11 December 2009

新

The Kanji on the title is this year's kanji. "Xin" or "Arata" in Japanese but it means "new" in English. This is because many things changed this year, I think. New President of the United States Barack Obama, new prime minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama, new record of Ichiro, new influenza "H1-N1" and so on.


The Kanji of the year have started in 1995 and the Kanji announce on every 12th December but this year the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society announced it on 11th December. This is because 12th December is Saturday. The Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society choose Kanji of the year. There are some other list for the Kanji of the year I heard. For example, "薬" it means drug and this is because many celebrities were arrested because of using drug in this year.


I heard that Taiwan and China hold similar event "Kanji of the year", but I don't know the result of these ones... lol
If you know, please tell me.


Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!
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Posted by Masaya at 23:24

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