What is mostly used on signs in Tokyo: Katakana, Hiragana or Kanji?
2019年10月28日 · The road signs in most places in Japan have been standardised, such that any directional signs will typically have both Japanese (typically kanji with kana where appropriate) and English for place names. Most other signs will either have just a symbol or include a small amount of Japanese (e.g. 止まれ), possibly with English as well.
What exactly is this - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
2012年8月21日 · For this reason, it is usually not appropriate to replace ※ with an asterisk in texts translated from Japanese to English (and it is almost never appropriate to leave ※ intact in English texts). When they do link body text to footnotes, ※s are often used with Arabic numerals, such as ※1, ※2, etc.
Ways to express prohibitions - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
1. 禁止 {きんし} can actually frequently be found on Japanese signs. 喫煙禁止 {きつえんきんし} - "No smoking" and 立入禁止 {たちいりきんし} - "Do not enter" are common examples. Due to the concise nature of this word (only two characters), it actually lends itself quite nicely to prohibition signs. A Google image ...
Japanese quotation marks - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
3. I'm trying to understand the use of Japanese quotation marks, and I'm at a loss: in other languages, inverted commas shows (1) a direct quote («He said, "That's not enough"»), a non literal meaning («He is my "friend"» - whereas he isn't really a friend), or a meta usage (i.e. using the word for its signifier and not its meaning: «I ...
Tally Marks in Japanese? - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
2017年2月3日 · The conventional Japanese tally follows the stroke order for 正. So if the total were 8, it'd look like ...
When should either 「」 and - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
2011年6月19日 · 28. In Japanese, the symbols 「」 are called [鉤括弧] {かぎかっこ} and the symbols 『』 are called [二重鉤括弧] {にじゅうかぎかっこ}. The basic rules for these symbols are simple: 「」 is used to denote quotation, and 『』 is used to denote quotation inside a 「」-quote. Example:
orthography - What do these symbols in manga mean? - Japanese …
2020年5月3日 · 14. This seems to be an encoding/typesetting issue and the "symbols" are indeed Greek letters Ψ, Π, π that seem to be displayed instead of !, ?, 〜. There is another typographical oddity that suggests something went wrong here: the chōonpu (long vowel marker) ー (for example in はーい or おーいっ) should be vertical in vertical ...
numbers - How do people in Japan count with their fingers?
2015年8月17日 · Zero is actually an open hand, that is, all five fingers are extended. To count 1, fold in your thumb, and fold in fingers going toward the pinky to count further. To count six through ten, do it in reverse order- extending out the pinky is six, and so on. (This means that there are some ambiguities between 0-4 and 6-10, but since you are on ...
Do Japanese people see ツ as a smiling face?
Just like your ت (which sort of looks like a smiling face to me) and the German ü (to Japanese eyes, say), the Japanese ツ doesn't look like a smiling face to any eye who has become used to reading it as a letter. So I think if you ask a Japanese native reader whether ツ looks like a smiling face, I would say the answer will invariably be ...
quotation marks「」vs - Japanese Language Stack Exchange
2020年6月7日 · The primary function of quotes is to enclose what someone said or thought, usually along with a quotative-と. For this basic purpose, the "proper" Japanese quotation marks (「」) are normally chosen, but other symbols are sometimes used in informal situations. To highlight important or unfamiliar words, various symbols including ...