What is the Japanese symbol for the word "Japanese" ?

Question

If possible, please include a link to a picture of the symbol - Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

♡I agree with the previous answer.
☆Japanese language is 'Nihongo':日本語
☆Japanese people would be 'Nihonjin': 日本人
Here's a link to the picture of the symbols for you:
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/Cyn_010/Japanese.jpg?t=1163903933
Take a look here as well:
Nihongo- Japanese language:
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/Cyn_010/Nihongo.jpg?t=1163904340
Nihonjin- Japanese people:
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/Cyn_010/Nihonjin.jpg?t=1163904409
http://www.yesjapan.com/dictionary/yesjapan200k.php
Hope this helps!♡

Answer 2

That would be a ridiculous tattoo. And Japanese people would laugh their asses off if they saw it. First of all, like the previous posts, do is written as 'suru' or する in the infinitive form as in 'to do'. But in more polite use when conjrugated it is 'shimasu' or します as in 'I do' , 'you do', 'he does', etc. I think what you are looking for is a kanji character. Well this is not it....this is always written in Hiragana which is a syllabic writing system. To Japanese and to anyone who speaks Japanese, it would be meaningless and ridiculous looking. Find another word for the "cool" tattoo that you want .

Answer 3

I see you've already got pics for Japanese language and Japanese people..!!

But, just in case you actually need the 'symbol' for things that are from Japan, like Japanese cars etc., you'd just use the first two characters (that are the same in both) and add this at the end;
http://www.nihongoweb.com/Hiraganapro/no.html
(I couldn't find an image of just the の, so I gave you the link to a site that shows you how to write it! It's the best thing I could think of..!)

Answer 4

all of these are good answers. I would just like to add that when learning Kanji for things it is often really good to learn the true meaning behind them.
As mentioned and shown in some of the answers already you say
"Nihongo" for Japanese language
and
"Nihonjin" for Japanese person

(The "Wa" described is more commonly found in describing kinds of food or clothing and a few other things. For example:
"washoku" would be Japanese food
[Jimbreen's dictionary is really good for finding the kanji]

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C )

In teaching my students, I emphasize strongly that there really is no point in learning the chinese characters unless you understand their meaning. It makes things so much harder and confusing if you don't know why those symbols are arranged like that so in that respect:


日本語

1. 日本 "Sun Main" or "Main Sun" = Japan
i.言 " Mouth + sound coming out" = (to)Speak
ii.五 = (number) 5
iii.口 = Mouth
i. +ii.+iii. = Language
1. +i. +ii. +iii. = Japanese (language)

Next:

日本人

1. 日本 "Sun Main" or "Main Sun" = Japan
a. 人 = person

1. +a. = Japanese (person)

Note: The "wa" that was mentioned earlier (和) literally means "harmony" or "peace" but stands to represent Japan a lot.

For more information on the basic building blocks of Kanji (radicals):
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm

hope that's sufficient

Answer 5

You've already got good answers. I just might add that the symbol 和　(wa) is also used to mean Japanese (language or otherwise),

Answer 6

It depends on what you mean by "Japanese".
If you mean Japanese language, then it is 日本語
If you mean a Japanese person, then it is 日本人

If you want a link to a picture because you cannot view Japanese, then go to Control Panel, Regional Options, and add East Asian languages to your computer.

Answer 7

yes, i speak japanese fluently. been speakin it since i was 4 (9 years) the symbol for "nihonngo" is"日本" if you want to say "nihonnjin" maening person of japan, it would be"日本人"

Answer 8

Here:

日本/日本国, Nihon or Nippon

Here's the link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan