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That's how I'm remembering Fu! And YU looks like a fish, and in Chinese YU is fish!
I remembered ゆ as "unique fish", the beginning of the phrase sounds exactly like YU. I hope that it will help someone!
Huh. I thought it looked like a kissy face or sorta like the number 3.. ;3;
To me it looks like a house... A nut house to be precise French word for crazy is... Fou .. pronounced Fu... I know.. I'm nuts too...
Fuyu is ふゆ and fyu is ふゅ. In the second one yu is smaller as you can see from the hiragana. If the characters written separately as in the example of ふゆ (winter) here, you read them separately. If there is a smaller character as in the second example, you read it together.
its two separate characters, the yu character doesnt act like yo or ya in kya (kiya) or kyo (kiyo). it would also be smaller きょ vs きよ
Addition of the small y kana is called yōon.
A small version of the hiragana for ya, yu, or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be added to hiragana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o. For example, き (ki) plus ゃ (small ya) becomes きゃ (kya).
ふゅ ふゆ。 For Fyu the "ゆ" looks smaller, the pronunciation is not the same as the latter.
A bit of both and neither, really.
The Japanese ふ falls between an F and H sound.
In an English F your teeth clench a bit on your bottom lip, and in an H it tends to tighten around the mouth and not use teeth at all.
For ふ your mouth should be relaxed and the sound should blow lightly past your teeth with them not at all or only lightly touching your bottom lip. There should be barely any mouth movement in "fuyu". No hissing F sound like in english, and no hard H sound like "who".
Winter Kun'yomi: ふゆ On'yomi: とう Kanji: 冬
Some examples of it in use are: 冬期 ( とうき ) (Uses the on'yomi/Chinese reading) meaning wintertime, as an adverbial noun. 冬季 ( とうき ) meaning: winter (the season), as an adverbial noun. 玄冬 ( げんとう ) meaning: winter, as a noun.
In Brazil the word for Cold is Frio, which is what the winter has.
I hope it helps someone.
lmfao.. when i paste it in google translate to confirm what i thought you wrote it gave me ' i blew ' instead of ' winter has come '
Kanji is the writing system adopted from China where each individual character has a specific meaning. Japanese has a very small amount of syllables in the language, meaning there are many homophones. Kanji is used to help tell what the word means.
There are also no spaces in Japanese so the combined used of hiragana, katakana and kanji are helpful at telling where one word ends and another begins. They are used for most nouns as well as verb and adjective bases, while hiragana are used for grammatical components.
冬 is the kanji with the meaning "winter"
ふゆ is the pronunciation of the word "winter"
It looks like a dude running. Thats hos im remembering it! "Fu! Give me a minute to breath!"
Think of Mount Fu!! It looks like a moutain with a trail abd maybe some mist at the top or volcanic ash
It's cool because it looks like a fish, and the pronunciation of the character is similar to how we say "fish" in Chinese!
Its an "f" sound, but softer, like its pronounced with both your lips, instead of lips and teeth. Think gentle blowing
I always remember it from Sergeant Frog. Fuyuki and Natsumi, named for summer and winter. Fuyuki had blue hair, and Natsumi had pink.
I just think on the white dog-dragon on Neverending Story. I know it's written Fujur, but it sounds like Fuyu :)
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The charcter ゆ kind of looks like a fish. In Chinese the word for fish, 鱼 , is pronounced in almost the same way (yú, with an upwards inflection).
I memorised "fuyu" by imagining sound of cold wind on winters but in slow motion "fuuuuuuyuuuuu" lol!
From my comment above:
The Japanese ふ falls between an F and H sound.
In an English F your teeth clench a bit on your bottom lip, and in an H it tends to tighten around the mouth and not use teeth at all.
For ふ your mouth should be relaxed and the sound should blow lightly past your teeth with them not at all or only lightly touching your bottom lip. There should be barely any mouth movement in "fuyu". No hissing F sound like in english, and no hard H sound like "who".
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In some words, the pronunciation changes slightly. Like in English. For example, Konnichiwa (こんにちは) has the Hiragana "は" at the end. Normally this Kana makes a "ha" sound, but in Konnichiwa, it makes a "wa" sound.
The sound you make from "fuyu" could remind you of some cold wind or something you would say when cold
In the arubian language papiamento cold means "friu" and it sounds similar to ふゆ and it's cold in the winter so that's how i remember it
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I don't know if it may help anyone, but I just use the Todorokis (Fuyumi and Natsuo) from BnHA to remeber that fuyu is winter and natsu is summer
They are later in the course. Autumn is 秋・あき, spring is 春・はる
These early skills are for teaching hiragana readings with some basic vocab words so not all seasons (and numbers) are taught immediately. They have their own designated skills later on where the proper kanji forms are covered (Numbers covered in the Time skills, seasons in the Clothes skill).
Why is ふ represented as Fu if は ひ へ ほ are all related to it and are represented ha hi he and ho? It sounds more like hu than fu as well...
Is it just me or does it sound like hu instead of fu also downloaded a pic for the katakana and it says hu which one is correct ?
From above on this page: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/23033248$comment_id=30627846
A bit of both and neither, really.
The Japanese ふ falls between an F and H sound.
In an English F your teeth clench a bit on your bottom lip, and in an H it tends to tighten around the mouth and not use teeth at all.
For ふ your mouth should be relaxed and the sound should blow lightly past your teeth with them not at all or only lightly touching your bottom lip. There should be barely any mouth movement in "fuyu". No hissing F sound like in english, and no hard H sound like "who".
