Going to Tokyo first time

[cracauer@]

Whatever you do, don't visit a guitar store. You'll end up with great, unique guitars shipped to your home. Even the shipping packaging is art.

 

[T-Aoki]

Also, many kanji are simpllified from a Chinese kanji. For example, ki, energy. It's pronounced Chi in Chinese.. Japanese write it as

気.​

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In Chinese 氣​

It would be 繁体字 (Traditional Chinese) mainly used in Taiwan ROC, while People's Republic of China uses 簡体字 (Simplified Chinese) that is simpler than Kanji used in Japan (Shinjitai or Japanese new character forms). In Simplified Chinese, it should be 气 (U+6C14).

 

[loveydovey]

So complicated! It's pretty difficult for speakers of indoeuropean family of languages to learn tonal languages. It's just sooo unusual for our brains to say things in various tones that carry no meaning other than to modify the character/word meaning. I guess Japanese is pretty tonal too, it has some high-low pitch/accents thing, which is basically tonal. Whyyyyyy. It's so unnatural to our voice boxes.

Bigger question - if your tones are used to differentiate various characters/words, how do you express tones of speech that come from emphasis and emotion? Like, in English you can say "My God" in different ways (that are kind of like tones) to express various emotion. How do you do that in Japanese or Chinese? You can't. So sad. So what do you do??

But there's nothing more superior than Mochi ice cream. No one. Will. Understand. Who has not yet got up and run to their Japantown supermarket and acquired this asap. It is the most incredible desert in the history of the universe. Do Japanese people even understand people live their entire lives and die having never tried mochi? What a crime against humanity.

 

[Charlie_]

Japanese write it as

気.​

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In Chinese 氣​

It hasn't even been 100 years yet.

Tōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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