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Japanese calligraphy | Japanese name translation | Kanji name translation | Japanese symbols for names
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There are said to be about 50,000 kanji characters in existence, of which a literate Japanese adult will be able to recognize about 3,500. Out of these 1,945 are officially recognized as "everyday" or jouyou kanji, and knowledge of about 1,000 kanji symbols is considered sufficient to read about 90% of the words in a Japanese newspaper.
Each Japanese "alphabet" has a particular function. Kanji are complex symbols called pictograms, meaning they convey information in a pictorial form. Kanji characters are used in the Japanese language to provide the root and core meaning of most nouns, adjectives and verbs. Hiragana symbols are often added after kanji as grammatical modifiers. For example, the Japanese kanji symbol for "eat" could be modified to mean "to eat", "ate" or "eating" by changing the hiragana characters that follow it:
Kanji symbols are also used to write names in Japanese. All Japanese family names and most Japanese first names are written in kanji. The kanji used in family names are often connected with natural phenomena. Common family names such as Matsuda (pine tree + field), Ishikawa (stone + river) or Nakata (middle of + a field) reveal Japan's agrarian past. The kanji characters used for Japanese first names are usually chosen for their meaning or based on a numerological interpretation of the number of brush strokes required to write them.
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