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 If
you've plowed through the first nine lessons, then the
ten characters below should be no problem. They're a
mixture of common simple kanji that didn't really fit
into any of the earlier lessons. In some cases, there
just wasn't enough room to squeeze them in.But
with characters in this lesson, we can read several
common Japanese names, such as Shimizu, Kiyohara,
Hasegawa, Taniguchi and others.
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part |
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water |
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moat |
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clean, pure |
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flat field, origin |
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truth |
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valley |
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match (go well together) |
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autumn |
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tail |
Like
several other h/b kanji we've seen in other lessons, hara/bara
is usually pronounced with an "h" sound when it
is the first or only character in a name; if the second,
it's often spoken with a "b" sound.
Kiyo
usually has just one pronunciation, but when it precedes mizu,
the name is often pronounced Shimizu.
Depending
on its context, tani/ya can form names like Shintani
or Kanaya. But when it is flanked by naga
(Lesson 8) and gawa (Lesson 1), the three
characters form the name "Hasegawa."
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