangle have any specific implications as a sign like and X have, except the cases of the signs being often used for the index to be placed ahead of the bullet-type sentences, like: Fewer people are on welfare But the government didn't save money Most families in poverty don't receive welfare.
What exactly is this - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
网页2012年8月21日 — For this reason, it is usually not appropriate to replace ※ with an asterisk in texts translated from Japanese to English (and it is almost never appropriate to leave ※ intact in English texts). When they do link body text to footnotes, ※s are often used with Arabic numerals, such as ※1, ※2, etc.
numbers - How do people in Japan count with their fingers?
网页2015年8月17日 — Zero is actually an open hand, that is, all five fingers are extended. To count 1, fold in your thumb, and fold in fingers going toward the pinky to count further. To count six through ten, do it in reverse order- extending out the pinky is six, and so on. (This means that there are some ambiguities between 0-4 and 6-10, but since you are on ...
Ways to express prohibitions - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
网页1. 禁止 {きんし} can actually frequently be found on Japanese signs. 喫煙禁止 {きつえんきんし} - "No smoking" and 立入禁止 {たちいりきんし} - "Do not enter" are common examples. Due to the concise nature of this word (only two characters), it actually lends itself quite nicely to prohibition signs. A Google image ...
When should either 「」 and - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
网页28. In Japanese, the symbols 「」 are called [鉤括弧] {かぎかっこ} and the symbols 『』 are called [二重鉤括弧] {にじゅうかぎかっこ}. The basic rules for these symbols are simple: 「」 is used to denote quotation, and 『』 is used to denote quotation inside a 「」 …
Japanese quotation marks - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
网页3. I'm trying to understand the use of Japanese quotation marks, and I'm at a loss: in other languages, inverted commas shows (1) a direct quote («He said, "That's not enough"»), a non literal meaning («He is my "friend"» - whereas he isn't really a friend), or a meta usage (i.e. using the word for its signifier and not its meaning: «I ...
Tally Marks in Japanese? - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
网页2017年2月3日 — As a small remark, in case you are looking for the characters in your fonts... The five tally marks are not yet available in Unicode (of course similar characters can be used in lieu of them, though it is not the preferred way), but they are slated for the summer 2017, Unicode 10 release: latest proposal.
translation - How to say "weeaboo" in Japanese? - Japanese …
网页Otaku (おたく/オタク) is somewhat a synonym of weeaboo in English, but apparently not so in Japanese, where it means nerd/geek more broadly, not necessarily in manga/anime/video games. I wasn't able to find an entry on Jisho.org or relevant links besides two Reddit posts (link 1, link 2), which suggested the following: ウィアブー ...
How do you read simple arithmetic equations in Japanese?
网页The 九九 in Japanese is usually learnt with a very different reading, though. E.g. 3*3=9 is さざんがく. E.g. 3*3=9 is さざんがく. – Earthliŋ ♦