5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (9 February - 13 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

Because quarterly reporting season is upon us, Japanese phone companies are using a lot more financial terminology in their press releases. So, this week I pulled 5 language terms in the domains of technology, telecoms, and finance from press releases of Softbank, KDDI, and the Bank of Japan for the purpose of enhance one's vocabulary in these fields. 

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Preferred Securities	優先出資 証券	ゆうせん しゅっし しょうけん	Yūsen shusshi shōken
Disclaimer	免責事項	めんせき じこう	Menseki jikō
Deflation		デフレ	Defure
Optical Fiber	光 ファイバー	ひかり ファイバー	Hikari faibā
Credit	信用	しん よう	Shin yō

First Kanji

The first Kanji in this blog post is 優, a JLPT N3 level character. Per jisho.org the character’s meanings include tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority, gentleness

Kun: やさ.しい、 すぐ.れる、 まさ.る

On: ユウ、 ウ

Chinese Pronunciation: Yōu

Notes

• From 優先出資証券, Preferred Securities, we can see the embedded word
• for Securities, 証券 (しょうけん | shōken).
• Once one knows the term for デフレ, Deflation, one may want to know the its antonym. インフレ is the Japanese word for Inflation.

Last Week's Terminology | Next Week's Terminology

This week's Chinese Terminology

Sources

Softbank	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk17n1
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk17n2
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk17n3
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk17n5
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk17n4

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