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The yen ( Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar and the euro. [2] It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the euro.
Japanese orthography. Japanese text is written with a mixture of kanji, katakana and hiragana syllabaries. Almost all kanji originated in China, and may have more than one meaning and pronunciation. Kanji compounds generally derive their meaning from the combined kanji. For example, Tokyo ( 東京) is written with two kanji: "east" ( 東 ...
Kanji Furutachi (Japanese: 古舘 寛治, Hepburn: Furutachi Kanji, born 23 March 1968 in Osaka) is a Japanese actor. Career [ edit ] Born in Sakai, Osaka , Furutachi traveled to New York in his twenties to study acting at the HB Studio under Uta Hagen .
Braille Kanji ( Japanese: 漢点字, Hepburn: Kantenji, lit. Chinese dot characters) is a system of braille for transcribing written Japanese. It was devised in 1969 by Tai'ichi Kawakami (川上 泰一), a teacher at the Osaka School for the Blind [ ja], and was still being revised in 1991. It supplements Japanese Braille by providing a means ...
Japanese Braille is the braille script of the Japanese language. It is based on the original braille script, though the connection is tenuous. In Japanese it is known as tenji (点字), literally "dot characters". It transcribes Japanese more or less as it would be written in the hiragana or katakana syllabaries, without any provision for ...
The dialects (方言, hōgen) of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including modern capital Tokyo) and Western (including old capital Kyoto ), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa ...
Kanji characters for shodō (書道) Japanese calligraphy (書道, shodō), also called shūji (習字), is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Written Japanese was originally based on Chinese characters only, but the advent of the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries resulted in intrinsically Japanese ...
