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
Common Stock	普通株式	ふつう かぶしき	Futsū kabushiki

First Kanji

This week’s first Kanji is 貸 is a JLPT N4 character meaning to lend.

On: タイ	Kun: か.す、 か.し-、 かし-
Chinese Pronunciation: dài

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.

Last Week's Terminology | Next Week's Terminology

This Week’s Chinese Terminology

Sources

Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk23n1
Softbank	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWK23n3
Hitachi	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk24n4
Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk23n2
NTT Docomo	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWK24n5
Jisho.org, investopedia.com

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