come to think of it

Archetype of Chinese characters is a hieroglyph.

夏.

"State where people dancing gracefully.
That's elegance."
　
This character seems to express it originally.
　
It turned to 華・flower.
　
"To late middle age from young adulthood."

And the four seasons compared to the life of people.
Meaning of the summer may have attached to 夏.　


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Even now，Japan are using Chinese characters as the notation of Japanese language.
And there is ”hiragana・ひらがな” and ”katakana・カタカナ” in addition to it.

As impression.
Hiragana is 〇. (For example、あいうえお・aiueo.)
Katakana is ◇.　(For example、アイウエオ・aiueo.)
　

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Ancient (until around 6 century)  Japanese language leading directly to the Japanese language of now.
They did not have the character.

At one point，Japanese came up with the use of Chinese characters for Japanese notation.

It was a way to borrow only the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

For example borrow the only pronunciation of Chinese characters of 夏・ka.
Meaning of summer is not used.


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This is an example that came up only now.

My name is Shibayama Hiroki.
(Hiroki shibayama by Western notation.)
　
Last name・Personal name
Japanese is this order.
　
"市場矢間日魯期"
　
市・shi／場・ba／矢・ya／間・ma／日・hi／魯・ro／期・ki
　
Initially, the Japanese had been using Chinese character like this. (for example)
And probably，it became cumbersome.
(Because character of the one sound is as complex as this.)　

Japanese simplified Chinese characters of the phonetic equivalent.
They made ​​hiragana and katakana.
　
"市場矢間日魯期"
"しばやまひろき"
"シバヤマヒロキ"

Note: In short，Japanese used the Chinese characters as phonogram like alphabet.　
But Chinese characters is ideogram originally.　
They have a complex meaning in one character.


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Come to think of it.

"出火吐暴威"
　
Costumes of David Bowie san at the time of Ziggy Stardust tour.
This Chinese characters was written so in his cloak.
(It is a design of Yamamoto Kansai san.)
　
This is pronounced David Bowie in Japanese.　
Accurate pronunciation as Japanese is "Debiddo Boui". (デビッドボウイ)