Hiragana Page 16 せ se

Try to make silly memory associations for yourself

HOW TO WRITE IT
[Follow the red strokes from left to right]

ROMAJI - se
SOUND - [as in SAY]

MEMORY: It looks like someone wearing a hat SAying something

EXAMPLES: How do you say them?

- This means 'sweat'

- This means 'chair' or 'seat' (another word for seat is isu)

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Submitted by Shredder2 on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 06:41.

Just to be safe, I'll use "seki" for seat, and "isu" for chair.

"I know I'm dead on the surface, but I am screaming underneath."

If "isu" is chair or seat,

Submitted by SakeIt2Me on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 01:01.

If "isu" is chair or seat, and "seki" is chair or seat, is there a difference in usage or are they just interchangeable?

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There seems to be a subtle

Submitted by phreadom on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 02:03.

There seems to be a subtle difference... but I'm not really qualified to try to explain exactly what it is. :/

isu - chair; post; office; position.

seki - seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post.

and it looks like those two words lead into the word chii as well, which means "social position; status".

So while isu means "chair" specifically and leads into those other kind of social status meanings... seki just means a seat in general, and not just a chair specifically? and also leads into the social status meanings... like chii, which just has the social status meanings associated with the other two words.

So you'd use seki for asking things like "where is my seat?" or "Is anyone sitting here?" etc. Whereas you would use isu when asking "where is my chair?" specifically, or "can I have a chair to sit in?" etc.

That's how I interpret it. :P Hopefully someone else can give a better explanation?

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