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Move the buckle. It's obscuring one kanji character.
It's read from top to bottom, but you have it laying on its side. The left character should be positioned on top. One has to turn one's head to the left now in order to read it. 第 is read as "dai".
三 is 3
０ is zero
一 is 1
The 3013th...
Second to last character 參 has several meanings: coming, going, three, visiting...
Last character 號 is pronounced "go" and has several meanings: make, model, number, part of that group...
Kind of late, so I can't spend much more time on it. My Japanese wife is unable to read it and even asked if it was Japanese! Maybe because it's an older form...?
It's read from top to bottom, but you have it laying on its side. The left character should be positioned on top. One has to turn one's head to the left now in order to read it. 第 is read as "dai".
三 is 3
０ is zero
一 is 1
The 3013th...
Second to last character 參 has several meanings: coming, going, three, visiting...
Last character 號 is pronounced "go" and has several meanings: make, model, number, part of that group...
Kind of late, so I can't spend much more time on it. My Japanese wife is unable to read it and even asked if it was Japanese! Maybe because it's an older form...?
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Probably the first half would be the name of a troop or something like that and the second half means "number three" or "third edition", but the information is too little to judge.
rossvgrant
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- 19 Apr 2012
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Hi there,
I'm new to learning Japanese, and right now, my teacher is a youtube joke.
Namasensei :
bumnumba1 - YouTube
Anyway, I am actually getting my kana down pretty fast and it's not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. The hard part, little did I know, is kanji. I'm mostly learning because I am a video game collector and like to play the Super Famicom(スーパーファミコン), but regardless, I am playing Final Fantasy(ファイナルファンタジ) and the same characters keep coming up over and over again. I'd like to look them up myself, but I don't even know where to start.
Here's the Kanji I cannot translate :
Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone
If some kind soul out there is willing, could you give me a break down of the Kanji used above?
どうもありがと!
I'm new to learning Japanese, and right now, my teacher is a youtube joke.
Namasensei :
bumnumba1 - YouTube
Anyway, I am actually getting my kana down pretty fast and it's not nearly as hard as I thought it would be. The hard part, little did I know, is kanji. I'm mostly learning because I am a video game collector and like to play the Super Famicom(スーパーファミコン), but regardless, I am playing Final Fantasy(ファイナルファンタジ) and the same characters keep coming up over and over again. I'd like to look them up myself, but I don't even know where to start.
Here's the Kanji I cannot translate :
Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone
If some kind soul out there is willing, could you give me a break down of the Kanji used above?
どうもありがと!
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Use handwriting recognition input method on IME pad.
IME handwriting recognition - IME Pad and boxed input
IME handwriting recognition - IME Pad and boxed input
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Business Kanji translation please
Hi,
Could someone please tell me what this business kanji means? It was on a document I received from a company and I'm not able to work it out. I think it might have something to do with 'cost price' 'percentage' or 'gross profit margin'.
All help is appreciated. Thank you for your time!
Hi,
Could someone please tell me what this business kanji means? It was on a document I received from a company and I'm not able to work it out. I think it might have something to do with 'cost price' 'percentage' or 'gross profit margin'.
All help is appreciated. Thank you for your time!
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Maru Cheese
Cheese Lover
- 30 Apr 2012
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Left side: 付加 (fuka) means "addition"
Right side: 材料費 (zairyouhi) means "cost of materials"
THANK YOU!!! That's awesome. Makes it a lot easier to figure out this document now. I really appreciate your help!!
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Please don't forget to breathe.
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I would appreciate any help with this one! I cannot find any drawing programs that come up with anything close, and I don't know where to begin with what's written in the bottom left corner.
If a higher quality / zoomed-in scan is required for the writing, please let me know and I will post another image.
Thank you!!!
If a higher quality / zoomed-in scan is required for the writing, please let me know and I will post another image.
Thank you!!!
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Do you mean the seal by the bottom left corner? If so, it's 弥卑.
Thanks for replying! I'm interested in understanding anything in the two pics of this t-shirt I found - mainly, a translation of the big main character would be the most helpful! I don't know whether that's Kanji or not, but was hoping people could help me out anyways.. =)
I'm curious if the shirt/characters have any significance to zen/Buddhism, but know nothing about the characters. The shirt was a self-made silkscreen someone donated to a second-hand store.
I tried entering the characters you helped me with (弥卑?) on Jisho.org, and it comes out to ..."increasingly vulgar"?
Kanji details for 弥卑 - Denshi Jisho
I can't read or speak Japanese, and I'm not sure I'm using these translators properly... if you or anyone could give me direct English translations of anything in the pics, I would really appreciate it!
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一番
ichiban
number one
人間、努力と頑張りの
おおいなる大成功である
Ningen, doryoku to ganbari no
ooinaru daiseikou de aru.
People need a great success of their effort and hard work.
or
People are the result of a great success of their effort and hard work.
These are nothing to do with zen.
弥卑 is the name of the artist, most probably a pseudonym.
ichiban
number one
人間、努力と頑張りの
おおいなる大成功である
Ningen, doryoku to ganbari no
ooinaru daiseikou de aru.
People need a great success of their effort and hard work.
or
People are the result of a great success of their effort and hard work.
These are nothing to do with zen.
弥卑 is the name of the artist, most probably a pseudonym.
Very nice to know, thank you!
Kendo Nick
後輩
- 23 Mar 2011
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Greetings! I'm not sure I post these questions in the appropriate subforum or if they already have been answered in the past, but then please bear with me. The thing is that I've encountered the word "zendoka", albeit only in martial arts contexts. My questions:
Is it correct to translate "zendoka" as "spirit on the path of meditation"?
Is "zendoka" solely used in martial arts contexts or can it e.g. be used to denota a Zen Buddhist?
How would you write this in Kanji?
Thanks in advance.
Is it correct to translate "zendoka" as "spirit on the path of meditation"?
Is "zendoka" solely used in martial arts contexts or can it e.g. be used to denota a Zen Buddhist?
How would you write this in Kanji?
Thanks in advance.
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In what context or sentence is the word used specifically?
Kendo Nick
後輩
- 23 Mar 2011
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To be honest, I've only found this word in names of martial arts clubs, and I know too little of martial arts to know how serious these clubs are. Since I don't know how it's written in Japanese, I haven't been able to find any Japanese examples, only English examples. A random sample from the net:
The general perception that a Black Belt is the highest level in martial arts is a misconception. While it is the end of the colored belts, Black Belt is a new beginning. A journey towards the understanding of the Zen Do Ka and yourself. A True Zendoka never ceases their exploration of Martial Arts and will continue to discover more in the Dan Grades, contributing to the art of Zen Do Ka with skills they have personally developed or adapted from elsewhere.
Zen Do Ka. The Japanese word Zen means "meditation" Do means path, Ka is the spirit on the path. A Zendoka is a spirit on the path of enlightenment. Many travel, some finish. The question is "does such destination exist, or is the path the destination?"
To put it blunly, is "zendoka" a proper Japanese word or it just some bullshit word which Western martial arts practitioners have invented? If it's a proper word, is it a word a Japanese native speaker would use?
The general perception that a Black Belt is the highest level in martial arts is a misconception. While it is the end of the colored belts, Black Belt is a new beginning. A journey towards the understanding of the Zen Do Ka and yourself. A True Zendoka never ceases their exploration of Martial Arts and will continue to discover more in the Dan Grades, contributing to the art of Zen Do Ka with skills they have personally developed or adapted from elsewhere.
Zen Do Ka. The Japanese word Zen means "meditation" Do means path, Ka is the spirit on the path. A Zendoka is a spirit on the path of enlightenment. Many travel, some finish. The question is "does such destination exist, or is the path the destination?"
To put it blunly, is "zendoka" a proper Japanese word or it just some bullshit word which Western martial arts practitioners have invented? If it's a proper word, is it a word a Japanese native speaker would use?
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I've searched "zendoka" on the net and found a site probably you quoted the paragraph from.
About Zen Do Ka -
Right after the explanation about "Zen do ka" in the page linked above, there's a calligraphy 禅道靈 (which is not skilled and contains wrong kanji, though). The explanations for 禅 and 道 are correct. 靈 indeed means "spirit", but is NEVER read "ka". Honestly, I've never heard "zendoka" and can't think of "ka" that means "spirit".
About Zen Do Ka -
Right after the explanation about "Zen do ka" in the page linked above, there's a calligraphy 禅道靈 (which is not skilled and contains wrong kanji, though). The explanations for 禅 and 道 are correct. 靈 indeed means "spirit", but is NEVER read "ka". Honestly, I've never heard "zendoka" and can't think of "ka" that means "spirit".
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nekojita
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Maybe they were thinking of other words ending ~道家 (douka), like 柔道家, and then decided 家 just wasn't awesome enough. 
Or, probably more likely, someone picked the kanji based on the English translation/explanation, and wasn't sure which kanji to use for "spirit" so just took the most complicated looking one.
There is at least one Japanese group that uses the name Zendokai (禅道会 ). Their explanation for the name here (includes bonus discussion of Freud, demonstrating the eternal and universal principle of Foreign Stuff Is Cool):
武道について(武道と無意識) | NPO法人日本総合格闘技連盟 空手道禅道会 総本部
Or, probably more likely, someone picked the kanji based on the English translation/explanation, and wasn't sure which kanji to use for "spirit" so just took the most complicated looking one.
There is at least one Japanese group that uses the name Zendokai (禅道会 ). Their explanation for the name here (includes bonus discussion of Freud, demonstrating the eternal and universal principle of Foreign Stuff Is Cool):
武道について(武道と無意識) | NPO法人日本総合格闘技連盟 空手道禅道会 総本部
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Yeah I, too, found 禅道会 while googling 禅道. Interestingly, the URL of the home page of "Zen Do Ka" is "zendokai-karate-kickboxing.com", and you can also see the name "ZEN DO KAI" printed on a brochure which is put in front of a boy in a picture on the page I linked above. This is my wild guess, but "Zen Do Ka" might be originally founded as "Zen Do Kai" and changed the name to the present one by some reason (for instance, due to the copyright issue).
EDIT:
I found this page.
intermartialarts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69&p=991&viewfull=1#post991
"Zen Do Ka" used "Zen Do Kai" by themselves in thier post on May, 2010, and edited the post on August, 2010 due to "Changed business name and email address". It seems to me that the meaning of "Ka" is so-called 後付け in Japanese(The thing is decided first, and then the reason is added to it).
EDIT:
I found this page.
intermartialarts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69&p=991&viewfull=1#post991
"Zen Do Ka" used "Zen Do Kai" by themselves in thier post on May, 2010, and edited the post on August, 2010 due to "Changed business name and email address". It seems to me that the meaning of "Ka" is so-called 後付け in Japanese(The thing is decided first, and then the reason is added to it).
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Hello again! 
I have a problem with a certain sentence (it's a fragment of a dialogue from a manga; I put it in the same way it's printed in the speech bubble):
そんななりで
うろうろ
されてみろ
目立って仕方ねえ
I have the biggest problem with うろうろされてみろ . Is うろうろされて a passive form of うろうろする? If so, what does it mean in this form? If you translate it literally it doesn't make sense... Or maybe it's a potential form of さる? I found quite a lot examples of such usage of this verb - is it a set expression?
Also, just to make sure: I should treat 目立って仕方ねえ as a separate sentence, right?
I'll be really grateful for help. ^^
I have a problem with a certain sentence (it's a fragment of a dialogue from a manga; I put it in the same way it's printed in the speech bubble):
そんななりで
うろうろ
されてみろ
目立って仕方ねえ
I have the biggest problem with うろうろされてみろ . Is うろうろされて a passive form of うろうろする? If so, what does it mean in this form? If you translate it literally it doesn't make sense... Or maybe it's a potential form of さる? I found quite a lot examples of such usage of this verb - is it a set expression?
Also, just to make sure: I should treat 目立って仕方ねえ as a separate sentence, right?
I'll be really grateful for help. ^^
