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Mike Cash said:

Actually, it is a suffix added to a preceding noun and turns it into an adjectival noun. For example 経済 into 経済的. So it means "of" or "having to do with xxx".

At your current grasp of Japanese, it would be far more encouraging if you had shown more interest in the な than the 的.

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Shirou said:

Please, anyone can tell me what it's wrote in this image? Thank you very much!

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Shirou said:

Please, anyone can tell me what it's wrote in this image? Thank you very much!

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Mike Cash said:

進化したアクションを体験せよ。 連撃

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taktak said:

Hi, guys,

My guess is it reads 海鷲 or umiwashi, meaning "sea eagles", as were called Japanese fighters (and pilots) during WWII. The explanation is as follows:
1) Till the end of WWII, when Japanese was written horizontally (as were magazine titles, shop signs, company names on trucks, etc. ) it was usually written from right to left. The guy who wrote this must have remembered that.
2) 海鷲 was not the name of a specific model of Japanese fighters as 紫電改 etc., but general nickname for fighters and pilots (there are films entitled 桃太郎の海鷲, an anime, 海鷲, a documentary, etc. (Which means this sign is not a genuine one, because no fighter had this written on them or, for that matter, no fighters had their names written in kanji on them, if not model numbers. It's written on the replica just for a show.)
3) As for the kanji 鷲, I first suspected it was an 異体字 (variant) of 鷲, but a look up of my 漢和辞典 proved it wasn't (there's no 異体字 for 鷲). My guess is that might be because of it being written in stencil (it's hard to think a Japanese military fan who wrote it made such an elementary mistake about such a rather popular kanji like 鷲 when cutting out a stencil plate or painting otherwise. Why stencil? You see the bottom stroke of the さんずい of 海 is divided in two. And the look of the photograph suggest that the letters were first stenciled and then retouched. When writing letters in stencil, they often change strokes not to let parts drop off...., but for this point I'm not really sure.

taktak

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Mike Cash said:

Nothing in Japanese makes sense to you. Try learning the ****** language instead of just kanji.

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Mike Cash said:

Instead of being antagonistic, why don't you try counting the number of people who have bothered trying to help your clueless self?

I reply just to prove that people who stick their fingers in their ears and get their panties in a wad when being told what they NEED to hear instead of what they WANT to hear by proclaiming they're putting somebody on their ignore list in reality just can't resist the urge to click and see what was said.

You proved me right.

Seriously, you don't have the first damned clue about even the most rudimentary elements of how Japanese works....clueless about particles, clueless about conjugation, and what's worse don't even give a flying sh!t to bother learning....and you obsess over how kanji are used. You NEED to have a familiarity with the LANGUAGE in order for explanations about how kanji were force-fit onto it as a writing system to make any sense at all. Why don't you try learning what any m0ron would pick up from the first two or three lessons of any beginning Japanese class before assuming you're so damned smart that kanji alone is all you need? Have you ever given a thought to why there are kana scattered about here and there throughout Japanese text? It is because they contain bits of information vital to understanding how all parts relate to each other, bits that can't be sussed from the kanji parts alone. No, jackass, you CAN'T just gloss the kanji from Japanese text and skip the rest and have any hopes of understanding it clearly. And you sure as hell can't WRITE Japanese that way either.

Do us all a favor and go learn Chinese already.

PS: 私 IS わたくし.

When the clue store opens, run down and pick up a few.

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Mike Cash said:

I barely tolerate PMs from people I like. Sending me one would be a waste of your time.

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Mike Cash said:

My mistake has been assuming you are interested in learning Japanese. It is abundantly evident you are not.

There is a difference between bullying people and trying to get a point across to the deliberately obtuse. However, you have quite correctly reminded me of the wisdom of the adage, "Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig".

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Mike Cash said:

I didn't say word one about having to learn hiragana before or instead of kanji.

What I have been hammering at, and which you seem incapable of even contemplating, much less grasping, is that the LANGUAGE and the ORTHOGRAPHY are two different things.

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