10 August 2013

Japanese Culture: 'Chestnut' in Japanese

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Chestnut in Japanese is kuri (coo-ree).  Above is the way to write it in hiragana - the phonetic alphabet for Japanese.  

Kanji is the form of writing where one image can mean a word or concept.  

Below is the kanji for kuri. 



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