5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (1 December 2014 - 5 December 2014)

5 Japanese Words from this Week's News

今週のニュースから五つ日本語の言葉

5 Japanese words to build one's vocabulary culled from the week's news for 1 December 2014 to 8 December 2014.This week's sources are words from Softbank, NTT, KDDI, and Fujitsu.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Corporate Tablet	法人向け タブレット	ほうじんむけ タブレット	Hōjin-muke Taburetto
Semiconductor		セミコンダクター	Semikondakutā
Bonds (the financial instrument)	社債	しゃさい	Shasai
Satellite	衛星	えいせい	Eisei
Solar Power	太陽 光発電	たいよう ひかりはつでん	Taiyō hikarihatsuden

First Kanji

The first Kanji in the main vocabulary is 法, a JLPT N3 character, which means method, law, rule, principle, model, and system.

On:ホウ、 ハッ、 ホッ、 フラン	Kun: のり
Chinese Pronunciation:  fǎ

Notes

法人向け is built from 法人 (Corporation) and the suffix 向け.

• The suffix 向け means intended for. Thus, intended for corporation becomes corporate. (See here for more on the grammar use.)
• It is interesting that before the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the free-speech rights of corporations - at least during elections - was equal to the free-speech rights of individuals the Japanese language had come to a similar conclusion.  法人 is created from 2 characters -- 法 meaning law/legal and 人 meaning person.

A homonym for 衛星   (えいせい,  satellite) is 衛生 (えいせい, health).

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Sources

Softbank	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk7n1
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk7n3
Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk7n2
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk7n4
NTT	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk7n5
Jisho.org, investopedia.com, visualmandarin.com

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