Sunday, March 29, 2015

5 Chinese Terms from Last Week's News (23 March 2015 to 27 March 2015)

五个中文生词从上个星期的新闻
The sources for last week's technology, telecommunications, and finance terms comes from the People's Bank of China, CHT, Huawei, and ZTE.

English
Chinese
汉字
Pinyin
Smart Home Network
智慧家庭网
Zhìhuì jiātíng wǎng
High Reliability
高可靠
Gāo kěkào
Prototype
原型
Yuánxíng
盈利
Yínglì
Project
Management Professional (PMP)
專案
管理師
Zhuān'àn
guǎnlǐ shī
Microblog
微博
Wēi bó

Hanzi in the Main Terminology


zhì

huì

jiā

tíng
wǎng

gāo

kào
yuán

xíng
yíng

zhuān

Àn
guǎn


shī
wēi

Notes

  • The character 盈 (Yíng) is the first character in the fixed expression 盈亏自负 (Yíngkuī zìfù) translates as responsible for one's own profits and losses. The first two characters 盈亏 not only means profits and losses, it, also, refers to the waxing and waning of the moon.
  • Given the word, 盈利 means profits, one would one a few more terms to better describe some basics in financial statements.


English
Chinese
汉字
Pinyin
盈利
Yínglì
=
=
=
Total Revenues
总收入
Zǒng shōurù
-
-
-
Total Expenses
总费用
Zǒng fèiyòng




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Friday, March 27, 2015

5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (23 March - 27 March 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
During the week of 23 - 27 March 2015 press releases from the Bank of Japan, Softbank, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and NTT Docomo provided the source for 5 Japanese Tech, Telecom, and Finance Terms.  

English
Japanese
Kanji
Kana
Romanji
Outstanding
Loans
貸付残高
かしつけ
ざんだか
kashitsuke zandaka

(Electric)
Current

電流
でんりゅう
Denryū
Customer Base
顧客基盤
こきゃく きばん
Kokyaku kiban
Floating-point operations
浮動小数点演算
ふどう しょうすうてん えんざん
Fudō shōsūten enzan
普通株式
ふつう かぶしき
Futsū kabushiki

First Kanji

This week’s first Kanji is is a JLPT N4 character meaning to lend.
On: タイ
Chinese Pronunciation: dài

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Notes

On this blog site, we've seen 2 types of stocks (株式). There is
  • 普通株式 (ふつう かぶしき) = common stock and
  • 自己株式 (じこかぶしき) = treasury stock, which was mentioned in Week 12's post.


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