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| hombre gordo Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5368 days ago 184 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Portuguese, Korean | Message 1 of 8 14 September 2009 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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I am looking to have one Kanji/vocabulary section in my note book themed on Animals. I would like to group animals systematically and learn their Kanji.
Could anyone offer any suggestions to what animals you think a learner should know? Please add them to my template based on category. Here is what I have thought of so far. 哺乳類 (mammals) 犬（dog）, 猫(cat),馬(horse),牛(cow), 豚(pig), 鹿(dear),熊(bear), 駱駝(camel), ライオン(lion), 虎(tiger), 猿(monkey),鯨(whale) 鳥 (birds) 鶏(chicken), 郭公(cuckoo), 鷹(hawk), 鵬(phoenix) 昆虫 (insects) 蜘蛛(spider), 蝿(fly), 蜂(bee/wasp),蚊(mosquito),ゴキブリ（cockroach）, ムカデ(Mukade - dangerous Japanese centipede/millipede (I don't remember which)) 爬虫類 (reptiles) 鰐(crocodile),トカゲ(lizard), 蛇(snake), 蛙(frog), 甲殻類 (crustacions) 蟹(crab), 蝦（shrimp) 魚 (fish)/sea creatures 金魚(goldfish),蛸(octopus),烏賊（cuttlefish）, etc... (this list could go on forever in a seafood rich country like Japan) 恐竜 (dinosaurs) 覇王竜(T-Rex), 三角竜（triceratops),剣竜(Stegusaurus) 宇宙人 (extraterrestrials) グレイ (grey), ヒト型爬虫類(reptilian humanoid), 火星人(martian), etc... Mythical Animals (maybe create a new category) Please add any animals which you think a language learner (of any language) should know. It doesn't matter if you don't know Japanese. I have translated the names into English as you can see above. You can ever suggest animal names in English. OK, so please recommend essential animals for the language learner. Be sure to group them into categories. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6049 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 2 of 8 15 September 2009 at 3:45am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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Here are some more Japanese ones. I don't know about how useful they are, except that I learned all of them from context(rather than looking up animals to learn). I've used kanji, even where I don't know the kanji myself.
Mammals 雹(panther/leopard) 海豚(dolphin) 驢馬(donkey) 麟(giraffe/qilin) 象(elephant) 犀(rhino) アリク イ(anteater) 兎(rabbit) 狐(fox) 狼(wolf) 鼠(mouse) Birds 燕(swallow) 鴎(seagull) 雀(sparrow) Insects 蜩(cicada) 蟻(ant) Reptiles 亀(turtle) Sea creatures 鰻(eel) 鮭(salmon) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| hombre gordo Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5368 days ago 184 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Portuguese, Korean | Message 3 of 8 15 September 2009 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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Thanks at lot. I will soon have enough new animal Kanji to make my animal themed section in my notebook.
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| ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5568 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian | Message 4 of 8 16 September 2009 at 9:28am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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Do keep in mind, though, that even Japanese people write most animals names in katakana and writing fish kanji is the sort of thing that makes up trivia books. A passive knowledge of the above (and not even all of it) should be sufficient.
By the way, you are far more likely to see 海老 than 蝦. In fact, I have never encountered the latter. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| hombre gordo Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5368 days ago 184 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Portuguese, Korean | Message 5 of 8 16 September 2009 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
I know many of these animals are written with Katakana, but I just want to learn more for the sake of it. Also if I learn the Kanji even for words are usually written with kana alone, it seems to be easier to remember. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yukamina Senior Member Canada Joined 6049 days ago 281 posts - 332 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 6 of 8 17 September 2009 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Here's one I forgot: 鮫(shark)
Thanks, I didn't know that. I haven't read the word, just heard it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Gon-no-suke Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6219 days ago 156 posts - 191 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Japanese, EnglishC2 Studies: Korean, Malay, Swahili | Message 7 of 8 19 September 2009 at 6:33am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
イルカ(dolphin)
烏(crow) 雀(sparrow) 鴨(duck) 鳩(dove) And drop the phoenix!
かぶと虫(beetle) 蝉(cicada) ダニ(mite)
亀(turtle)
No-one (normal) uses kanji names, they are always in カタカナ, like ティラノサウルス &c.
I don't even know what a grey is supposed to be, and I have read a lot of science fiction... Edited by Gon-no-suke on 19 September 2009 at 3:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4920 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 8 of 8 17 January 2018 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
What is the difference between Raion and Shishi? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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