2021年12月7日 · Here is the text of the Iroha poem, sided with a possible translation (mine): 色は匂えど Iro wa nioedo | Colors, although bright, 散りぬるを Chirinuru wo | Will scatter. 我が世誰ぞ Wa ga yo tare zo | In my world, nobody 常ならぬ Tsune naranu | Is eternal.

2015年1月15日 · I have read on Wikipedia that the Iroha poem has a modern version with updated hiragana and stuff. However, it seems that most times people recite the poem (as in, every time I've seen/heard someone recite it), they use the old pronunciation. If it so happens that I am called upon to recite Iroha, should I use the old or new pronunciation?

The order used today pretty much everywhere is called Gojūon, and this is what Alenanno has described, but there's also a traditional order, with its own song, called Iroha. This order is actually based on the poem (instead of the other way around), and interestingly enough, it is possible because the poem managed to include every letter of ...

2019年9月14日 · The gojūon order is the prevalent system for collating Japanese in Japan. For example, dictionaries are ordered using this method. Other systems used are the iroha ordering, and, for kanji, the radical ordering.

2020年11月10日 · Japanese seems to have multiple ways of enumerating sequences. The basic one is ordinal numbers: Arabic (Indian) numbers like in English: 1,2,3 classic Chinese numbers: 一、二、三 etc. special legal nu...

2019年3月19日 · It also appears as the む in the Iroha poem. Second, the だろ- of だろう is what you get when you conjugate the copula to attach -う and then subject it to some sound changes. The でしょ- of でしょう is the same thing plus a bonus auxiliary verb (-す) …

2015年1月13日 · How would [name]家, for example 田中家, be pronounced when referring to somebody's home in an informal or casual way? I think I've heard it pronounced ち but it could have been うち too. Perhaps both are

2019年6月9日 · So 五十音 is literally "fifty sounds" as in English, but it's a fixed phrase today that only means a specific alphabetical order of kana (there are also others e.g. iroha), and its repertoire. And 音 is indeed a counter for "sound", but as …

2019年6月8日 · @droooze Doubt all you want, but there are languages which do. In all the Scandinavian languages, for example, it would be very unusual to pronounce 0,11% as anything other than nul komma elleve procent (using Danish as an example).