5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (12 January - 16 January 2015)

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 12 January 2015 to 16 January 2015. This week's terminology comes from the NTT IT, NTT Data, KDDI, the Wall Street Journal and the Bank of Japan.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana
Semiconductor	半導体	はんどうたい
Social Media		ソーシャル メディア
Small & Medium Enterprises	中小 企業	ちゅうしょう きごう
Firmware		ファームウェア
Required Reserves	所要 準備額	しょよう じゅんびがく

Notes

• The term for SME (Small & Medium Enterprises), 中小企業, is literally Medium (中) & Small (小) Enterprises (企業). This follows a standard Japanese pattern of sequencing to smaller and smaller units unlike the Western-pattern of building to larger units.  The pattern is most evident in the construction of addresses.

First Kanji

The first Kanji in the main vocabulary is 半. Per jisho.org 半, a JLPT N5 character, means half, middle, odd number, semi-, and part-.

On: なか.ば

Kun: なか.ば

Chinese Pronunciation: Bàn

Telecom Terms

Bug　 Defect or error in software that prevents a program from working properly.
バグ　プログラムが正しく作業する事を妨げるソフトウェア上の欠陥または誤り。

English	日本語
	漢字と仮名	仮名
Bug		バグ
to Hinder	妨げる	さまたげる
Defect	欠陥	けっかん

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This Week's Chinese Terminology

Sources

Wall Street Journal	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk13n1
NTT - IT	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk13n2
NTT Data	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk13n3
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk13n4
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk13n5
Jisho.org, Shirabe Jisho iOS app, 万葉学舎 Youtube Channel, Telecom Terms, AT&T, 1987. p. 17. ISBN 0-932764-13-4.

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