| Chapter 1 How about NIHON-GO(Japanese lauguage). Chapter 2 How about Japanese letters Kan-ji(means Chinese characters) Ideographs of ancient Chinese origin that are still used in China, Korea, and Japan and were formerly used in other areas influenced by Chinese culture such as Vietnam. Chinese characters are ideographs in that essentially each caracter or graph symbolizes a single idea and, by extension, the sound (i.e., spoken word or morpheme) associated with that idea. In Japan, Chinese characters are used in combination with the Japanese phonetic script known as KANA. Although any word can be written in the phonetic script, words of Chinese characters alone as in Chinese, one character per Chinese syllabel; however, the Japanese pronunciations of these Chinese syllables are often bisyllabic. In writing native Japanese words, Chinese characters are used either singly or in combination to indicate the meaning and, by association, the sound of the word. In the case of influected words, the Chinese character or characters represent the stem of the word, inflectional suffixes being added in the phonetic script. Thus in Japanese a number of pronunciations are possible for most characters, the choice being dictated by context.(above text was quotate from Japan Encyclopedia, published by Kodan-sha) Kana General term for a number of syllabic writign systems developed in Japan, all based on Kan-ji, used to express the sounds of Japanese rather than the meanings of individual words. The etymology of Kana is Kari(temporary or nonofficial or nonregular) plus Na(name or writing), an expression of the feeling that the use of Chinese characters not for their meaning but for their pronunciation was ":not regular.": Since kana can express all the sound of Japanese, the language can be written entirely in kana; the Chinese characters are used to express the meanings of most words (from which the pronunciation can be inferred) and the kana to write inflectional endings, grammatical particles, and certain words officially designated not to be written in characters. Two sets of kana are used in the present-day Japanese writing system: hiragana, a cursive from (and the one commonly used for native words and any words of Chinese origin not to be written in characters), and katakana, a noncursive form. The letter can be used in place of hiragana, but it is most typically used to write Loanwords from other languages, for emphasis, or for representation of onomatapoeic words, thus performing functions similar to the use of italics in Western orthography. Both katakana and hiragana derive from an earlier set of kana known as manyohgana, and hiragana in particular derives form of manyohgana known sohgana. Katakana In the modern, standard form, katakana is a system of 48 syllabic writing units for writing non-Chinese loanwords, onomatopoeia, emphasized words, and the names of flora and fauna. The kata in katakana means ":partial,": ":not whole,": ":fragmentary.": It is so named because many of the katakana are a part and a not the whole of a Chinese character. In its earlier stages, katakana was used as a mnemonic device for pronouncing Buddhist tests written in Chinese. Next appeared Japanese texts written in a mixture of Chinese characters and katakana. This writing system is called kanamajiri bun (sentences mixing kana and characters). By the middle of the 10th century, anthologies of Japanese verse(waka) came to be writtten in katakana and by the 12th century collections of folktales came to be written in a mixture of Chinese characters and katakana/ Hiragana In its modern, standard form, hiragana is a system of 48 syllabic writing units for writing indigenous Japanese words and often for Chinese loanwords that cannot be written with the 1,945 characters officially approved for general use. Hira means ":commonly used,": ":easy,":, ":rounded.":. HIragana is so named because the letters are considered rounded and easy to write compared with the full forms of the original Chinese characters. In its early forms hiragana was used by women, while the unsimplified Chinese characters were used by men; for this reason, the earliest hiragana was also called onnade (women's hand). By the end of the 9th century onnade cased to be a system limited to women and became an accepted device for recording poems. Hiragana gained full acceptance when the imperial poetic anthology Kokin wakashu was written in onnade Chapter 3 |
| What have mean of my name? | |
 | NO is my family name. NO means a feeld or a plain or wild. |
| @ | MASAHARU is my name. This name has 2 characters. |
 | Masa(Katsu) Masa means win. |
 | Haru(Ji) Haru means rule or govern or manage or suppress. |