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Ran-chan
Posts: 8843/12781 |
I like the bottom one the most. I think it |
JDavis
Posts: 579/815 |
Hiragana are used for:
* Japanese words for which there are no kanji, for example particles such as kara から and suffixes such as ~san さん.
* Japanese words for which the kanji form is not known to the writer, not expected to be known to the readers, or too formal for the writing purpose.
* Verb and adjective inflections, for example in tabemashita 食べました (used like this, hiragana are called okurigana 送り仮名 ).
* Giving the pronunciation of kanji for readers who may not know them (used like this, hiragana are called furigana).
Katakana are used for:
* Onomatopoeia, for example hii ヒー means "sigh".
* Names of animal and plant species.
* Transcription of words from non-Chinese foreign languages (called gairaigo). For example, "television" is written terebi テレビ. Foreign phrases are usually transliterated with a middle dot separating the words.
* Emphasis, like italics in English. In this case it can also mean "words spoken by a foreigner", or "with a foreign accent".
* As furigana, giving the pronunciation of a word written in roman characters, or for a foreign word which is written as kanji for the meaning, but intended to be pronounced as the original.
(All hail the great and powerful wikipedia!) |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1239/1574 |
Tamarin Calanis: Yup. Just put in the html code.
Yomiko: It's just for my MSN profile picture and maybe on avatars on some forums. Also: Where should Hiragana be used and where should Katakana be used? |
Prier
Posts: 5764/8392 |
Hiragana huh?...The bottom one, unless you want to follow a more western style, I'd go with the vertical text read aligned to the right somewhere.
That, and I'd wonder what you're going to use it for...if it's not for a letter or something like it. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 4042/8210 |
It is useful. This other site I was looking at seemed pretty inaccurate. (Mainly, I'm assuming, because of Windows problems. I can't type 'wi' or 'we'.  )
Anyway, which one is best depends what you're gonna use it for.  |
Tamarin Calanis
Posts: 427/1802 |
Images can be poll options? When was that implemented? 
Number 2 as they are, but I think it could use a little more spacing. Something between 1 and 2. |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1237/1574 |
Originally posted by Peardian
Wow... Japanese is really complicated to write. Hooray for simplicity!
That's a pretty useful site...
Yeah... it is... I probably should have posted it to start with. |
Peardian
Posts: 527/1696 |
Wow... Japanese is really complicated to write. Hooray for simplicity!
That's a pretty useful site... |
Tarale
Posts: 1660/2720 |
Yes I am happy now, but I have to admit, I didn't like the... tone (if there is such a thing) there with your response. 
But yes, thankyou for giving us the link to the original stuff. It's important that they are credited, and it's a good courtesy to us to let us know as well. |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1236/1574 |
Originally posted by Tarale
Rather than saying you "ripped off the symbols off of some site", how about you link to that site?
After all, if their work has gone into yours (and I'd go as far as to say is the entire basis of yours) don't they deserve to be credited?
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese_hiragana.htm
Happy?
Also: The picture just means Nebetsu in Japanese. |
Peardian
Posts: 526/1696 |
I like choice #2. It looks the best to me. |
Tarale
Posts: 1659/2720 |
Rather than saying you "ripped off the symbols off of some site", how about you link to that site?
After all, if their work has gone into yours (and I'd go as far as to say is the entire basis of yours) don't they deserve to be credited? |
Nebetsu
Posts: 1235/1574 |
Which picture is better? I ripped off the symbols off of some site and made it say Nebetsu. So which one do you like the best? |
