Dōngyáng ( 東洋) and Dōngyíng ( 東瀛) – both literally, "Eastern Ocean" – are Chinese terms sometimes used to refer to Japan exotically when contrasting it with other countries or regions in eastern Eurasia; however, these same terms may also be used to refer to all of East Asia when contrasting "the East" with "the West". The first term, Dōngyáng, has been considered to be a pejorative term when used to mean "Japan", while the second, Dōngyíng, has remained a positive poetic name. They can be contrasted with Nányáng (Southern Ocean), which refers to Southeast Asia, and Xīyáng (Western Ocean), which refers to the Western world. In Japanese and Korean, the Chinese word for "Eastern Ocean" (pronounced as tōyō in Japanese and as dongyang ( 동양) in Korean) is used only to refer to the Far East (including both East Asia and Southeast Asia) in general, and it is not used in the more specific Chinese sense of "Japan". foundation; basis 謙遜 是 美德 之 本。 ／ 谦逊 是 美德 之 本。 ― Qiānxùn shì měidé zhī běn. ― Humility is the foundation of all virtue. PK Keski-Uusimaa fixtures tab is showing the last 100 football matches with statistics and win/draw/lose icons. There are no strict rules for how a word written in kanji translates to reading. There are rule of thumbs, but they do not give a strict indication. At best, they will give you a 40% chance to correctly guess a word's reading from its kanji. Which isn't trivial, but far from reliable. www.chineselanguage.org message board". Chinalanguage.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28 . Retrieved 2011-09-26.

There are also statistics for each player in all competitions with all total played and started matches, minutes played, number of goals scored, number of cards and much more. It is said that Okiku became a vengeful spirit, 怨霊 onryō, who tormented her murderer by counting to nine and then making a terrible shriek to represent the missing tenth plate. お菊 Okiku, by 月岡 芳年 Yoshitoshi Tsukioka. Wan, tsū, surī: counting in Japanese… in English

Sakuragi ends up winning and learns that the captain is none other than Haruko’s older brother: Takenori Akagi. Despite some reluctance, the latter finally lets him join the basketball team. Unfortunately for Hanamichi, the boy Haruko is in love with, Kaede Rukawa, idol of all the girls and the most talented first-year player in the department is also there. 21. CLAYMORE Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Henshū Iin Kai, Shōgakukan Kokugo Daijiten Henshūbu (2002) [2000]. Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (2nded.). Shōgakukan. The choice to wear Nippon shirts resulted in an influx of queries to the Japanese volleyball association about why Japan had chosen this name. However, for people living in Japan, this may seem strange. After all, Japan is an Anglicized version of Japan’s name: Nihon or Nippon and is rarely used by Japanese speaking their native language. It raises the question: why are the names of the country so different? Asking Japanese people about the name of their country will draw mixed responses. Some people will call it “Nippon” while others may refer to it as “Nihon”. Which one is the official name? During the introduction of the series’ plot, one can read “199X”, that is to say, an indeterminate year at the end of the 20th century. In this post-apocalyptic universe, the survivors are either humble villagers trying to survive, or vicious bandits grouped into gangs who loot and persecute the villagers. 30. Rurouni Kenshin

Though Nippon or Nihon are still by far the most popular names for Japan from within the country, recently the foreign words Japan and even Jipangu (from Cipangu, see below) have been used in Japanese mostly for the purpose of foreign branding. After Ippo wakes up to the noises of boxing training, Takamura tries to cheer Ippo by letting him drain his frustrations on a sandbag. The men get the first glimpse of Ippo’s talent for boxing. After this incident, Ippo thinks a lot about the situation and decides that he wants to start a career as a professional boxer.The Japanese system can also be used for a simple count, just like the Chinese system. Hii, fuu, mii: counting fast Historical sound change in Japanese has led to the modern pronunciations of the individual characters as nichi and hon. The pronunciation Nihon originated, possibly in the Kantō region, as a reintroduction of this independent pronunciation of 本 into the compound. This must have taken place during the Edo period, after another sound change occurred which would have resulted in this form becoming Niwon and later Nion. [ citation needed] Doi, Tadao (1980) [1603]. Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-080021-3. The Chinese letters used to spell Nippon translates into “sun” and “origin.” As Japan is known as the country where the sun rises, or “originates,” the translation is fitting due to Japan’s geographic location. Is Nihon Different? This is the native Japanese counting system, and it’s how you count real things. We’ll see some examples in a minute, but first let’s count.

This way of counting is very often interchangeable with “ hitotsu, futatsu, mittsu…” Ippon, nihon, sanbon: counting long cylindrical objects He heard about Japan originally from the Chinese, who would call it ji-pang as it was the country to the East, where the sun rose in the morning. It’s unclear how the name got narrowed down to just Japan, but this is where the name originated from. Tokyo’s City Skyline At Dawn How Long Has Japan Been Known As Nippon? You can pretty much use the Japanese counting system with any object or concept, but never with people, animals, time and money.Nihon means the same thing as Nippon. Since dialects and sounds change in language as time passes, Nihon seems to be a more current pronunciation of the name Nippon. In China, Japan is called Rìběn, which is the Mandarin pronunciation for the characters 日本. The Cantonese pronunciation is Yahtbún [jɐt˨ pun˧˥], the Shanghainese pronunciation is Zeppen [zəʔpən], and the Hokkien pronunciation is Ji̍tpún / Li̍t-pún. This has influenced the Malay name for Japan, Jepun, and the Thai word Yipun ( ญี่ปุ่น). The terms Jepang and Jipang, ultimately derived from Chinese, were previously used in both Malay and Indonesian, but are today confined primarily to the Indonesian language. The Japanese introduced Nippon and Dai Nippon into Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation (1942–1945) but the native Jepang remains more common. In Korean, Japan is called Ilbon ( Hangeul: 일본, Hanja: 日本), which is the Korean pronunciation of the Sino-Korean name, and in Sino-Vietnamese, Japan is called Nhật Bản (also rendered as Nhựt Bổn). In Mongolian, Japan is called Yapon (Япон). In 2016, element 113 on the periodic table was named nihonium to honor its discovery in 2004 by Japanese scientists at RIKEN. [30] Jipangu [ edit ] Another spelling, "Zipangri" (upper left), was used on a 1561 map by Sebastian Münster. [31] For sports fans, when the Japanese women’s volleyball team played their Chinese rivals for the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics, it culminated in an amazing Olympics for volleyball in Asia. However, for language fans like myself, the one thing that was as exciting as the game was the outfit worn by the Japanese athletes: their outfits said ‘Nippon’ instead of ‘Japan’. To understand why the country is called Nippon or Nihon, it takes some understanding of the Japanese language and how the Japanese language is written.

This may be irrelevant to today's generations, but for those of us who remember the death of Showa Tenno, there are similarities to the "to hell with Hirohito, he finally died" sentiment that some older people who remembered the second world war and POW atrocities with the anti-empire and anti-colonial sentiment of some of those who feel that Elizabeth Rex represented the continuation of the colonizations of Britian from before the second world war over the British Empire, upon which the sun never set. I hold Showa Tenno and Queen Elizabeth in high regard, and found their personal lives as great examples of courage and individuality as I was growing up. I am curious to find out how the future generations of the imperial families add to the prestige of these historical families and how long before either Japan or Great Britian do away with their respective imperial families. -1In Japanese, countries whose "long form" does not contain a designation such as republic or kingdom are generally given a name appended by the character 国 ("country" or "nation"): for example, ドミニカ国 ( Dominica), バハマ国 ( Bahamas), and クウェート国 ( Kuwait). If you are playing 鬼ごっこ onigokko (hide-and-seek), or you are about to launch a missile, then this is how you count to ten. This also constitutes the basis of the Chinese counting system. Ganbare Nippon! (A sporting cheer used at international sporting events, roughly, 'do your best, Japan!') Schafer, Edward H. (1989), "Fusang and Beyond: The Haunted Seas to Japan", Journal of the American Oriental Society 109.3: 379, 394.