I Am Confuzzled....

[FeminineMarshmallow]

いろはにほへと.
the translation of に in this sentence is ni, but i thought ni looked totally different.
is it different for this sentence or am i wrong?
Oh and i thought "Wi[ゑ] " had no Hiragana, but it does apparently in this.

ゑひもせす

 

[nice gaijin]

に is the only hiragana character pronounced ni, but your sentence doesn't make any sense...

 

[hideway]

Also Wi is outdated. It isn't used anymore.

 

[NattyBumppo]

You may or may not know this, but the いろは is an old, old poem, written about 1,000 years ago, and as such it's not going to be easy for beginning Japanese students to read at all.

You can read more about it on Wikipedia:

Iroha - Wikipedia

And "wi" is written as ゐ. The character you wrote (ゑ) is "we." But neither is used in modern Japanese.

 

[nice gaijin]

Ahh I'm familiar with いろは but never learned it beyond the first few characters, as the only exposure I've had was the いろは坂 going to 日光, thanks for the heads up. I wonder what learning materials FeminineMarshmellow is using...

 

[FeminineMarshmallow]

im learning with いろは

I have a list of hiragana in a book, and i thought it would be useful to memorize some lines of something for my writing skills.
i guess i should pick something more modern ^-^

 

[ハダカ]

During playing more time in Tenchu start to think that medieval Japanese even more attractive then modern