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

This week's technology, telecommunication and finance terms were selected from use of the published use of one of the terms by the Bank of Japan, NEC, or Fujitsu in a press release between 2 March and 6 March 2015.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Life cycle		ライフサイクル	Raifusaikuru
Marketing		マーケティング	Māketingu
Efficiency	効率化	こうりつか	Kōritsu ka
Real GDP	実質GDP	じっしつGDP	Jisshitsu GDP
Automation	自動化	じどうか	Jidō ka

First Kanji

This post’s first kanji is 効 which per jisho.org is a JLPT N2 character and means merit, efficacy, efficiency, and benefit.

Kun: き.く、 ききめ、 なら.う     On: コウ     

Mandarin Pronunciation: xiào

Word in Use

From: わが国の経済・物価情勢 と 金融政策, Bank of Japan, 5 March 2015, p. 14.

実 質 Ｇ Ｄ Ｐ			Real GDP
[年率換算]			[Annual Conversion]
国 内 需要			Domestic Demand
	民間需要			Private Demand
		民間最終消費支出			Private Final Consumption Expenditures
		民間企業設備			Private Enterprise Facilities
		民 間 住 宅			Private Housing
	公 的 需 要			Public Demand
		公的固定資本形成			Public Fixed Capital Formation
純 輸 出			Net Export
	輸 出			Export
	輸 入			Import

Notes

• When used as a suffix 化 (か / ka ) means to change into / transform into /  turn into / convert. We can see the pattern in the following words:

English	Japanese	English + Nominalization	Japanese + 化
Automatic	自動	Automation	自動化
Same	同	Assimilation	同化
Liquid	液	Liquefaction	液か
Modern　Age	近代	Modernization	近代化
Computer	コンピュータ	Computerization	コンピュータ化

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Sources

NEC	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk20n1
Nifty	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk20n2
Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk20n3
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk20n5
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk20n4
Investopedia.com, Jisho.org, visualmandarin.com

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