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I-RO-HA, the Japanese ABC

Day 625, 23:56 • Published in Japan Japan

• by Kyonkyon

I am Kyonkyon.
I am from Hokkaido.
I can not speak English well.
But I like to show Japanese culture.

The name of newspaper is
I-RO-HA.

I-RO-HA means ABC in Japanese.

I write about Japanese culture and Japanese language.

In Japanese we use kana and kanji.
Kana is like alphabet.
Kanji is difficult and is like a picture.

Today's kana

い

This is the Japanese i.

Today's kanji

北

This means north.
We read it kita or hoku.

Comments

sohfeeuh Day 626, 00:31

Great idea!

Yay for promoting Japanese culture! 😃

Oraizan Day 626, 00:41

Best article in the media. :3

Uraczak Day 626, 01:10

May I suggest a bigger example of each character? I'm not from Japan, and those characters are difficult to identify at this size.

akiliase Day 626, 01:29

what about Hiragana.I only know hiragana.when do we use it?

Iyami Kawatama Day 626, 01:42

Voted!

DemeD Day 626, 02:04

good article, but plz in the next article write more because we like it 😁

Kyonkyon Day 626, 04:35

Thank you.

I do not know how to use bigger font size.
But now you can see the kanji big in photo.
I hope it is clear now.

In hiragana we write endings and particles.
Or words with difficult kanji.
For example.
日本語を学ぶ。
Nihongo o manabu.

This means I study Japanese.

Japanese is in kanji
日本語
This is nihongo
日本nihon is Japan
語 is language
so all together Japanese.

学ぶ
manabu
is verb
it has one kanji and one hiragana
学 is kanji and means study. here we read it mana
ぶ is a hiragana. it is the sound for bu.
it is the ending.

there are other endings.
for example

学ばない　manabanai　
means I do not study
or
学べれる manaberu
means I can study

the kanji does not change.

most verbs have one kanji and one hiragana ending

like

寝る
読む
聞く
書く
働く
笑う