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How can I type this letter づ
I used to have the same problem. You just need to type "du" instead.
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How should I format my questions on Japanese Language SE?
Basic translation tags
You can add # Japanese/# 日本語/# 和訳 and # English/# 英語/# 英訳 header tags at the start of lines to allow for tabbed English translations of Japanese posts.
This should be ...
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What should I do if I was asked for the "context"? Why is it important?
"What's the context?" is one of the most common types of comment you may get when you post a question about some expression on this site. The Japanese language depends heavily on the context....
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Japanese Language New Site Design
This post is outdated as it only contains information with respect to the
old design draft. It remains here just for referential purposes.
I know G-cam is already mentioning the logo:
But I ...
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How should I format my questions on Japanese Language SE?
Displaying variant characters
{{(language code):(text)}} syntax allows outputting <span lang="(language code)">(text)</span> tags, which can be useful when the same Unicode codepoint has ...
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Japanese Language New Site Design
This post is outdated as it only contains wishlist for the old design draft. It remains here just for referential purpose.
The overall design is wonderful, but my worry is about those accessories: ...
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Japanese Language New Site Design
SUDDENLY REALIZED
If you take away some lines and round the corner a bit:
it perfectly looks like katakana ア and still is superimposed J and P!
Or could be like this, I guess more clearly ...
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Who moderates the moderators?
Downvotes are a important part of the Stack Exchange network and they have been discussed throughout the network. Here are some related discussions:
I've just been downvoted. How should I react?
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Japanese Language New Site Design
Thank you for the beautiful design. I really like it, especially the color scheme, the subtle pattern and the coin-shaped icons. The subtle pattern makes me feel happy, because it looks like a ...
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Can I edit a post to replace Hiragana by Kanji?
I think so far the consensus has been that stylistic choices of the poster should be respected.
There are several reasons not to replace hiragana by kanji (possibly with furigana)
the source text is ...
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How to type small hiragana/katakana, general 'keyboard tips'
Try typing an x before whatever kana you want small, like xtsu and xa give you っ and ぁ.
To switch keyboards, on Windows you can hit Win + SPACE, then Ctrl + CAPSLOCK gives hiragana, and Alt + ...
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Massive loss of rep
Yes, snailplane, one of our moderators, has left the site.
She was an ardent voter. Usually only part of the votes are undone when an account is deleted (unless the account is deleted for voting ...
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A list of kanji that have different meanings and connotations than their hanzi counterparts?
The Japanese—Chinese false friends (日中同形（異義）語) have always been a hot topic among learners of each language in both countries.
Recent books:
『日本語と中国語の意味をより深く理解するための日中同形異義語1500』
(The Chinese ...
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Japanese Language New Site Design
The way "Japanese Language" is written at the top seems off stylistically to me.
I took it that part of the design is supposed to find inspiration from Japanese calligraphy or something like that, ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
こんにちは、Chocolate です。
How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?
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chocolateMod
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Scope amendment: Character recognition requests?
I personally consider the vast majority of the "what is this character?" questions to be trivial translation questions, and they should be closed as such. Asking "What is this kanji on my T-shirt I ...
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Japanese keyboard where each button is a Kana
I'm only going off of personal experience, But I'd say 80~90% of the Japanese people use ローマ字入力 (roman letter input). And most of those who use かな入力 (kana input) are older, 35 and up.
Definitely, ...
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Do something similar to Stack Overflow Documentation with the Japanese language?
I think it can be useful. Let me try to pick out one example. We get questions asking how to make relative clauses:
How to say “Tell Paul to send me the letter I wrote for his father”
Relative clause ...
FlawMod
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Resources for learning Japanese
Unreliable sites, apps, and tools that you should stay away from:
JLPT Sensei/JLPT先生 - A commercially motivated site fraught with mistakes, non-idiomatic and ungrammatical sentences. For some ...
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Japanese Language New Site Design
I'm quite pleased with the design and have nothing at all negative to say about it. I'd also like to point out that the font seems different which I think is a welcome change.
Could you please ...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
jkerian here
Some users believe this site has a negative atmosphere, and that this is a problem for the site. Do you agree? If so, what should moderators do to foster a more positive, friendly ...
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