#22 What does 信号 mean? ~ Japanese used to had so poor vocabularies?!~
2019. 1. 6
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So today's word is 信号
Reads: shin-gou
Means: signal
How to write 信👇
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How to write 号👇
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This means usually traffic signals.
Example sentence:
・日本人 は 緑信号 を 青信号 と 呼ぶ。
/ni-hon-jin wa midori-shin-gou o ao-shin-gou to yo-bu/
…Japanese people call green signals "blue signals"
This is what most Japanese are wondering.
Japanese signals have "green", "yellow" and "red", too.
But we say "青信号" though it's green.
Then I asked Mr. Google why we say "blue" to see "green"?
He answered
"Long time ago, Japanese words used to have only
red, blue, white and black for colors. So they call the
colors between blue and green 'blue'. So it's just
remains from ancient Japan to call green blue"
Surprisingly, Japanese didn't have no words but
"red", "blue", "white" and "black"!!
Even Japanese people don't know the fact, absolutely!!
If you have any Japanese friends, ask them if they
know that.
You might be able to teach them about Japan to Japanese!! Hehe
So I explain about the grammars used in the sentence.
👉日本人(ni-hon-jin)
日本 means "Japan"
人 means "person"
So 日本人 means "Japanese people"
Other examples:
アメリカ人
/amerika jin/
... Americans
ロシア人
/roshia jin/
... Russian people
ドイツ人
/doitsu jin/
...German people
フランス人
/furans jin/
... French people
オランダ人
/oranda jin/
... people in Netherlands
イギリス人
/igiris jin/
... people in UK
インド人
/indo jin/
... Indian people
👉緑信号/midori- shin- gou/
緑 means green.
信号 means signals.
But we don't say 緑信号, but 青信号.
Red signals are 赤信号/aka- shin- gou/
Yellow signals are 黄信号/ki- shin- gou/
👉青信号/ao- shin- gou/
青 means blue.
And strange to say, 青信号 means "green signals"
👉呼ぶ(yo-bu)
This means "to call''
AをBと呼ぶ means "we call A B"
When you "call" someone with loud voice, it also
meams "呼ぶ"
But when you "call" with the telephone, it means
"電話する" /den- wa suru/
電話 means "telephone"
電 means "electricity"
話 means "story" and "to talk"
That's all explanations.
Today's sentence was not so confusing as usual.
Thank you so much for reading.
Ask me if you have any questions.
I hope this helps you a lot.
See you next time~
