時々見るNHKのCool Japanで紹介された本 'Ikigai' を読もうと地元の図書館から借りようとしたら、テレビで紹介された 'Ikigai' の正式なタイトルは 'Ikigai The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life' の事だと思いますが、この本は貸し出し中でした。そこで同じ著者(Garcia HectorとMiralles Francescの共著)の 'The IKIGAI Journey A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way' を借りて読むことにしました。
'Ikigai' から引用します。
Creating something new through symbiosis
Before the fourth century, Japanese was non-written language. Instead of creating their own system, the Japanese copied the Chinese writing system based on hanzi characters.
Obviously, the hanzi were not a perfect fit for their language, so they had to change them for what are known today as kanji characters. Two new alphabets even had to be created: hiragana and katakana.
日本の漢字の元の文字が "hanzi characters" ですか。 漢字は英語で "Chinese character" とばっかり覚えていたので以外です。英英辞書を見ても "hanzi" の説明を載せているのはほとんどありませんが、次の説明を見つけました。
・Wiktionary: Borrowed from Mandarin 漢字 (hànzì, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”). Compare Cantonese 漢字 (hon3 zi6), Min Nan 漢字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī) and Japanese 漢字 (kanji). Doublet of hanja, honji and kanji.
・Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of glyphs common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja).
オンライン百科事典のWikipediaには次の説明がありました。
Chinese characters, also called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: Hànzì; lit.: 'Han characters'), are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. They have been adapted to write other Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as kanji. Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world by number of users.
中国語では漢を "han" と発音するのでしょうか？
'Ikigai' から引用します。
Creating something new through symbiosis
Before the fourth century, Japanese was non-written language. Instead of creating their own system, the Japanese copied the Chinese writing system based on hanzi characters.
Obviously, the hanzi were not a perfect fit for their language, so they had to change them for what are known today as kanji characters. Two new alphabets even had to be created: hiragana and katakana.
日本の漢字の元の文字が "hanzi characters" ですか。 漢字は英語で "Chinese character" とばっかり覚えていたので以外です。英英辞書を見ても "hanzi" の説明を載せているのはほとんどありませんが、次の説明を見つけました。
・Wiktionary: Borrowed from Mandarin 漢字 (hànzì, “Han characters”), from Middle Chinese 漢 (xàn, “Han dynasty, China”) + 字 (dzì, “[written] character”). Compare Cantonese 漢字 (hon3 zi6), Min Nan 漢字 (hàn-jī, hàn-lī) and Japanese 漢字 (kanji). Doublet of hanja, honji and kanji.
・Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (From the Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E to 25 C.E.) One of the set of glyphs common to Chinese (where they are called "hanzi"), Japanese (where they are called kanji), and Korean (where they are called hanja).
オンライン百科事典のWikipediaには次の説明がありました。
Chinese characters, also called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: Hànzì; lit.: 'Han characters'), are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. They have been adapted to write other Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as kanji. Chinese characters are the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world by number of users.
中国語では漢を "han" と発音するのでしょうか？
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