If there's a cheap kanji dictionary in Japan, I will buy it.
日本では安い漢字の辞書があれば、買います。
He can read well.
彼は十分字が読める。
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version
I foolishly interpreted the idiom according to its literal sense.
私はおろかにもその慣用語句を文字通りの意味で解釈してしまった。
The trade balance registered a surplus of $76 billion, with exports reaching $314 billion and imports $238 billion.
貿易収支は輸出3140億ドル、輸入230億ドルで、760億ドルの黒字を計上した。
What is difficult about Japanese is how characters are used in its writing system.
日本語の難しい点は文字を使った表記の仕方です。
This figure is a mirror of the decrease in imports of crude oil.
この数字は原油輸入減を反映している。
Does anyone know Tom's family name?
誰かトムの名字知らない?
Mother is having trouble making ends meet.
母は、赤字を出さずに暮らしを立てるのに苦労しています。
He can read well enough.
彼は十分字が読める。
He is quick to find fault with the student's penmanship.
彼はその生徒の字の書き方のあらを探すがはやい。
We must guard against mistakes in spelling.
われわれはつづり字の間違いに注意しなければならない。
Please send reports of mistypings and mistranslations to the email address below.
誤字・誤訳のご指摘等は下記メールアドレスよりお寄せください。
Add up these figures.
これらの数字を合計しなさい。
The sun faded the lettering on the sign.
日光で看板の文字があせた。
Magazines let writers write what they want and decide how to lay it out afterward, but that magazine prioritizes its design, so it sets a predetermined limit on how many words are in it.
He is a man of great knowledge, that is to say, a walking dictionary.
彼は非常に知識のある人、すなわち生き字引である。
Japan's balance of payments has been running a huge surplus for many years.
日本の国際収支は長年巨額の黒字を続けている。
It is impossible to read her handwriting.
彼女の字は読めない。
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
I took care to make the letters large and be generous with character and line spacing in order for it to be easy to read for the elderly and those who have problems with their sight.