5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (19 January - 23 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 19 January 2015 to 23 January 2015. This week's terminology comes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, NTT East, NEC, Hitachi, and SoftBank.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Connection Fees	接続 料金	せつぞく りょうきん	Setsuzoku Ryōkin
Radio (Electromagnetic) Waves	電波	でんぱ	Denpa
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)	型液晶	かたえきしょう	Kata ekishō
Joint Venture Company	合弁 会社	ごうべん かいしゃ	Gōben Kaisha
to merge	合併 する	がっぺい する	Gappei suru

Notes

• The  term 型液晶 (LCD) is made from 3 characters. 型 (ケイ・かた・がた）meaning (i) type, mold, model or (ii) kind, pattern, form; 液 (えき) meaning liquid; 晶(しょう) meaning crystal .
• The last 2 characters 液晶 (えきしょう) form the term crystalline liquid.
• 合弁会社 translates to joint venture company.  会社(かいしゃ) means company, while 合弁(ごうべん ) means joint management. Hence, a joint venture is a joint management company.
• 合 used above in 合弁会社, also, is present in 合併(がっぺい). The character's individual meanings include combine, unite, join together, and meet.

First Kanji Notes

The first kanji in the main terminology is 接, a JLPT N2 level Kanji.  Per jisho.org the character’s meanings include touch, contact, adjoin, piece together.

Kun: つ.ぐ On: セツ、 ショウ Chinese Pronunciation: jiē

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Sources

NTT East	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk14n1
Ministry for Internal Affairs & Communications	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk14n2
NEC	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk14n3
Hitachi	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk14n4
Softbank	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk14n5
jisho.org, investopedia.com

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