c. KANJI : Kanji came from China, each kanji represents a symbol of
word, and some kind of Kanji can be combined to form a new symbol of
word. Kanji has more than 2000 different shapes. I guess I'll never
memorize all of this kind of letter, LOL.
I heard that ancient Japanese and Chinese communicated by using Kanji
because it has the same meaning in both China and Japanese though it's
spelled differently. For example, when a Japanese want to say "man",
he'd write this kind of Kanji : 人, it's spelled "hito" (Japanese word
for "man"). The Chinese would understand. In Chinese it's spelled
"ren", either means "man".
Here's some examples of Kanji
花=hana (flower)
日= hi (day/sun)
月= tsuki (moon)
明るい = akarui (bright)
明日=ashita/asu (tomorrow)
火= hi (fire)
木=ki (tree)
森=mori (forest)
人= hito (people)
人々=hito bito (people)
Loo at the samples above, Japanese word of sun/day is similar to
fire. If we write those word in hiragana, there will be distortion.
From this we learn the true function of Kanji, describing words
perfectly. I also write combined Kanji above, if "moon" and "sun" are
combined, it will form "bright"; "forest" is consist of many "tree"s;
and "tomorrow" in Kanji means "bright"+" day". Now you're ready to
learn any other Kanji, pay attention because there are some of Kanjis
have almost similar form.
d. ROMAJI: Romaji is Roman alphabet we usually use in writing, A,B,C, D,..etc.
Now we're finishing aour topic about Japanese letter…Next, we'll learn
Japanese grammar.