From: stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE
Subject: Kanji of the day ?77
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:36:54 GMT

KANJI OF THE DAY # 77

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(Numbers indicate order and beginning of strokes)

JIS      = 2022 (serial number)
shiftJIS = 8BCE (hexcode)
NELSON   = 732
MIYAMOTO = 12-34
KUNZE    =

   OnYomi: KIN
  Kunyomi: tsuto(me)   -  duties, service
           tsuto(meru) -  to serve (in an office)
           tsuto(maru) -  to be fit for, to be equal to

Mnemonics:  "Working to keep the Yellow River under control"

Derivation:


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            "Yellow"
    indicated by a fire arrow (arrow point from bottom up
    the lines on top indicate a flame)

Only with a lot of regular labor the YELLOW river can be kept
within its bed.

Compounds:

KIMmu    -  service, duty
KIMben   -  diligence
shukKIN  -  attendance, going to duty
KINrou   -  labor, exertion
KINnou   -  imperialism

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Recently I found two new textbooks for learning Japanese:

"Grundstudium Japanish 1 + 2" from Noriko Katsuki-Pestemer.
     ISBN:3-8018-0090-3 (1991)
Original title is "Japanese for today" but I only have have
the German edition.

The main advantage of this textbook is, that the grammatical terms
are explained using Japanese words (including romanizations and
Kanji).

So we have MEISHI for noun, DOUSHI for verbs, but also JODOUSHI,
KEIJOUDOUSHI, JOSHI, FUKUSHI, KANTOUSHI, SETSUZOKUSHI etc.
European grammatical terms have always been somewhat inappropriate
for the description of Japanese Grammar.

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This is number 0077

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