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It's the kanji for mouth. Depending on context, it can be pronounced "kuchi", "guchi", or "kou". That's the big problem with logographic writing systems: there
by ggreer 10y ago
It's the kanji for mouth. Depending on context, it can be pronounced "kuchi", "guchi", or "kou".
That's the big problem with logographic writing systems: there's no connection between the symbol and the sound. Japanese lets you fall-back to phonetic alphabet, but other languages (Chinese) don't have that feature.
Still, that was a fun post to read.
- Gigablah 10y agoNot to mention that the katakana for "ro" looks really similar depending on font: ロ
- tasnent 10y agoBut there's usually context given.
- chaostheory 10y agoIt's also hanzi character for mouth, the Chinese ideograph system that Kanji is derived from
- jpt4 10y agoCuriously, a stereotypical infant directed speech instance that seems distinctly "oral" [0] is the union of those three options: "coo-chee, goo-chee, [k|g]oo". [0] Perhaps only idiosyncratically.