5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (22 December 2014 - 26 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 22 December 2014 to 26 December 2014. This week's terms come from Fujitsu, KDDI, Hitachi, and the Bank of Japan.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana
Terminal (Computer)	端末	たんまつ
Open Collaboration		オープン な コラボレーション
Storage System	蓄電 システム	ちくでん システム
Price Index	物価 指数	ぶっか しすう
Radio Base Station	無線 基地局	むせん きち きょく

Notes

• The term オープン な コラボレーション (Open Collaboration) comes from two English words - オープン and コラボレーション. The hiragana character between the two words, な , signifies that Open is being used as an adjective modifying Collaboration.
• The Storage System (蓄電システム) noted by Hitachi is a power storage system.  Later in the week Sharp mentioned Battery Storage (蓄電池, ちくでん ち, chikudenchi).

First Kanji

The first Kanji in the post’s main vocabulary is 端, a JLPT N1 character, which means edge, origin, end, point, border, verge, and cape.

	Kun: はし、 は、 はた、 -ばた、 はな On: タン
	Chinese Pronunciation: duān

Telecom Terms

Bit Rate  Speed at which bits are transmitted, usually expressed as “bits per second,” “kilobits per second,” “megabits per second,” or “gigabits per second.”

ビット伝送速度　２進数字が伝送されるときの速度。通常、”ビット数／秒”、”キロ・ビット数／秒”、”メガ・ビット／秒”、Xは”ギガ・ビット／秒”ではかられる。

English	日本語
	漢字と仮名	仮名
Transmission Speed	伝送速度	てんそうそくど

Last Week's Vocabulary | Next Week's Vocabulary

This week's Chinese Terminology

Sources

Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWK10n1
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk10n2 http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk10n5
HITACHI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk10n3
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk10n4
Jisho.org, visualmandarin.com, Telecom Terms. AT&T, 1987. p. 16. ISBN 0-932764-13-4

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