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TUGAS 3 LANGUAGE LEARNING 

MATA KULIAH PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS BERBANTUAN KOMPUTER

In this part will explain about the characters of modern of japanese language are traditionally classified such as pictograms (象形文字), simple ideograms (指事文字), compound ideograms (会意文字), and phono-semantic compounds (形声文字).

1. Pictograms (象形文字) (shōkei moji)

Pictograms used to be primitive drawings.

象形+文字

• 象形 (shōkei) means Hieroglyph.

a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems.

• 文字 (moji) means Letter

Examples:

 

• 日 (hi): day, sun

• 月(tsuki): moon

• 人 (hito): person

• 木 (ki): tree

The difficulty is how to write or carve the kanji that re-presenting a word.

2. Simple Ideograms (指事文字) (shiji moji)

Simple ideograms stem from abstract concepts.

• 指事文字 means Simple ideograms

Examples: 

• 上 (ue): up, above

• 下 (shita): under, below

3. Compound Ideograms (会意文字) (kāi moji)

Compound Ideograms are two or more pictograms together that has one meaning. 

for Examples: 

1. 明 (akarui) means light

• 日 (day, sun)+月(moon)= 明

It resulted from the combination of a window and moonlight coming through it.

2. 森 (mori) means forest

• 木+木+木= 森

4. Phono-semantics Compound (形声文字) (keisei moji)

These characters usually consist of two components, one on which presents the meaning while the other stands for the pronunciation.

Examples: 

in this lesson we are continuing to learn how to do shopping and to start numerals

• で (de): with-

• ふたり (futari): two persons

• さんにん (sannin): three persons 

• ぜんぶ (zenbu): all 

The Quiz: 

there's a little difficult to finish number 11, みせのひとは、どこにいますか？(where is the shopkeeper?), and my answer is あのたなのまえにあります (in front of the shelf). it should be in the back shelf