[OT] Japanese Question

[Mercury]

Could somebody please tell me what the Japanese character looks like for the word grace? If meaning makes a difference, it is not like the prayer grace, but as in graceful movement and such. Thanks.

Mercury

 

[SimonMoon5]

Go here:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1C

Then type in "graceful" and click on "begin search".

This assumes that your web browser is set up to view Japanese text. If you get a bunch of gibberish, you may have to adjust your web browser's settings.

 

[RangerWickett]

Sorry, all I know is the kanji for Tree, Water, Fire, Gold, Sun, Moon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, Yen, Job, Word, Food, Drink, Car, Train, etc. . . .

Nothing really useful for D&D stuff, but it works if you're trying to buy stuff.

 

[Tempuswolf]

Here's a Chinese character dictionary; there are Japanese characters as well.

Hakka Character Dictionary

 

[Tsyr]

Yuubi is about the closest I could come.

 

[RangerWickett]

So, whomight yubbi?

 

[LightPhoenix]

Went to the site above, this is what I got (you'll have to be able to read Japanese characters in your browser):

’[—í

 

[Aaron L]

I need to find a place that has the kanji as well as the English pronounciation alongside the translation. The kanji does me little good if I have to use it as a picture and can't say it.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Alright, doing a little research...

Some basics I know off the top of my head while I search. Pronouncing Kanji isn't a simple thing, as there are often multiple ways of reading and interpreting Kanji. So there isn't one true pronunciation of the Kanji above.

A short summary of what I said - http://www.bus.utexas.edu/~kotabe/EDI/Section2/Language/kanji.html

Grace (above) has it's kana listed as (from site above): ‚½‚ñ‚ê‚¢, which translates to "tanrei" (tah-n-ray-ee).

A side note, a good site for learning and practicing katakana, hiragana, and kanji is: http://www.msu.edu/~lakejess/kanjigame.html. Just do it once a day, it's good reinforcement. Unfortunately I never had the discipline to go through with it.

 

[tleilaxu]

Chinese characters are pronounced differently depending on where you are.