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[ullvarg]

Well your wordtank probably provides some information on it, but as I pointed out, it's extremely rare as a Japanese kanji so it's not really used at all.

To be honest the wordtank is crap so it doesn't provide any real explanations in the kanji dict and I do know its not used anymore, I just thought It would be fun to be able to use it to flex in school
Thanks for giving me the meaning, I just wish I had a 2 or more kanji word I could use it in

 

[JimmySeal]

If you want a similar character you can use the kanji 曖 in the word 曖昧. That's a pretty common word, though most people probably can't write it from memory.

 

[ullvarg]

Actually I knew that one, just never thought so much about the similarity, its in the 4th chapter of my ２級 book, but thanks for the tip. Ill stop bothering you with the other one I just wanted to be able to use it for kicks
Thanks for giving me the meaning of it though I went around for weeks asking teachers in my school about it and no one knew

 

[StandAlone2323]

Yeah, I've got a few but this one has been bugging me for a while: 自分 (jibun)

 

[JimmySeal]

Yeah, I've got a few but this one has been bugging me for a while: 自分 (jibun)

It means "self" in various senses of the word, such as myself, him/herself, themselves, I, etc.

 

[StandAlone2323]

It means "self" in various senses of the word, such as myself, him/herself, themselves, I, etc.

ah, thanks. i hear that all the time in J-Pop

 

[hanjimono]

Help with Kanji please!

Hello everyone! While I was in Okinawa , Japan I picked up two shot glasses with Kanji on them. I asked the lady what they meant and of course I forgot their meanings! :emoji_grinning:. If anyone could help me with these I would be greatly appreciated! Sorry about the image quality, all I have is my camera phone.

The pictures seemed a little big so I just added the url to each one:

Thanks again!

 

[arpee92]

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[moscos]

How can I write my name in kanji? I can only write my name either katakana or hiragana, but I want also to learn to write it on kanji.

David Marc - (katakana) デイビッド マーク
David Marc -(kanji) ?????

Anyone?

 

[hanjimono]

None of the photos are loading

Sorry I had to take down my server for about a week, if you wouldn't mind looking at them again I would be very grateful.

 

[JimmySeal]

The second one is most likely 福 - luck. The first is too stylized for me to read it.

 

[yzzerdd]

Hi, I was wondering if someone would be able to translate something for me.
I was thinking about buying this:

and I wanted to know what the characters on the guard said before I bought it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[masaegu]

The kanji on the katana guard is the name of the sword. It means "The sword that brings brethren from past and future the true spirit of Wa". 'Wa' means the Japanese spirit of harmony. This is incidentally the very phrase that was written on the sword that Ken Watanabe gave Tom Cruise in the film 'Last Samurai '.

 

[undrentide]

古今有神
奉志士

It looks to be fanciful coinage in Chinese classic （漢文） style.
(I'm not sure if it strictly follows the rule, though.)

古今 past and present
有神 god exists
奉 to devote, offer, dedicate
志士 persons with high/noble ambition and willing to sacrifice himself for the country or society.

 

[shila]

I'm attempting to read something on an image, and one kanji is a little too small for me to make out what it is yet. Any ideas?

 

[JimmySeal]

@shila
Here you go:
構

 

[InterestedSwed]

Help?

Hello!
I´d like some help with translating a sentence "Master of time and knowledge"
I´m sorry if I seem lacy by doing this, but I don´t have the time nore knowledge to try to find the ?Characters? (?Kanji?) But I would indeed be very grateful for some help
So please help a 17 year old boy.
Thanks for reading and maybe answering to!

André /17

 

[masaegu]

「時間と知性の支配者」 would be a choice.

 

[orochi]

>>「時間と知性の支配者」 would be a choice.

You may just want to use 時（とき） for time. 時 is usually used to represent the concept while 時間 is more like "the time it takes to do something" or "a measure of time".

Also, 知性 is usually used to describe something. You may want to use 智恵 (ちえ）, which better represents the concept of knowledge.

As for the word to use for master, there are tons of options. InterestedSwed, can you give us some more background on what sort of master you mean and how this phrase will be used?

 

[drj0402]

How can I write my name in kanji? I can only write my name either katakana or hiragana, but i want also to learn to write it on kanji.
David Marc - (katakana) デイビッド マーク
David Marc -(kanji) ?????
anyone?

My name is David, too.

I used to be very exacting about how my name was spelled in katakana.

デイヴィッド

But my Japanese friends kept dropping the イ after the デ and turning the final ドinto a ト making it デビト, because "that's how I was pronouncing it."

Was I really? Anyway, I just accepted it and moved on.

I never sought out Kanji for my name because of the small tsu, but if you remove that one, here are a couple of humorous ways to render it.

出井微度
Out of the well by delicate degrees

出位尾土
Out of the ranks, tail on the ground

And here are a couple for Maaku.

真亜区
Real Asian sector

間阿句
Interval African phrase

Note: Dave is very close to the slang for fatso, debu. Also Ma-a-ku is close to ma-ya-ku, which means illicit drugs. :wary:

 

[masaegu]

How wild! I have never seen the name 'David' transcribed as 'デビト' in my life as a native speaker of Japanese. It's most often written in katakana as 'デービッド', followed probably by 'デイビッド'. But if you know any Japanese, those two are pronounced the same way. 'デビト' would just sound very strange to the native ear.

 

[epigene]

How wild! I have never seen the name 'David' transcribed as 'デビト' in my life as a native speaker of Japanese. It's most often written in katakana as 'デービッド', followed probably by 'デイビッド'. But if you know any Japanese, those two are pronounced the same way. 'デビト' would just sound very strange to the native ear.

I agree, but I think it stems from this naturalized Japanese celebrity:

debito.org | Dr. Debito Arudou's Home Page: Issues of Life and Human Rights in Japan

 

[Elizabeth]

>>「時間と知性の支配者」 would be a choice.

You may just want to use 時（とき） for time. 時 is usually used to represent the concept while 時間 is more like "the time it takes to do something" or "a measure of time".

時 is normally more like "when" or "the time that..." as "point/moment in time or in life." Are you thinking of a particular set phrase it can be put into like "Time flies like an arrow" 「(時、時間はやのように過ぎ去る」...but even that is slightly unnatural.

時間 expressions of the concept of time are more wider ranging it seems to me. (Time is precious, don't waste time, make time, spend time...etc).

Also, 知性 is usually used to describe something. You may want to use 智恵 (ちえ）, which better represents the concept of knowledge.

I would just use the normal 知識 which represents purely awareness /understanding/familiarity of a subject area(s) without overtones of other aspects such as wisdom and intelligence etc. Perhaps 学問 for academic scholarship or learning.

 

[jmwintenn]

I had a question about one of the kanji I was learning for this week,the graphemes for it are blade and heart(the kanji has the blade over the heart) but I couldn't find it on Jim Breens site or by typing it in word,its supposed to mean "bear/hide" and I wanted to know if it meant bear,as in the animal,or as in "to bear something".ie He bears the weight of infidelity on his conscious"


I checked the book I'm using(published in 2000) and it teaches the joyo kanji,since I couldn't find it, is that bad:?

 

[JimmySeal]

Could it be this one? 忍 It would be close to "bear" in the verb sense.