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How to say 1~10 for counting in Japanese

Iち, に, さん, ょん (し), ご, ろく, しち (なな), はち, きゅう (く), じゅぅ.

The vocabulary exchange between modern Japanese and Chinese consists of two aspects:

On the one hand, it was imported into Japan through Chinese translations of Western books and writings (Hai Guo Tu Zhi, etc.) and English-Chinese dictionaries (Luo Cun De) by Chinese intellectuals and Western missionaries, which have become a part of the vocabulary of modern Japanese.

On the other hand, after the Meiji Restoration and the beginning of the process of modernization and industrialization, a large number of European and American vocabularies were introduced into Japan along with the achievements of the Industrial Revolution and the ideas of the Enlightenment (mainly English, but also German and French), and then reassembled into a large number of modern Japanese vocabularies by the Japanese people, and then transmitted to the neighboring China.

Basic Information:

The script, the way it is written, and the way it is represented on books (paper, etc.) is called Japanese, and it is a language spoken mainly by people on the Japanese islands. There are no precise statistics on the population of Japanese speakers, but counting the population within Japan and the overseas Japanese population living outside Japan, there should be more than 130 million Japanese speakers.

Almost all Japanese nationals born and raised in Japan speak Japanese as their mother tongue. In addition, for the deaf, Japanese sign language exists that corresponds to the Japanese grammar and phonetic system.

The Japanese language is closely related to the Chinese language, and in ancient times (the Tang Dynasty), under the influence of Chinese culture, a large number of ancient Chinese words were introduced to Japan along with Chinese characters from the Bohai Kingdom in northeastern China and from Korea, etc.

The Japanese language is closely related to the Chinese language.