Monday, December 21, 2015

10 Japanese Tech & Telecom Terms from a Fortnight of News (24 August - 4 September 2015)

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2週間ニュースから10日本語の言葉
This blog post’s Japanese jargon in technology and telecommunications was pulled from press releases of Fujitsu, Nokia, and NTT between 24 August 2015 and 4 September 2015. Thanks to technology research performed by NTT, the 5 physics’ terms in the main terminology are complemented with translations for the names of 5 more sub-atomic particles.  
English
Japanese
Kanji
Kana
Romanji
Consortium

コンソーシアム
konsōshiamu
Subscriber
加入者
かにゅうしゃ
Kanyū-sha
Nokia

ノキア
Nokia
Load
Balancing

ロード
バランシング
Rōdo
baranshingu
Distributed Processing
分散処理
ぶんさん しょり
Bunsan shori
Quantum
Hall
Effect
量子
ホール
効果
りょうし
ホール
こうか
Ryōshi
hōru
kōka
Atom
原子
げんし
Genshi
Magnetic Field
磁場
じば
Jiba
Voltage
電圧
でんあつ
Den'atsu
Photon
光子
こうし
kōshi

Notes

  • NTT’s press release on their research led me to include 5 more subatomic terms.
English
Kanji
Kana
Proton
ようこ
Neutron
ちゅせいし
Positron
ようでんし
Graviton
重力子
じゅうりょうくこ
Fermion
フェルミ粒子
フェルミりゅうし

Occupational Japanese

The vocabulary for this posting’s Japanese for World War II U.S. military personnel in 1944 comes from the Organization and Specialty section (pp. 30-32) of the U.S War Department’s Japanese Phrase Book TM30-611.
English
Kanji
Kana
What is your branch of Service?
兵科は何ですか?
へいかはなんですか。
Coast Guard
沿岸守備隊
えんがん しゅびたい
Corp of Engineers
こうへい
Medical Corps
軍医団
ぐんいだん
Signal Corps
通信
つうしんたい

Telecommunications Terms

Architecture In communications, system arrangement for signal processing and transmission; in computing, the system arrangement for computer elements and information flow.

アーキテクチャ、計算機構造 通信目的に於ける信号処理伝送の為のシステム設計。
計算目的に於ける計算要素及びデータの流れの為のシステム設計。
 

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

20 Chinese Tech, Telecom, and Finance Terms from Press Releases of October 2015

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从二零一五年十月新闻学二十个生词
In this posting 20 Chinese technology, finance, and telecommunications terms have been sourced from press releases of Alcatel-Lucent, CHT, the Central Bank of the Republic of China, Huawei, and ZTE for the purpose of vocabulary building.  The referenced press releases were issued between 2 October 2015 and 30 October 2015.

English

Chinese

汉字

Pinyin

Rack

机架中

Jī jià zhōng

Frame

机架

Jī jià

Terabyte

太比特

tài bǐtè

Photon

光子

Guāngzǐ

Closed Circuit Television
(CCTV)

闭路电视

Bìlù diànshì

Mission Critical

关键任务

Guānjiàn rènwù

Customer
Loyalty

客戶
忠誠

Kèhù zhōngchéng

e-Government

电子政务

Diànzǐ zhèngwù

Mobile Financial Services

移动金融服务

Yídòng jīnróng fúwù

Developers'
Conference

开发者
大会

Kāifā zhě
dàhuì

Market Share

市场占有率

shìchǎng zhànyǒu lǜ

Protocol Layer

协议层

xiéyì céng

Open Source
Foundation

开源
基础

Kāiyuán
jīchǔ

Open Source
Community

开源

kāiyuán
shè

Shareholder

股股东

Gǔ gǔdōng

Open Market Operations

公開市場操作

Gōngkāi shìchǎng cāozuò

Depreciation Expense

折舊費用

Zhéjiù fèiyòng

Smart Meters

智能电表

Zhìnéng diànbiǎo

Subsidiary

子公司

Zǐ gōngsī

Liquidity Risk

流動性風險

Liúdòng xìng fēngxiǎn

Hanzi in the Main Terminology

jià
zhōng
tài
guāng
diàn
shì
guān
jiàn
rèn
zhōng
chéng
dòng
jīn
róng
kāi
zhě
huì
shì
chǎng
zhàn
yǒu
xié
céng
zhèng
yuán
chǔ
shè
dōng
gōng
kāi
cháng
cāo
zuò
zhé
jiù
fèi
yòng
zhì
néng
biǎo
gōng
liú
dòng
xìng
fēng
jiǎn

Word in Use

  • 修正中央銀行公開市場操作作業要點」第5點及第12點規定
  • Amendments to points 5 and 12 of the "Central Bank Open Market Operations Operational Highlights"

Notes

  • From 开发者大会 is a compound of two words
    • 开发者 developer, and
    • 大会 conference (literally big meeting).
  • Given 开源基础 (Open Source Foundation) and 开源社 (Open Source Community), one may want to know that Open Source Code is  开源代码.

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