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This Podcast is for people who are learning the Japanese language and for anyone who are interested in the Japanese culture.
ポッドキャストをお聞きの皆さん、こんにちは。3分日本語のお時間です。
Hello, everyone. Welcome or welcome back to 3-minute Japanese.
前回に引き続き、お金をテーマにお送りしています。
We are staying with the topic, which is money.
前回予告した通り、漢字の観点からお金を考えたいと思います。
As I stated in the previous episode, we would like to talk about money from the views of kanji, Chinese characters.
First 2 kanjis are gold and silver. In this episode, we will look at gold.
まず、「金」・「銀」の漢字を見ていきましょう。今回は「金」に注目したいと思います。
「金」が使われる代表的な単語は、以下の通りです。
The kanji for gold is used in the following words, 「お金」 “money”, 「金運」“luck with money”, and 「金利」“interest rate”
In German, money is das Geld, yellow is gelp, and gold is das Gold. The sounds for yellow and gold are quite similar. Incidentally, the words for colors gold and yellow, 「金色」and 「黄色」are believed to be related.
ドイツ語でお金はdas Geld、黄色はgelp、金は英語と同様das Goldで非常に音が似ていますが、関連語と考えられています。因みに日本語で金色と黄色も同様、関連語とみられています。
It is natural to see that gold and money are interchangeable in many languages.
「金」と「お金」は多くの言語において代替的に使われていることが分かります。
That’s it for today. In the next episode, we will talk about the connection between silver and money. Stay tuned.
はい、今日はここまでです。次回は銀とお金のつながりをテーマにお送りします。お楽しみに。
3 Minute Japanese
This Podcast is for people who are learning the Japanese language and for anyone who are interested in the Japanese culture.
