Fun Japanese Factoid, Sometimes (but Very Rarely) Kanji is Fun

This is the kanji symbol for "woman:"



Guess what this kanji (three of the above kanji compacted into one character) means:



Spoilers:

Noisy, loud, etc.

Oh, man, I lol'd.

why does it take three of those characters to mean noisy/loud

because only two would mean moaning

Good question.

In America, you only need 1.

there's an old japanese proverb about it, actually

when there's three women together all you get is noise

something like that

****ing japanese sexists

Why is the symbol for woman the same in Chinese?

Because the Japanese stole the Chinese idea of using symbols to represent words, and gave it a Japanese name, kanji. Jerks. :S


But yeah, kanji can be funny sometimes. I also use the various radicals in order to remember what a kanji means. It actually helps a bit. >.>

japan likes to steal


everything in their language is stolen





katakana exists pretty much exclusively to steal more words

when they aren't groping 12yos they're stealing

virginities

It ain't sexist! It's the truth!

at least hiragana is theirs...I think.

Max Makkusu is my name.

This post has been edited by negasquid on Sep 16 2009, 02:44 AM

katakana IS theirs but it exists only to steal words from elsewhere


also katakana and hiragana are exactly the same, katakana is basically like italics or something


it doesn't really make sense to me that they wouldn't just make some type of italic or bold writing though instead of having to make a seperate alphabet with the exact same syllables

(katakana and hiragana correspond directly)

iirc, they sorta stole the concept of katakana from kanji as well, as they pretty much took some of the radicals/parts from the kanji and converted it into a 2nd hiragana alphabet.

It's not just the language. They pretty much took ideas from just about every other culture, cluster****ed them together, and somehow improve it (depending on how you look at it.)

People have technology? WE'LL JUST COPY THEM, BUT THEN MAKE IT BETTER DESU!

People have Christmas and Valentine's Day? WE'LL INCLUDE THOSE HOLIDAYS IN OUR CALENDERS. AND WHY HAVE JUST VALENTINE'S DAY WHEN WE CAN ALSO INCLUDE WHITE DAY SO MEN CAN GIVE WOMEN CHOCOLATE'S TOO DESU!?!

People have cartoons? WE SHOULD HAVE CARTOONS DESU! LET'S STEAL DISNEY'S IDEAS BY TOTALLY MAKING ALL OF OUR CHARACTERS HAVE BIG EYES DESU!!

People have porn? WE AREN'T JUST GONNA HAVE LESBIAN PORN! WE'LL CREATE PORN TO SUIT ALL FETISHES, INCLUDING PEDOPHILES DESU!!!

Pretty much, they've done nothing but try and copy every other idea known in existence, and improve it to be "better" or to adapt to their "culture", which also happens to apparently become a cluster of other cultures.

One thing they haven't improved: food proportions. It sucks going into a restaurant in Japan, only to find that if it's not japanese food, it's something that's somewhat smaller than it's counterpart.

This post has been edited by Soiyeruda on Sep 16 2009, 04:18 AM

hiragana's appearance is only a mutilated form of chinese characters

katakana is similar too; the only difference is that katakana's even simpler and has more straight lines

but both character sets are, graphically, heavily derived from chinese anyway


In fact, there are some kanji that are simply bigger versions of kana characters.

Those are my favourite kanji.

They're the easiest to remember.

Ya, it shows the filename too, so I can tell too easily. (Anyways, I have known this kanji already anyways, so even without the filename I would know.) You can create a tiny URL or something to hide the filename, or just rename the file.

Comedic genius.

OMG HOWD YOU KNOW U MUST BE LIKE A JAPANESE PERSON OR SOMETHING OMFG SUPA KAWAII DESU

Dude, it's not like it was meant as a test -- and even if it was, I put the answer right there, which kinda defeats the purpose of it really being a test of anyone's Japanese knowledge.

Don't get too proud of yourself, now.

This post has been edited by Mrs. Aforcer on Sep 16 2009, 02:57 PM

and they all made an entire civilization by themselves

true men