5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (2 February - 6 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

I pulled 5 Japanese language terms in the domains of technology, telecoms, and finance from press releases of NTT Communications, NTT Software, KDDI, Hitachi, and the Bank of Japan for the purpose of enhance one's vocabulary in these fields.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Productivity Improvement	生産性 向上	しょうさんせい こうじょう	Shōsansei kōjō
Business Intelligence (BI)		ビジネスインテリジェンス (BI)	Bijinesu interijensu
Sales Volume (Net Sales)	売上高	うりあげだか	Uriagedaka
Femto Cell		フェムトセル	Femutoseru
Commercial Bank	都銀	とぎん	Togin

First Kanji

The first Kanji in the main terminology is 生, a JLPT N5 character, which according to jisho.org has meanings of life, genuine, and birth.

Kun: い.きる、 い.かす、 い.ける、 う.まれる、 うま.れる、 う.まれ、 うまれ、 う.む、 お.う、 は.える、 は.やす、 き、 なま、 なま-、 な.る、 な.す、 む.す、 -う On: セイ、 ショウ

Chinese Pronunciation: Shēng

Notes

• The term Productivity Improvement (生産性向上) includes the word Productivity (生産性).
• Japanese and English uses the same abbreviation, BI, for Business Intelligence (ビジネスインテリジェンス).
• (Net) Sales Volume or Sales Figures (売上高) contains the character 売 ( バイ | うる | うれる), which means sell. It is found in other business related terms such as
• 売買 (ばいばい | baibai) trade, "buying & selling",
• 商売 (しょうばい | shoubai) business, commerce, and
• 販売 (はんばい | hanbai) sale, selling, marketing.
• See Investopedia for a definition of Commercial Bank and Net Sales.

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Sources

NTT Communications	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk16n1
NTT Software	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk16n2
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk16n4
Hitachi	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk16n3
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk16n5
Investopedia.com, jisho.org

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