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Haha, I thought it sounded like it's "hot eh?" Then someone would answer "because it's sunny"
I like hare = "Hot ray" of sun, same exact sounds :) (Even if r makes a sort of d sound
That's an excellent way to learn new kanji. Do you know where I can find a breakdown of kanji like in this example?
Just about any textbook that teaches you Kanji. Before compound Kanji, the book will teach you the individual Kanji, so that when you see something like this, 晴, you'll know where it came from. This, 青, also consists of two Kanji characters.
Ok people. I will show you a veru complicated way of remebering this.
「はれ」, when romanized becomes "Hare". If you read "Hare" in english you pronounce it as "Hair". A Hare looks like a rabbit (probably is one actually). People call rabbits "Bunnies". And "Bunny" rhymes with "Sunny" (Which is the defenition of 「はれ」.
So, to summarize: はれ > Hare > Rabbit > Bunny > Sunny
I expect nobody benefiting from this.
I wasted too much time typing this out.
Imagine wanting to say the word an having to go through the steps. Hmm, how do I say its sunny. Oh I remember, sunny sounds like bunny, another word for bunny is rabbit, another word for rabbit is hare, you can also pronounce hare as ha rey. はれ. You just stood there for an awkward silent 15 seconds while in a conversation thinking about the way you say it.
Har in arabic means hot and persian use "e" for "is" so harE means its hot and sunny, thats how i memorized it
I always think はれ (ha re) sounds like hurry. "Hurry, it's sunny, let's go outside"
The kanji for this word is 晴れ and means: clear (or fine) weather. Its kun reading is: はれ. Its on reading is: セイ.
thats because when the character は stands alone its sounds like "wa" instead of "ha" as a particle word it it said as "wa". the lone "wa" in "watashi wa" its written "は" its odd but thats just how it is. (ive been learning japanese for several years despite what on might assume from my profile data)
I've been wondering about that too. I thought maybe it was something wrong with my speakers! Thank you for explaining that!
Its only pronounced as wa when it is being used as a particle. If its part of a word, then it is read as ha.
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晴れ mean = clear weather; fine weather. In German: heiteres Wetter; klares Wetter; schönes Wetter but neither sunny nor (in German) sonnig.
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Hare .. like rabbit? Rabbits like carrots. Carrots can't grow unless it's SUNNY. BOOM!
There is a song called "Hare Hare Yukai" which basically means "Sunny Sunny Happiness". The song is just as happy as the title describes it. Its from anime Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. For me, as for someone who watched it maaany years ago it somehow helped me to remember the word.
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「晴れ」 doesn't really mean "sunny"; it means "clear". This matters, because it means you can use the word at night as well as during the day.
it's a hot sunny day, the hare (はれ) lies down under a tree to rest. meanwhile, the tortoise crosses the finish line.
Thonking of "Hare Krishna", they're always smiling when singing in the streets, here, like Suns.
For Arabic speaker "har" means hot, so kinda makes it easy to remember :)
In the Philippines, the Sun is often poetically referred to as 'Haring' (King) 'Araw' (Sun) - which worked for me.
Share something interesting. My hometown dialect 淮阴话's phrase 下来(come down) sounds 100% like はれ.
You will see the kanji 晴れ for this word later on in the Weather skills
Here it is introduced written as it is pronounced as a simple vocab word to help you learn to read hiragana
In Turkish, "hare" means shining lines, or angels' halo (shining ring above their head)
なつ is summer, the season
はれ is sunny, the weather
夏は晴れです・なつははれです - the summer is sunny
In Indonesian, the sun is called mata hari, "the eye of day". That's what I use as mnemonic.
は is pronounced "ha" normally, it's only when it's used as a particle that it's pronounced "wa".
Hey people, I'm totally noob in japanese but, isn't there a similiar word (to hare) that means something like "what?!" (surprise, when founding something they didn't expect, for example). I actually thought that was the translation...
maybe "a re" ? "a re" is an interjection and wiktionary translates it as "huh?"
Are you thinking of "ara"? Ara more closely translates to "oh my", an expression of mild surprise.
