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[noraemon]

It is written "空文流手？".
The last character is not understood.
Such a character is not in ａ kanji.

Perhaps, I think that it is a Karate of the sect named "空文流：kumon or kuumon".
I am sorry for being not able to help you.

 

[m3nac3]

Some are slightly stylized (off strokes), so these are my best efforts at matching.

I couldn't see any meaning except for the first (空文） and last two (手工？？）
空 = Empty/sky
文 = Writing/word
(空文 ＝ Dead letter)
流 = Flow
手 = Hand
工 ？？
手工 = Handicraft, artisan/made by hand

10x a lot elizabeth and noraemon...
maybe the last character is not visible enough.... hmmmm.... the picture is a bit fuzzy and distorted...
any other opinion???

 

[noraemon]

10x a lot elizabeth and noraemon...
maybe the last character is not visible enough.... hmmmm.... the picture is a bit fuzzy and distorted...
any other opinion???

The Karate did not have a formal name until the Meiji era .
The name and the sect introduced oneself respectively.
However, the Kanji of "手：TE or tie" seems to have attached to the name.
I think that you may think martial arts that "手" is included in the name to be a Karate.

 

[Elizabeth]

10x a lot elizabeth and noraemon...
maybe the last character is not visible enough.... hmmmm.... the picture is a bit fuzzy and distorted...
any other opinion???

Did you friend pick out some characters at random ? What is it supposed to mean ?


Also, the last kanji could be an upside down 丁 (nail, exact) miscopied from a non-speaker.

 

[m3nac3]

he told me that it means his name... i dont understand, but he said that the first letters of the word are taken and put togetrher they forma a name... K A R L O... maybe the first letters of the word... dk... can you write down how it is pronounced in source... i soooo suspicious now...

 

[Elizabeth]

he told me that it means his name... i dont understand, but he said that the first letters of the word are taken and put togetrher they forma a name... K A R L O... maybe the first letters of the word... dk... can you write down how it is pronounced in source... i soooo suspicious now...

You have to forget L in Japanese. lol So believe it as 2/3 true and semi stylized. ;-).

空 + 手 = Karate. Personally I find noraemon-san's explanation the most authentic.
流 = School, sect


空 = Kara
文 = Aya (pronounciation for name)
流 = Ryuu
手 = ??
??

 

[jura]

Hi all!
I'm having a problem translating "Cry in the dojo, laught on the battlefield" into kanjiletters...
Only translation I found by google is on the stockkanji.com. Even if that one is correct, the pic is too small and blurry...
If someone can do this, thank u so much! And sorry for my bad english

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Hi all!
I'm having a problem translating "Cry in the dojo, laught on the battlefield" into kanji letters...
Only translation I found by google is on the stockkanji.com. Even if that one is correct, the pic is too small and blurry...
If someone can do this, thank u so much! And sorry for my bad eEglish

I am making these up from scratch, so they are not "standard Japanese". With that in mind, here are a couple of suggestions:
完備必勝
This might literally mean something like "With complete preparation comes certain victory".
修泣戦笑
This one is much more a direct translation of what you requested, although it seems a little strange to me for some reason.

It's a start at least. Good luck finding something you like!

 

[DEF]

Hi all,

I really would like to know what this means....can anyone tell me?

Sorry for the address in this bad format, but i don't have rights to write URLs here.

Best Regards and thanks in advance,

Guilherme

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

Hi all,
I really would like to know what this means....can anyone tell me?

Sorry for the address in this bad format, but i don't have rights to write URLs here.
Best Regards and thanks in advance,
Guilherme

Your picture is upside down, but it reads 必勝, which means "certain victory". Hope that helps!

 

[DEF]

Your picture is upside down, but it reads 必勝, which means "certain victory". Hope that helps!

Thanks a lot for your quick response.
Never thought it would be so quick.
This is better than paid service :emoji_grinning:

Thanks a lot, really!

 

[paryn]

Two Kanji Questions

Konbanwa minnasan

Two brief, somewhat related kanji questions. I was reading this blog written by someone discussing kanji radicals, their historical development, and a list of what he considers more practical kanji phrases, which if I recall was called jukogo. Randomly reading through it he makes a tangent about the kanji 乙 meaning "girl" or "second place" and then comments about how it is a bit embarrassing that it means those two things by today's political correctness climate. He also brings up 奥さん which he says means, "wife" but can also mean "back of the house person."

That actually made me wonder two things. Firstly, if he was correct about 乙 and how it actually meant girl and second place and if it was in common usage. I found 乙 in the kanji dictionary but it meant "Grade B" (which I suppose could mean second place), chic, smart, or fine. Nothing that would imply female. My first grade kanji studying reminded me that 女 is the kanji for woman.

My second question is, does kanji feature synonyms? I came across 太 as I began studying the second year kanji, which my book and the dictionary says to mean, "fat" but it looks rather similar to the first year kanji of 大 which also means "big."

Do those two kanji have subtle but different meanings, or would they be considered synonyms by English standards?

Arigatou gozaimasu na 読書 (my low level attempt at writing thank you for reading)

 

[Toritoribe]

I was reading this blog written by someone discussing kanji radicals, their historical development, and a list of what he considers more practical kanji phrases, which if I recall was called jukogo. Randomly reading through it he makes a tangent about the kanji 乙 meaning "girl" or "second place" and then comments about how it is a bit embarrassing that it means those two things by today's political correctness climate. He also brings up 奥さん which he says means, "wife" but can also mean "back of the house person."
That actually made me wonder two things. Firstly, if he was correct about 乙 and how it actually meant girl and second place and if it was in common usage. I found 乙 in the kanji dictionary but it meant "Grade B" (which I suppose could mean second place), chic, smart, or fine. Nothing that would imply female. My first grade kanji studying reminded me that 女 is the kanji for woman.

I think he probably referred to a compound 乙女[otome]; maiden/girl. If so, his comment is based on a wrong interpretation or luck of knowledge. おとめ is originally form "おと(young) + め(woman)", and the kanji 乙女 is just 当て字. There's no meaning such like "second place."

乙女 - Wiktionary

My second question is, does kanji feature synonyms? I came across 太 as I began studying the second year kanji, which my book and the dictionary says to mean, "fat" but it looks rather similar to the first year kanji of 大 which also means "big."
Do those two kanji have subtle but different meanings, or would they be considered synonyms by English standards?

Case by case. From a kanji dictionary 新字源, 太 is originally made from "大 + repetition mark," and originally means "more than big." (By the way, they can't be interchangeable in most cases.) On the other hand, although 犬[inu](dog) looks very similar to 大 as same as 太, the origin is a hieroglyph made from a shape of curl-tailed dog. There's no relation to 大.

 

[undrentide]

That actually made me wonder two things. Firstly, if he was correct about 乙 and how it actually meant girl and second place and if it was in common usage. I found 乙 in the kanji dictionary but it meant "Grade B" (which I suppose could mean second place), chic, smart, or fine. Nothing that would imply female. My first grade kanji studying reminded me that 女 is the kanji for woman.

乙 of 乙女 means "young".
乙女 means young female, girl.

My second question is, does kanji feature synonyms? I came across 太 as I began studying the second year kanji, which my book and the dictionary says to mean, "fat" but it looks rather similar to the first year kanji of 大 which also means "big."

They may look similar but their origins are quite different.
According to the kanji dictionary;

(1) 大
象形（=ideograph)
A person standing with his limbs spreading, to represent being big and having a lot of space around.

(2) 太
会意 (= a kanji that was coined by combining two different kanji and/or their meaning.)
太 = Simplified 泰＋二.
泰 = water + both hands, meaning "running a lot of water with both hands".

arigatou gozaimasu na 読書 (my low level attempt at writing thank you for reading)

読書 means reading books. It is different from "reading" in English and you cannot use it in this context, I'm afraid...

 

[paryn]

Hmm very interesting! I didn't know that there were compound kanjis that were used for their phonetic meaning and not for their intrinisic meaning to represent non-native words. This will be something I'll have to look out for when I peruse the more complicated kanji. Actually, just going through the dictionary at random now and again, I already am running into kanji with what appear to be two kanji rolled into one and or two kanji side by side which mean something else entirely than their respective parts.
Thank you for your quick answers too!
On a side note, I found the wikipedia article regarding inu (dog) to be rather amusing when it came down to the etymology paragraph. "The character is considered a rather abstract rendition – Confucius is quoted as saying 'The ancients must have had very strange looking dogs'"
Also, I find it funny that I got the reading verb wrong. There is so much to learn for me, and I only feel hungrier.

 

[Elizabeth]

乙 of 乙女 means "young".
乙女 means young female, girl.



They may look similar but their origins are quite different.
According to the kanji dictionary;

(1) 大
象形（=ideograph)
A person standing with his limbs spreading, to represent being big and having a lot of space around.


(2) 太
会意 (= a kanji that was coined by combining two different kanji and/or their meaning.)
太 = Simplified 泰＋二.

Ohhh, that's really interesting. I thought it was a simplification of 大＆二, before that
a doubling of 大 (piled on top of each other for emphasis).

犬 you can remember as a big dog with a spot.

 

[Toritoribe]

I thought it was a simplification of 大＆二

Yeah, 新字源 says so, too. As you know, there are a lot of hypotheses about origins of kanji.

 

[paryn]

Kanji in Mahjong

こんばんは minnasan!
Just a simple romaji question
I have a question for people who know the Japanese Mahjong rules and the names of various hands. I believe specifically, the riichi rules. There is this one hand called, 三槓子 which is to mean three 槓 I am guessing. I know enough to recognize that a 槓 is 4 of the same suit or honor tile. On two websites describing various hands and their equivalent romaji spelling, 三槓子 is spelled as san kan tsu or san kantsu, or some variant thus.
I understand that there are some on and kun readings for子, specifically on readings of シ and ス and a kun reading of こ. Also a ね according to another website. However, I can't seem to find one for "tsu" So, does 子 have a tsu reading?
I want to try to be as accurate as possible given my limited resources. Actually that makes me wonder a second question, since tsu and su sound somewhat similar, if you make a mistake in pronouncing either, would it be rather noticable to a native japanese listener? I remember a friend of mine telling me about their english learning experiences and not being able to differentiate phonetically the word ship and shi-t ... heh. So I don't want to run into the same problem that she had.
For example, pronouncing 月 as "katsu" or "kasu" or maybe, 土 as "suchi" as opposed to "tsuchi"
I remembered from another post you don't say arigatou gozaimashita in advance, so I'll say thank you very much in english ;D

 

[Toritoribe]

I have a question for people who know the Japanese Mahjong rules and the names of various hands. I believe specifically, the riichi rules. There is this one hand called, 三槓子 which is to mean three 槓 I am guessing. I know enough to recognize that a 槓 is 4 of the same suit or honor tile. On two websites describing various hands and their equivalent romaji spelling, 三槓子 is spelled as san kan tsu or san kantsu, or some variant thus.

I understand that there are some on and kun readings for子, specifically on readings of シ and ス and a kun reading of こ. Also a ね according to another website. However, I can't seem to find one for "tsu" So, does 子 have a tsu reading?

サンカンツ is from its Chinese pronunciation. So ツ is an exceptional reading for 子. That's quite same that 七 is never pronounced as チー except as Mahjong terms; 七対子[チートイツ] or like that.

Actually that makes me wonder a second question, since tsu and su sound somewhat similar, if you make a mistake in pronouncing either, would it be rather noticeable to a native Japanese listener? I remember a friend of mine telling me about their English learning experiences and not being able to differentiate phonetically the word ship and shi-t ... heh. So I don't want to run into the same problem that she had.
For example, pronouncing 月 as "katsu" or "kasu" or maybe, 土 as "suchi" as opposed to "tsuchi"

For instance, 二月[nigatsu] vs 逃がす[nigasu], 津市[tsushi] vs 寿司[sushi] would obviously sound differently.

I remembered from another post you don't say arigatou gozaimashita in advance, so I'll say thank you very much in english :emoji_wink:

So, one more tips.: We don't say みんなさん[minnasan]. It should be みんな[minna](casual) or みなさん[minasan](polite/formal) .

 

[paryn]

サンカンツ is from its Chinese pronunciation. So ツ is an exceptional reading for 子. That's quite same that 七 is never pronounced as チー except as Mahjong terms; 七対子[チートイツ] or like that.
For instance, 二月[nigatsu] vs 逃がす[nigasu], 津市[tsushi] vs 寿司[sushi] would obviously sound differently.
So, one more tips. We don't say みんなさん[minnasan]. It should be みんな[minna](casual) or みなさん[minasan](polite/formal).

Mm interesting. I'll have to keep that in mind when I read more about mahjong and come across kanji terms and their romaji spellings. So far, I'm trying to get a handle on what are considered to be valid hands. For example, tan-yao, thirteen orphans, and pinfu. I'm not proficient enough to memorize their kanji names thus far. Just what they mean. 七対子 is when you take the most recent discard, if it happens on the 左 side?
すみません. みなさん. ありがとうございます

一問 ください . I suspect that 高学校 and 高学 both just mean high school, and are thus interchangeable? The first one, I believe, is pronounced koutou gakkou and the latter is pronounced koukou. I came across 高 in my kanji learning and found it had two readings, kou and taka. So I guess, I would have assumed the first one to be pronounced as kou gaku kou. But, it looks as if it was contracted to just koutou gakkou. Not sure where the tou came from. 学 I read had a pronunciation of gaku, so I was going to assume kou gaku. But, it's koukou.

Is there a contraction here, somewhat similar to the English word of "can't for can not"? Or do compounded kanji sometimes do not sound like their individual kanji components?
In other words, I would be better off trying to learn the pronunciation of compounded kanji and not components and trying to put them together myself

 

[Toritoribe]

七対子 is when you take the most recent discard, if it happens on the 左 side?

Do you use the verb "take" as 鳴く[naku]?

一問 ください

One more question
もうひとつ教[おし]えてください

I suspect that 高学校 and 高学 both just mean high school, and are thus interchangeable? The first one, I believe, is pronounced koutou gakkou and the latter is pronounced koukou. I came across 高 in my kanji learning and found it had two readings, kou and taka. So I guess, I would have assumed the first one to be pronounced as kou gaku kou. But, it looks as if it was contracted to just koutou gakkou. Not sure where the tou came from. 学 I read had a pronunciation of gaku, so I was going to assume kou gaku. But, it's koukou.

I don't know where you saw that two words, but the kanji aren't correct. It should be 高等学校[koutou gakkou] and 高校[koukou]. So, now your problem has been solved, hasn't it?;-)

Is there a contraction here, somewhat similar to the english word of "can't for can not"? Or do compounded kanji sometimes do not sound like their individual kanji components?
In other words, I would be better off trying to learn the pronunciation of compounded kanji and not components and trying to put them together myself

Aside 高学校/高学, euphonic changes occur in Japanese word, not only kanji compounds.
e.g.
作家[さっか](not さくか)

 

[paryn]

Do you use the verb "take" as 鳴く[naku]?
One more question
もうひとつ教[おし]えてください
I don't know where you saw that two words, but the kanji aren't correct. It should be 高等学校[koutou gakkou] and 高校[koukou]. So, now your problem has been solved, hasn't it?;-)
Aside 高学校/高学, euphonic changes occur in Japanese word, not only kanji compounds.
e.g.
作家[さっか](not さくか)

Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. 鳴く is to make a bark, or purr?


I shall remember もうひとつ and 教えて. Very useful. Also, I will have to remember that 作家 is pronounced さっか and keep in mind that there might be euphonic changes in the things I read

どうもありがとう, toritoribesan!

 

[Toritoribe]

Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. 鳴く is to make a bark, or purr?

鳴く means "to call チー/ポン/カン(chow/pung/kong)".

The following wiki article (mainly regarding euphonic changes in conjugations of verbs/adjectives) might be somewhat helpful.

Japanese grammar - Wikipedia

 

[paryn]

Wakarimashita. Oshiete moratte arigatou gozaimasu toritoribesan!

 

[Mimos]

Hello all, I've had this calligraphy since I was about 10 or so. I went with my mom to the Asian Culture Festival in Phoenix one year and there was a booth set up where you could have your name done in calligraphy. I was about 11 when I came to the realization that it wasn't a translation of my name but something else when we had a guest speaker at elementary school who was fluent in Chinese and Japanese who asked us if anyone knew any kanji. I raised my hand and drew the middle kanji on some paper, to which she exclaimed "Good! That means 'one-hundred'." Since then, I've wondered exactly what it says. For all I know it could say "I want your little gaijin brat to have 100 lashings", whatever it says, I like it and am curious.

Anyway, if you could help me out with a translation, that would be sublime. :