Japan 日本 - 日 is the sun
Makes sense, since Japan's name in Japanese means "sun's origin," a reference to the fact that the sun rises there before anywhere else in Asia. What does 本 mean in this context?
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Japan 日本 - 日 is the sun
Makes sense, since Japan's name in Japanese means "sun's origin," a reference to the fact that the sun rises there before anywhere else in Asia. What does 本 mean in this context?
本 is typically a more formal way of expressing "this," but in this context it's closer to "source" or "origin."
Japan's name uses the same characters in both Chinese and Japanese, but is pronounced differently: "ri ben" in Chinese and "ni hon" in Japanese.
I attempted to learn Mandarin in 2019, at first with Duolingo with an aim to find more robust resources along the way. I had to stop because I couldn't distinguish among the characters. I've looked for resources for learning Mandarin in braille but can't find any.
I really enjoyed what I did learn though. It's such a laconic language, and I've nabbed some grammar here and there for one of my conlangs.
I've always found it mildly xenophobic that basically 0 nations refer to any other nation by what that nation refers to itself as.
What about Brazil? What impression did you have?
Is there an equivalent name for "the americas"? Its more like a region or whatever.
The continent of America is called 美洲, as in "the beautiful continent"
美洲
洲 is for continent I think
北美洲 North America
南美洲 South America
OP, what do the names for Brazil and Peru mean?
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In China I replied "New Zealand" when someone asked where I was from. Complete blank stare... A friend of mine said something like "Nova Zelandia" which was immediately understood