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Anyone know what this means?
2007-08-18 09:35:39 · 10 answers · asked by Krumpits&Tea☺ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's 日本 which means Japan in English.
Japanese and Chinese use same characters/symbols for this word but the reading is different.
It's read "Nihon" or "Nippon" in Japanese and "rìbĕn" in Chinese.
2007-08-18 13:47:33 · answer #1 · answered by soph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can be both Japanese or Chinese as it means the same thing in both languages. It just means Japan.
2007-08-18 20:32:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nihon = nippon = japan
the japanese language is thought to be related to korean, manchurian, and mongolian, and more distantly to finnish and hungarian. until the 5th century, when chinese characters were introduced, the japanese had no writing system.using kanji as a base, the japanese devised two syllabic alphabets, hiragana and katakana.
alphabets are used together with kanji in writing modern japanese.
2007-08-18 17:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by askawow 47 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its "kanji", or Chinese characters used in Japanese. Hiragana (Japanese) script for the same symbols would read like "ni hon"
2007-08-18 16:46:45 · answer #4 · answered by CCBB 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it says Japan, or "Nihon." it is written in kanji (kanji is a japanese word meaning chinese symbols). japanese is written with kanji along with two alphabet systems (hiragana and katakana).
so basically...the symbols themselves can be considered either chinese or japanese, although they are originally chinese.
2007-08-18 16:45:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nihon.
It means Japan.
2007-08-18 16:41:26 · answer #6 · answered by Belie 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
æ¥æ¬ Nippon. Japan.
2007-08-18 21:54:18 · answer #7 · answered by tarumemu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chinese or Hanzi or Kanji or Hanja. It's "Japan" in ugly handwriting.
2007-08-18 19:04:55 · answer #8 · answered by bryan_q 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
These are Japanese kanji. They say "Nihon"= Japan.
2007-08-18 16:46:20 · answer #9 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Spooky is right. However, these are CHINESE symbols. Weird, isn't it?
2007-08-18 16:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋