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1931: The former jōyō kanji list was revised and 1,858 characters were specified. 1942: 1,134 characters as standard jōyō kanji and 1,320 characters as sub-jōyō kanji were specified. 1946: The 1,850 characters of tōyō kanji were adopted by law "as those most essential for common use and everyday communication". [1]
一日 pi 1 to 2 pi 1 (1 day), 一年 pi 1 to 2 to 2 se (1 year) 2 futa: 二夜 futayo 2 (2 nights) 3 mi 1: 三十 mi 1 so 1 (30) 4 yo 2: 四十 yo 2 so 1 (40), 四人 yo 2 tari (4 people) 5 itu: 五年 ituto 2 se (5 years) 6 mu: 六爪 mutuma (6 claws) 7 nana: 七瀬 nanase (many rapids) Often used to mean many. 8 ya: 八雲 yakumo 1 (many ...
Nanori (Japanese: 名乗り, "to say or give one's own name") are the often non-standard kanji character readings (pronunciations) found almost exclusively in Japanese names. In the Japanese language, many Japanese names are constructed from common characters with standard pronunciations. However, names may also contain rare characters which ...
The jōyō kanji list was introduced, which included seven of the original 92 jinmeiyō kanji from 1951 (mentioned above), plus one of the 28 new jinmeiyō kanji from 1976 (also mentioned above); those eight were thus removed from the jinmeiyō kanji list. 54 other characters were added for a total of 166 name characters.
Japanese also makes extensive use of adopted Chinese characters, or kanji, which may be pronounced with one or more syllables. Therefore, when a word or phrase is abbreviated, it does not take the form of initials, but the key characters of the original phrase, such that a new word is made, often recognizably derived from the original.
Move punctuation character to the end of the previous line. Oidashi (Wrap to next) Send characters not permitted at the end of a line to the next line, increase tracking to pad out first line. Another use is to wrap a character from the first line with the goal of preventing a character that shouldn't start a line from coming first on the next ...
In the name 福田康夫, the family name is 福田 (Fukuda) and the given name is 康夫 (Yasuo). However, to reflect the Western convention of listing the given name first and the family name last, the romanized names of most Japanese people born since the establishment of the Meiji era in 1868 conform to the "given name, family name" order.
The character as a whole is visually similar to the hiragana for ro (ろ). ル (katakana) is made by first making a curved stroke going down and to the left, and is followed by a stroke that first goes straight down, and then a curved line going up and to the right. Stroke order in writing る Stroke order in writing ル