Hiragana Page 03 う u

Oni's picture

As we build the number of characters learned we will increase the vocabulary as well

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

ROMAJI - u
SOUND
- [as in fOOd]


MEMORY: It looks like a nose and an opened mouth looking for fOOd


EXAMPLES: How do you say them?
- This means "to meet"

- This means "to say"

Later we will see that sometimes this character is used to make characters longer in pronunciation - keep that in mind, but don't worry, be happy

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mininatty's picture

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I can't hear the sounds. Can someone please help?

Necessity is the mother of ingenuity, right? In Greek mythology Ananke is the primeval god of necessity and with her mate Kronos , primeval god of time, they split the egg that contained the world. So in theory ingenuity = the world :D

phreadom's picture

Do you have the latest

Do you have the latest version of Flash installed?

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Make sure that's up to date and then give it another try. Let me know if you're still having problems. :)

Sistema_GokuderaXIII's picture

Face

It looks like a half smiling face.lol

Deathofme's picture

言うー話す u just need to know

言うー話す u just need to know thoses 2 & the diff. between the 2.

aint seen the others used commonly, well, not during my trip to japan and w/ my japanese friends there.

+僕の日本ゆめ+

celticflower's picture

'Speak' or 'Say'?

Argh! Why can’t everything match up! The wonder and frustrations of language I suppose! My text books is claiming that いう is ‘speak’ and TJP and my dictionary 居う [I used JWPce software to convert to Kanji], claim it’s ‘to say’ or ‘say’ respectively. I’m happy to go with TJP and the dictionary, but how much does the slight difference matter? Is it just a matter of preference or tense? Is the more formal ‘speak’ used just to be on the safe side? Bear in mind I’m lousy at grammar so make explanations easy to follow ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_qu...

Or am I running in circles until I melt? Probably over thinking things at this point huh? :-)

Valatunda's picture

From WWWJDIC 言う(P); 云う; 謂う

From WWWJDIC

言う(P); 云う; 謂う 【いう(P); ゆう(P)】 (v5u) (1) to say; (2) to call (i.e. to give a name); (P)

話す 【はなす】 (v5s,vt) to speak; (P)

Oo

Yeah, but it also looks like an ordinary 'U' just rotated to the side.

strakitty's picture

u

looks like a misprinted 5

Ooh

Looks like a person carrying something heavy on his back "oooo this is heavy!"

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