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The term "先生", read sensei in Japanese, hsien sheng/xiansheng in Chinese, seonsaeng in Korean, and tiên sinh in Vietnamese, is an honorific used in the Sinosphere. The term literally means "person born before another" or "one who comes before". [ 1 ]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Japanese martial arts often use sensei (先生) to address teachers. Junior and senior students (先輩 and 後輩) are categorized separately based on experience level. In aikidō and some systems of karate, [citation needed] O-Sensei (大先生) is the title of the (deceased) head of the style
If you're not sure how to pronounce the term, try Merriam-Webster or howjsay.com for an example (but of course do not copy IPA or sound files directly from non-free websites). For many terms, you may be able to find videos online where people pronounce the name correctly (but be wary of incorrect pronunciations).
Normative pitch accent, essentially the pitch accent of the Tokyo Yamanote dialect, is considered essential in jobs such as broadcasting.The current standards for pitch accent are presented in special accent dictionaries for native speakers such as the Shin Meikai Nihongo Akusento Jiten (新明解日本語アクセント辞典) and the NHK Nihongo Hatsuon Akusento Jiten (NHK日本語発音 ...
To Note: this section marked as ~*~ is written by Lauren Alexis Divinity, a Reiki Master of Life, as Gennette Huber was her Reiki Teacher, and our Reiki Lineage extends though William Lee Rand back up to Sensei Mikao Usui as the Grandmaster of Reiki Reiju. The family's ashes are buried at the grave site at the Saihō-ji Temple in Tokyo. [10]
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Abdul Razak was born on 7 July 1925, [1] in Penang, British Malaya. [3] In 1943, Abdul Razak, along with two other Malaysian students were chosen to study in Japan for a degree in education. [2]