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[Yuki~]

thanks ^___^

[Karin Rengu]

Leave it up to dreams to know anything you ever needed to about japanese! ^_^

[Yuki~]

yeah! ^___^

[Karin Rengu]

Oh yea, speaking of moons does anyone know what Zangetsu (from bleach) acutally means? I get the moon part but what about the other character?
It's written like this 斬月

[Dreams]

斬 = kill, murder

If you stumble across kanji like that, you can plug it into this kanji dictionary here:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi- ... dic.cgi?1B
It'll give you meanings in English, and readings in kana (katakana for the ON readings; hiragana for the KUN readings).

[Yuki~]

Dreams, do you know a site where I can see the 1000 kanji I need for level 2 on Noryokushiken? With it's meaning and reading? Because I'd like to start as soon as possible to study them, but I haven't received the book yet.
(by the way, now I know that I'm the only one who passed on level 3. o__o)

[Dreams]

Yep, right here: http://www.jlptstudy.com/
Has grammar and kanji lists for levels 2, 3, 4.

[Karin Rengu]

Wow! That's so cool! Thanks.

[Yuki~]

Yep, right here: http://www.jlptstudy.com/
Has grammar and kanji lists for levels 2, 3, 4.

Thanks a lot, Dreams ^__^

[Yuki~]

Does "Nantyuu" have a kanji?
* I don't know if writing nantyuu is the correct way, but this was how it was written in the paper we received from japanese school yesterday. XD
*Nantyuu is from Nantyuu Soran by the way XD

[Karin Rengu]

oh yea speaking of kanji, is there a kanji for "arigatou gozaimasu"? I know the kanji for arigatou but i don't know if there's one for the formal

[Yuki~]

if there's a kanji, I don't think people use it.
I've never seen the kanji for arigatou gozaimasu.

[Karin Rengu]

XD Ok just checking thanks!

[Dreams]

Yeah, there's kanji for both words.

Arigatou Gozaimasu
有り難う 御座います
(the り can also be taken out of 'arigatou' -> 有難う)

'Arigatou' is a conjugation of 'arigatai' (有り難い or 有難い) which means 'grateful' or 'thankful'.
But literally, the word 'arigatai' is combined from kanji meaning 有 (have) + 難 (difficulties).

And 'gozaimasu' is the polite version of the honorific verb 'gozaru' (御座る) which means 'to be/to exist'.
(There's a whole set of honorific verbs, like 'meshiagaru' takes the place of 'taberu' (to eat).)
And, 'gozaru' can also be spelled ご座る.
The symbol 御 is the kanji for the honorific prefix 'go-' that gets attached to some words.
(It works like the honorific 'o-' prefix, but they each go on certain words.)

And... and...

At this point, when you've told someone all this information, you sadly realize how geeky you are.

The use of 'arigatou gozaimasu' in kanji isn't too common, but it's not impossible to see it.
There are kanji versions for all the popular words, like 'sayonara' (左様なら)...
And that should actually be spelled 'sayounara', which you'll also sometimes see in kana.
And there are kanji versions for every question word (dare, doko, naze, etc).
Some of these are more commonly used in kanji (dare = 誰) (nani = 何), but the rest are usually in kana.

[Karin Rengu]

At this point, when you've told someone all this information, you sadly realize how geeky you are.

Ok, dreams, I have to yell at you and say WTF? How can you say that?? You are so fluent and you know ALL the kanji. You are NOT geeky, you are a GENIUS ok?

[Dreams]

Knowing a second language ≠ genius.