In Japanese wording "Katsudon". What does it means by "don" in old Chinese meaning according to its Kanji.
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"丼 【どんぶり】(donburi) (n) porcelain bowl; bowl of rice with food on top" \n\n'Katsudon' is a contraction of 'tonkatsu donburi' (tonkatsu means a cut of pork).  In 'katsudon' the 'donburi' kanji is read simply as 'don'.
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there are *three* different words,\n\n"ryuu" is the most common - it comes from the Chinese word long2.\n\n"tatsu" is the native Japanese word that is rarely used anymore.\n\n"doragon" is borrowed from English and is used whenever refering to a western style dragon.
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I am Japanese.\nHowever I can not read the letter(horizontal picture is correcte).\n\nI think its not correct Chinese either.
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神 is the correct Chinese character for "god".  It is roughly pronounced "shen".\n\nThere are a number of various usages, because the Chinese believe or have believed in various kinds of gods.
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Chinese (Pinyin) and Japanese have syllabyls as well. Type in the alphabets of the cound and the words come out. You just have to choose each word from there. \n\nFor example, the sound "bao"in chinese can mean bun, run, hug, explode, thin etc...typing bao just gives you the options of choosing the word. Japanese is even easier as it can be written in alphabets...\n\nMore mind boggling is the fact that the same word in Chinese and Japanese can mean different things even though it is the same character!
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In Japanese, it is a Sensai.\nIn Korean, it is a Sa Bom.\n\nSpecific arts may have certain other terms, but those are two big ones.
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The pictures are upside down, but they are as follows: \nPicture 1: Yasushige (Probably the name of the original owner)\nPicture 2: Showa jyugo nen  roku gatsu kichi jitsu. (in Japanese that's- 昭和 十五年六月吉日）\n\nIt means, "Showa 15th year 6th month a good day!"\n The period of the emperor's reign, is one way the Japanese measure the passing of time, and each reign marks a period in their history (jidai=時代), so we know that this "Showa period" or emperial reign was in it's 15th year and 6th month at the time this sword was inscribed. \nThe Showa jidai was the period of WWII , so we know that this was most likely a sword carried by one of the Japanese soldiers.\n\n靖繁 = Yasushige = Owners name (Probably)\n昭和＝Showa= The name of that particular Emperial reign\n十= jyu = 10\n五= go = 5\n年= nen = year\n六　= roku = 6\n月= gatsu = month\n吉日= kichi jitsu = good day\n   \n In English: \nYasushige.\nJune, 1940\nA good day!
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well, it depends very much on the intonation. \n\ntai - it could mean too, very or it could mean table or stage. Tai also means Thailand.\n\nI would like to see the actual Chinese character to answer this correctly.
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我的母亲名孙庄，今年四十三岁，是一个科学家。父亲名孙二庄，四十六岁，是一位律师。我的哥哥是郑家庄，他在台湾教书，弟弟二十岁，名叫毛泽中，是个共产主意者。我还有一个妹妹，她名叫李娴庄，她在Samsung工作。而我呢？我今年二十一岁，是日本，韩国及台湾的皇帝。\nThat's the best I can do for you, but I think you are really ridiculous! Oh, and the names, I'm not sure if those are the exact words. Good Luck!\nOh, boy, it seems that you can only see a bit of the translation, I'll try to mail you the rest.
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It is old English. check merriam-webster dictionary.com
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No, in terms of script and language no.\n\nThe Japanese Writing Language in whole consists of 3 different sets of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  Though Hiragana and Katakana are basically the same phonetic letters, they are spelled differently in their sets to distinguish original words from borrowed words.\n\nHiragana is the curved phonetic script that is used for most of the language for japanese-domestic words like you (anata) or me (watashi) (note: "anata" and "watashi" are romanji, romanized-letter style of dictating japanese, not as great as usage of the hira/kata style). \n\nKatakana is the straight phonetic script that is used for "borrowed words" from other countries (mostly USA) and sounded onomatopeicly, like hotel would be "ho-te-ru" and the US would be "A-Me-Ri-Ka".\n\nKanji are ideograph characters that are borrowed from Chinese characters (in the Simplified Chinese set, not Traditional). They stand to be used as substitutes for words in japanese that are objects or ideas for the most part. (The symbol for Tokyo 東京 is really the kanji for "Too-Ky-Yoo".) However, Hiragana and Katakana can be used in place of Kanji with no misunderstanding. Kanji is more substitute fillers.\n\nSidebar: Hirugana are the little scripts that are beside Kanji words in educational books. This helps the student familiarize themselves with the sounding of the word and memorization of the Kanji.\n\n\n\nBy Contrast, Chinese Characters, or Hanzi, is made of of nothing but tens of thousands of ideograph characters. Originally, the characters were pictures that evolved into pictographs and eventually into ideographs, for the meaning.  A meaning or work could be as simple as one character (car=車, or che) or as long as the meaning goes (WMD = 大規模毀滅性武器 daguimo huimiexing wu qi). Hanzi is all about memorizing, to know the words. But the characters do not give you an idea of what the word sounds like. Thats where Pinyin and Zhuyin come in.\n\n\nOriginally, to understand what the character sounds is, one would use the Zhuyin phonetic system. Like the hiragana phonetic system (where all script letters represent sounds like ka, no, ru), the Zhuyin (or BoPoMoFo) system is script letters that represent sounds that are used to make up the combined sound of a letter. (mom would be ㄇㄚㄇㄚˋ, or MAMa)\nEarly school children were originally taught this system first to familiarize themselves with the sounds, and towards high school just memorize the sounds that go with the character (to the point of innate skills). Taiwan and certain countries still embrace this method limitedly, because alot use Pinyin instead.\n\nPinyin is a different school of chinese phonetics. It uses roman letters instead of Zhuyin script to garner the sounds (similar to Romanji for japanese). This was developed so more of the West would be able to learn chinese without trying to use the Zhuyin system. (like Mom would be Mama, sorta).  Mainland China embraces the Pinyin system (as well as simplified text, where Kanji most resembles).\n\n\nIn summary, Japanese and Chinese do not share the same script, but originally, like most SouthEast Asian countries (*cough* Korea) Japan borrowed a large portion of the characters from China and heavily evolved it into the hiragana, katakana, and kanji sets of today. Chinese still stems into two schools of writing, with the Simplified Hanzi, and the Traditional Hanzi.
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In Japanese alphabet: Jeanさんは僕のことを大好き?！\n大好き~大好き~Jeanのことを大好き~!\n\nEnglish: Jean do you REALLY love me?! I love you, I love you, I really love Jean~!\n\nThe original Japanese phrase itself has a weird grammar, but I guess it'll work. To me the sentences can be a bit shorter, it feels a bit redundant.\n\nWell I suppose it won't matter much since it looks very informal and personal anyways :P
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It should be 고궁나들이, not 고궁나드리. It means "an outing to old palace" 고궁 means an old palace, and 나들이 means an outing.
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In Japanese "akachan" means "baby".\n\nLiterally "cute little red thing".
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There's actually an answer to this question, the problem is, it doesn't translate into English. The answer is "Mu" (in Japanese,  Wú orMou in Chinese). It's used as a response to certain koans and other questions in Zen Buddhism, intending to indicate that the question itself was wrong.
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俺の勝ちだ (ore no kachi da)  or 俺の勝ち (ore no kachi) will do.\n\nThere's also やった (yatta) which means "I did it!"  It's used like "I win" or "Yes!" too.  Do you remember Chun Li in Street Fighter 2 (Well, you may be too young).  She used to say that a lot whenever she won.
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福 (pronounced "fu")\n\nthis character represents luck, good fortune, usually seen pasted everywhere on large red banners around the time of lunar new year.  this character, in essence, is also used in korea and japan on lunar new year celebrations.