Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Japanese number

Now we learn a little bit about number, like other number, we use arabic's binary number system, but the character is chinese kanji character, however for complex number usually is display using normal number, for example 20,000,000 is written also as 20,000,000.



漢字



- Kanji


ひらがな



- Hiragana


Romaji
(English Letters)





English Meaning









いち




ichi




one












ni




two








さん




san




three








し、よん

shi/yon




four












go




five








ろく




roku




six








しち、なな

shichi/nana




seven








はち




hachi




eight








きゅう




kyuu




nine








じゅう




juu




ten








ひゃく




hyaku




hundred








漢字



- Kanji


ひらがな



- Hiragana


Romaji
(English Letters)





English Meaning





一時




いちじ




ichiji




one o'clock




二時




にじ




niji




two o'clock




二時半




にじはん




nijihan




two thirty ( means half)

二時四十五分




にじよんじゅうごふん




nijiyonjuugofun




2:45 ( means minute)




漢字



- Kanji


ひらがな



- Hiragana


Romaji
(English Letters)





English Meaning





一月




いちがつ




ichigatsu




January




二月




にがつ




nigatsu




February




三月




さんがつ




sangatsu




March




四月




しがつ




shigatsu




April




If you see in the first table, I only put number until 10 then jump to 100 because number after that is written by combining a number from 1 to 10. For example 十一 (じゅういち, juuichi), 12 - juuni, 13 - juusan, 14 - juuyon, etc. 20 is simply 二十 (にじゅう, nijuu), 21 - nijuuichi. So as the time and month, they will follow such pattern. While below is how japanese describe days




漢字



- Kanji


ひらがな



- Hiragana


Romaji
(English Letters)





English Meaning





日曜日




にちようび




nichiyoubi




Sunday ( - sun/day)

月曜日




げつようび




getsuyoubi




Monday ( - moon)

火曜日




かようび




kayoubi




Tuesday ( - fire)

水曜日




すいようび




suiyoubi




Wednesday ( - water)

木曜日




もくようび




mokuyoubi




Thursday ( - tree/wood)

金曜日




きんようび




kinyoubi




Friday ( - gold)

土曜日




どようび




doyoubi




Saturday ( - dirt)

今日




きょう




kyou




Today




明日




あした




ashita




Tomorrow




昨日




きのう




kinou




Yesterday




一昨日




おととい




ototoi




the day before yesterday




明後日




あさって




asatte




the day after tomorrow (a small "tsu" () makes a double consonant)

今朝




けさ




kesa




this morning




今晩




こんばん




konban




this evening








いま




ima




now







If you have more example, you can put a comment:)