Perhaps the language hardest to learn as a second language after English is Japanese - the sheer number of characters used in various combinations for words, and indeed single characters representing words or phrases makes it most daunting. It also does not lead itself to easy "automatic" translation since the character set is so totally unique from the alphabet used for English and other languages. That makes it most frustrating for us wouldbeTemaribes. With great thanks to a friend and discussion group charter member, I am very happy to offer to you here some Japanese Kanji character translations that you will encounter in Japanese books - enough that you can being to put some pieces together, and more will come in the future.
        This work is courtesy of Sue Hayashi, who has spent two separate times for a total of eight years living in Japan with her family and Japanese hubby (who is very generous in helping out with translating). Sue studied Temari with Sensei Ozaki, a well-known Temari master, and author of many Temari books in Japan, and Sue became a Temari Master herself from the Japanese Temari Association. Between Sue's experiences living and learning in Japan, her hubby's support and her efforts, these results are known to be accurate. It is Sue's ultimate goal "to build a single pattern translation character group that one could eventually decipher a modicum of the Japanese books with.". I am pleased and honored to be able to help her in bringing them to you as they become available. Please note that this work is copyrighted by Susan Hayashi and Ginny Thompson, 2000 all rights reserved and may not be reproduced without permission. You may download one copy for personal, not for profit use only.
 
 

Advanced level	Aka - means red	Angle or corner	Aoi  - means blue
Beginner level	Brown	Center or middle	Cha - means tea brown
Chysanthemum	Diameter	East	Embroidery
Face, side or pole	Final stitch	Go, means 5	Hachi, means 8
Half, or one side	Ichi, means 1	Intermediate level	Juu, means 10
Kinko - means gold	Ku, means 9	Kuro - means black	Light coloring
Midori - means green	Navy or dark blue	Ni, means 2	North
Purple or violet	Radius	Right angle	Roku, means 6
San, means 3	Shi, means 4	Shichi, means 7	Shiro - means white
Silk Thread	Silver	South	Square
Stitch	Stitch or seam	Strand	Thread or yarn
West	Yellow

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