Gabriel Mandel: Japanese Alphabet: The 48 Essential Characters
Скачать книгу (размер 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 148) Аннотация: In the fourth century A.D., through contact with Korea, Japan adopted the Chinese writing system which had been sweeping through Asia along with the new Buddhist religion. Modern Japanese writing uses three main scripts: kanji (Chinese ideograms), which are used for proper names, for nouns, and for verb roots; hiragana (deriving from the terms hira, “common”, and kana “borrowed character”), used…