5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (23 February - 27 February 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

The technology, telecommunication and finance terms selected for this weeks vocabulary expansion exercise come from the Bank of Japan, NEC, Fujitsu, NTT Docomo, and Softbank. The notes expand on 2 terms of the week and make use of Softbank's Fiscal Year 3rd Quarter presentation to present a few more finance terms from the telecoms company.

English	Japanese			Read the Word in Action Short Source URL
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Profits / Returns	収益	しゅうえき	Shūeki	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n1
Virtualization Technology	仮想化 技術	かそう か ぎじゅつ	Kasō-ka gijutsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n2
Dividend	配当	はいとう	Haitō	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWK19n3
Database		データベース	Dētabēsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n4
Verizon		ベライゾン	Beraizon	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n5

Notes:
During the week Softbank's subsidiaries declared a dividend (配当). As such it seemed an opportune time to review Softbank's 3QFY2014 earnings announcement (English | 日本語 ) to learn another 10 more terms from page 8 of the presentation. The great thing is that translation of terms may be done mostly through a stare-and-compare of the table from page 8.

Item Number on Page 8	English	Japanese
		Kanji	Kana	Romanji
1	Summary		サマリー	Samari
2	Consolidated Operating Results	連結業績	れんけつ ぎょうせき	Renketsu gyōseki
3	Net Sales	売上高	うりあげだか	Uriagedaka
4	Operating Income	営業利益	えいぎょう りえき	Eigyō rieki
5	Temporary Gains	時益除く	ときます のぞく	Tokimasu nozoku
6	Net Income	純利益	じゅん りえき	Jun rieki
7	100 million	億	おく	Oku
8	Trillion	兆	ちょう	Chō
9	Change	増減	ぞうげん	Zōgen
10	YoY (Year-on-Year) literal translation previous period comparison	前期比	ぜんき ひ	Zenki-hi

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This Week's Chinese Terminology

Sources:

Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n1
NEC	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n2
Softbank	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWK19n3
Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n4
ntt docomo	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk19n5

5 Chinese Words from Last Week's News (16 February 2015 to 20 February 2015)

从上个星期的新闻学五个中文生词

This time around we have 5 Chinese terms from the domains of technology, telecommunications, and finance from press releases by CHT, Huawei, FET, and the National Communications Commission.

English	Chinese
	汉字	Pinyin
Non-Executive Director	非执行董事	Fēi zhíxíng dǒngshì
Mobile Commerce	行動商務 (traditional) 行动商务 (simplified)	Xíngdòng shāngwù
Value Added Services	加值服務	Jiā zhí fúwù
Cable Television	有線電視 (traditional) 有线电视 (simplified)	Yǒuxiàn diànshì
Chief Information Officer	資訊長 (Taiwan)	Zīxùn zhǎng

Hanzi in the Main Terminology

破 pò	产 chǎn
营 yíng	业 yè	成 chéng	本 běn
常 cháng	务 wù		理 lǐ	事 shì
交 jiāo	互 hù	式 shì
	语 yǔ	音 yīn	应 yìng	答 dá
流 liú	量 liàng	变 biàn	现 xiàn

Notes

• A non-executive director (非执行董事) may be compared with an executive director (执行董事).
• Taiwan's National Communication Commission used the term 資訊長 for Chief Information Officer (CIO). However, mainland press releases tend to use 首席信息官 (shǒuxí xìnxī guān) for CIO. Here are several more C-level positions and their translations.

English	Chinese
	汉字	Pinyin
Chief Financial Officer	首席财务官	Shǒuxí cáiwù guān
Chief Executive Officer	首席执行官	shǒuxí zhíxíng guān
Chief Technical Officer	首席技术官	shǒuxí jìshù guān
Chief Marketing Officer	首席营销官	shǒuxí yíngxiāo guān
Chief Operations Officer	首席运营官	shǒuxí yùnyíng guān

• The character 官 means officer holder in the above cases. It, also, can mean government official.

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This Week’s Japanese Terminology

Sources

Huawei	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWK17n1
CHT	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk17n2
FarEasTone	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk17n3
National Communications Commission	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk17n4 http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk17n5
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