Japanese counters and units of measurement

[Nora Stevens Heath]

Hi, everyone, and happy New Year!

I came across this page a job or two ago and thought it might come in
handy again someday:

http://www2.gol.com/users/pbw/unit.htm

Not only does it lay out a lot of useful counters, but it also features
the Japanese terms for very large (and very small) orders of magnitude,
various measures (along with conversion charts), and more.

Trivia: While the page states that rabbits were originally categorized
and counted as birds (with 羽) because they jumped, the story I heard
was that they earned their counter with a name that combined 鵜 and 鷺.

Nora

--
Nora Stevens Heath <no...@fumizuki.com>
J-E translations: http://www.fumizuki.com/

[TimL...@aol.com]

Nora Stevens Heath writes (inter alia):

 

Trivia: While the page states that rabbits were originally categorized

and counted as birds (with  ) because they jumped, the story I heard
was that they earned their counter with a name that combined   and  .

Two questions: what should be after "with", "combined" and "and", and

how come I am only receiving blanks here?

 

Regards

Tim Leeney

[Nora Stevens Heath]

Tim Leeney wrote:

> Two questions: what should be after "with", "combined" and "and", and
> how come I am only receiving blanks here?

Because we just *had* to move to Google Groups. ::rolls eyes::

Here it is with romaji:

> Trivia: While the page states that rabbits were originally categorized

> and counted as birds (with "wa", wing) because they jumped, the story I
> heard was that they earned their counter with a name that combined "u"
> (cormorant) and "sagi" (heron).

Nora
ユニコードで再送してみる

[Jim Lockhart]

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:47:44 -0500
Nora Stevens Heath <fumi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nora
> ユニコードで再送してみる

ユニコードでは問題なさそう。

--Jim Lockhart

[TimL...@aol.com]

Thanks, Nora

 

> Trivia: While the page states that rabbits were originally categorized
> and counted as birds (with "wa", wing) because they jumped, the story I
> heard was that they earned their counter with a name that combined "u"
> (cormorant) and "sagi" (heron).

 

Can you read my attempts at these?  羽、鵜、鷺

 

Regards

Tim

[Adam]

Nora Stevens Heath wrote:
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>
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> Trivia: While the page states that rabbits were originally categorized

> and counted as birds (with ) because they jumped, the story I heard
> was that they earned their counter with a name that combined and .
>
> Nora

The story I was taught was that rabbits were counted as birds so the (at
the time) newly Buddhist samurai would be able to eat some kind of meat.
The rationalization was that the rabbits' ears were at one time wings.

Adam

[Nora Stevens Heath]

Adam wrote:

> The story I was taught was that rabbits were counted as birds so the (at
> the time) newly Buddhist samurai would be able to eat some kind of meat.
> The rationalization was that the rabbits' ears were at one time wings.

Ah, sort of like how muskrat were once classified as fish here in metro
Detroit so Catholics could eat them on (meatless) Lenten Fridays. One
or two churches still have muskrat dinners during Lent.

Nora
drifting far off-topic now

[TimL...@aol.com]

Weird! Where did they go? Here's a resend, composed as plain text rather
than HTML, which may have been the problem.