[butterflyeffect]

1. Translate? お使いいただけるURLです。
2. What's Japanese for 'purple'?

It is a url which can be used

.. I believe purple is 紫[murasaki]

[x_shirley]

nitabunni
tvxq<3
akira53

thank you =]

[Tamago86]

Hi there!
I tried to romanize this by ear. I might have made a mistake though. Can anyone translate this for me please? If it's make no sense I can record it instead.

"Nonsensu ine. Tonomoga shiri saiwa nagerageta"

and

"Anata imo kankenai"

- Thanks.

The 2nd one means 'It has nothing to do with you" or "It's none of your business" (anata ni mo kankei nai)
Not sure about the first one though...nonsensu ine probably means don't talk nonsense and saiwai nagerareta means having one's happiness thrown away but I'd need to hear the whole thing to make sense of it

[ilovemesomekorean]

does anyone know what kuso means? thanks~

[akira53]

^ kuso means sh!t...like poop

[ilovemesomekorean]

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~~~ thanks so much~

[Misao]

"It looks very interesting" wa nihongo de nan desu ka?

[akira53]

^ tottemo omoshiroi sou desu(ne).

[honeysky]

^ tottemo omoshiroi sou desu(ne).

that means I heard it was interesting~


totemo omoshirosou desu
とてもおもしろそうです

[akira53]

how do you read this combination?
興味
what is the radical on the first character?

[tengteng]

Manatsu no Yoru no Yume

What is the english translation for this? Please help me...thank you!

[Tamago86]

Manatsu no Yoru no Yume

What is the english translation for this? Please help me...thank you!

A Midsummer Night's Nream
Sounds like the Japanese version of Shakespeare

how do you read this combination?
興味
what is the radical on the first character?

kyoumi　- interest
興 (kyou) is a combination of the radicals 一 ハ 冂 口 and 臼

[nobody knows]

A Midsummer Night's Nream
Sounds like the Japanese version of Shakespeare

it's actually a song for the Death note movie by Shikao Suga

[tengteng]

Tamago86 & JapaneseObssession:

Thanks for all your help!
I really like this song.

[akira53]

kyoumi　- interest
興 (kyou) is a combination of the radicals 一 ハ 冂 口 and 臼

thanks, I was looking for the last one.

[Crazy_Ramyun]

May i ask a favour?
I need this quote translated in furigana text "Protect your emperor, Honour your family". I personally know no Japanese. I need this translated for a Japanese WWII propaganda poster project for my history class and the furigana writing style was used most during this time as I read. Thank you in advance to anyone who can translate this for me! .

[Heroine]

would someone be able to somehow translate my chinese name into japanese..? 明思

or give me the hiragana for it or something...? O__O

[Tamago86]

I need this quote translated in furigana text "Protect your emperor, Honour your family".

Do you mean hiragana? furigana are the little hiragana that appear next to or above kanji characters to help people be able to pronounce difficult characters or for kids who might not have learned it yet. But anyways:

kanji: 天皇を守れ！親を敬え！
hiragana: てんのうをまもれ！おやをうやまえ！　
romaji: tennou o mamore! oya o uyamae!

would someone be able to somehow translate my chinese name into japanese..? 明思

or give me the hiragana for it or something...? O__O

Well 明思 would be read meishi in Japanese, but that's just translating it character for character. They would spell your name in katakana (script used for foreign things) based on how your name sounds to them in Chinese...so if your Chinese name was ming si they might say minsu or mingusu or maybe even, in katakana ミンス or ミングス

[Mandy I Am]

If anyone can help me on this, I would greatly appreciate it. Over on another forum we have a small debate going on about what kanji really is. One of the posters on the forum has a friend going to Japan for a foreign exchange program and wanted to know what people DO know about Japan. This is when the subject of kanji came in play. I read on a site that kanji is the Chinese written form of the Japanese language. Someone else tells me that the chinese form is Hanzi. This is getting somewhat confusing because we're obviously getting mixed information from different sites. So I wanted to come to the best source where people actually speak and write the languages and know far more about it than myself and this other person would. I thank you in advance for whatever explanation I can get.

[Tamago86]

It's kind of complicated, saying kanji is the Chinese written form of Japanese is not entirely accurate though. Japanese kanji are indeed Chinese characters, but they are modified and used very differently than how they are in Chinese. Similar to how we've adopted the Roman alphabet to represent the script of the English language, so have the Japanese adapted Chinese characters to represent the main script of their language, but calling English Latin or calling Japanese Chinese is alittle off. The Chinese characters came to Japan by way of Chinese missionaries, monks, and diplomats and just normal Chinese who immigrated to Japan, who taught Japanese people the characters. Before that Japanese people had no written language. Later on, Japanese invented hiragana based off of the cursive writing style called sousho (草書) used to write those Chinese characters (which at the time they were already using as authentic Japanese). For example the hiragana ま comes from character 末, and や from 也, た from 太, い from 以, etc. Even later on came katakana.

Simply put:
Kanji are Chinese characters used in a Japanese way.
Hanzi are Chinese characters used in a Chinese way.
Both sometimes look the same extensionally, but are incredibly different intensionally..ie their appearance is similar but their usage is very different.

By the way "kanji" is the Japanese word for Chinese characters, and "hanzi" is the Chinese word for Chinese characters (both written 漢字)