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What do you mean by "brother"?

"ぉちゃん" is a nickname for my brother.

Introduction to Japanese: Japanese, referred to as Japanese for short, is the main language used by Kazuo people on the Japanese archipelago and the official language of Japan. Its language system is controversial, some people think it can be classified as Altaic language family, while some Japanese scholars think it is an isolated language, belonging to Fuyu language family or Japanese language family.

Writing system: The complicated writing system in Japanese is a major feature. Its writing system includes three writing systems: Japanese characters (mostly by pronunciation and training pronunciation), Hiragana and Katakana. It can also be translated from Japanese Roman characters into Latin letters.

Distribution: Japanese immigrants from Central and South America (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Dominica, Paraguay, etc.) except Japan. ) and Hawaii mainly use Japanese, but many don't speak Japanese after three or four generations. Before World War II, Japan mainly ruled the Korean Peninsula, a part of China (Taiwan Province Province, Northeast China and Hongkong), Sakhalin Island and Nanyang Islands (Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Marshall Islands and Micronesia, etc.). ), and some of them were educated in Japanese at that time and were able to use Japanese.

Phonetic categories: pseudonyms, voiced sounds, semi-voiced sounds, voiced sounds, accelerated sounds, long sounds and dial sounds.

Type:

Harmony: The primitive vocabulary of the Japanese nation is mainly verbs and figurative nouns in daily life.

Chinese: Absorb and transform Chinese vocabulary, including harmonious Chinese. Most of them have the same or similar meanings as Chinese, and a few are completely different or even opposite. Mainly abstract words and words with clear meaning. Chinese characters are widely used in Japanese government documents and newspapers.

Loanwords: mainly in English, but also from other languages.

Tense: Japanese verbs have two tenses: past, present and future.