{"id":758,"date":"2017-10-18T18:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/?p=758"},"modified":"2021-09-27T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T22:06:01","slug":"%e7%9a%84%ef%bc%9a-a-very-useful-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/teki-a-very-useful-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7684\uff1a A very useful ally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Published: 2005\/2\/6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the word \u300c\u3066\u304d\u300d usually means “enemy”, that’s not the word we’re talking about today. The word I’m going to talk about uses a completely different Kanji from \u300c\u6575\u300d meaning “enemy” and is in fact a very useful and helpful ally.<\/p>\n

If you’ve studied Japanese for a while, you’re bound to have encountered the \u300c\u7684\u300d kanji. While this kanji by itself is read as \u300c\u307e\u3068\u300d and means a “target”, its usefulness really shines as a noun suffix. This kanji can be attached to countless nouns to easily change them to a na-adjective<\/a>. In this case, you read the kanji as \u300c\u3066\u304d\u300d and you’ll see it all over the place: \u4e00\u822c\u7684\u3001\u5727\u5012\u7684\u3001\u611f\u52d5\u7684\u3001\u7fd2\u6163\u7684\u3001\u6280\u8853\u7684\u3001\u57fa\u672c\u7684\u3001and on and on.<\/p>\n

Let’s take the word \u300c\u611f\u52d5\u300d meaning “deep emotion” and say we want to say the following sentence.<\/p>\n

That movie was very moving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, since \u300c\u611f\u52d5\u300d is a noun, we can’t just say, \u300c\u3042\u306e\u6620\u753b\u306f\u3068\u3066\u3082\u611f\u52d5\u300d because the movie is not a deep emotion. So you’re going to have to say something complicated like the following:<\/p>\n

\u3042\u306e\u6620\u753b\u3092\u898b\u3066\u3001\u611f\u52d5\u3057\u305f\u3002
\nI saw that movie and I was moved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But wait! We can just use \u300c\u7684\u300d to make \u300c\u611f\u52d5\u300d into an adjective!<\/p>\n

\u3042\u306e\u6620\u753b\u306f\u611f\u52d5\u7684<\/em>\u3060\u3063\u305f\u3002
\nThat movie was very moving.<\/p>\n

\u3042\u308c\u306f\u611f\u52d5\u7684\u306a<\/em>\u6620\u753b\u3060\u3063\u305f\u3002
\nThat was a very moving movie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What could be argued as even more useful is if you use the \u300c\u306b\u300d target particle<\/a> with \u300c\u7684\u300d, you can make the noun into an adverb! (Actually, this applies to all na-adjectives<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u305d\u308c\u306f\u6280\u8853\u7684\u306b<\/em>\u7121\u7406\u3067\u3059\u3002
\nThat’s technically impossible.<\/p>\n

\u671d\u3054\u98ef\u306f\u7fd2\u6163\u7684\u306b<\/em>\u6bce\u671d\u98df\u3079\u307e\u3059\u3002
\nI customarily eat breakfast every morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, without \u300c\u7684\u300d there are just so many things that can’t be expressed. I would definitely put this kanji on my top 100 list.<\/p>\n

\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u3067\u306f\u3001\u8eca\u3067\u901a\u52e4\u3059\u308b\u306e\u304c\u4e00\u822c\u7684<\/em>\u3060\u3002
\nIn America, people generally commute by car.<\/p>\n

\u5ba2\u89b3\u7684\u306a<\/em>\u8996\u70b9\u304b\u3089\u8003\u3048\u305f\u307b\u3046\u304c\u3044\u3044\u3002
\nIt’s better to think of it from a objective viewpoint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally Published: 2005\/2\/6 While the word \u300c\u3066\u304d\u300d usually means “enemy”, that’s not the word we’re talking about today. The word I’m going to talk about uses a completely different Kanji from \u300c\u6575\u300d meaning “enemy” and is in fact a very useful and helpful ally. If you’ve studied Japanese for a while, you’re bound to have … <\/p>\n

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