{"id":245,"date":"2006-05-28T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T02:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/245-fascinating-facts-about-the-japanese-language"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:43:07","slug":"fascinating-facts-about-the-japanese-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/245-fascinating-facts-about-the-japanese-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Facts about the Japanese Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/japanese.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 220px; height: 240px\" title=\"Japanese\" \/>The Japanese writing system is very complex.\u00a0 In a most basic manner, it can be broken down into three separate facets: Hiragana, Kanji, and Katakana.\u00a0 Before the fourth century, the Japanese language did not exist.\u00a0 Then, the Japanese began to incorporate bits of the Chinese script and developed a hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>Kanji are the characters of Chinese origin.\u00a0 They are most likely the most complicated and difficult of the Japanese script.\u00a0 The Chinese ideograms used by Kanji are used to represent an entire concept or idea rather than a single sound.\u00a0 Kanji is often used to express the names of people, the names of places, and many nouns.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBoth Hiragana and Katakana are syllabic scripts.\u00a0 Modern Japanese also incorporates romaji, which are Roman letters and eimoji, which is English script.\u00a0 Katakana is angular, contains forty-six distinctly different characters, and is used to express almost any sound.\u00a0 Quite often, Katakana is used for foreign names, foreign words, new words, and company names.<\/p>\n<p>Hiragana is not as angular as Katakana, but rather, is smoother and contains many curves.\u00a0 Many of the characters, however, appear to be similar to each other.\u00a0 Hiragana is used to express particles of speech, simple words, and verb conjugation endings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese writing system is very complex.\u00a0 In a most basic manner, it can be broken down into three separate facets: Hiragana, Kanji, and Katakana.\u00a0 Before the fourth century, the Japanese language did not exist.\u00a0 Then, the Japanese began to incorporate bits of the Chinese script and developed a hybrid. Kanji are the characters of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}