Why is America referred to as "米国" in Japanese? Surely Thailand or Vietnam is a better "rice country".
Why is America referred to as "米国" in Japanese? Surely Thailand or Vietnam is a better "rice country"
Sebastian Taylor
Anthony Moore
haha america is アメリカ
stupid american アメリカ hahahahahahaha
Jose Morris
米国 can also be used.
Thomas Wood
ya アメリカ
Oliver Moore
the original was 美国 (Mei Guo) in chinese but because "meikuo" sounds close to "murricah"
dunno why 美 became 米 for japs. crazy runes magic
Sebastian Diaz
>but because "meikuo" sounds close to "murricah"
than because USA is a "beautiful country". transliteration, not actual word meaning*
also check'em
Ethan Perez
here you go
幕末にアメリカのことを当て字で「亜米利加」と表記したことから、漢字二文字で国名を表す場合にこの言葉が使われる。植物のコメとは関係がない。
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James Martin
According to Wiktionary:
The second kanji character in 亜米利加 (America, “America”) + 国 (koku, “country”). The reason the second character is used instead of the first is because 亜 is already in use as the abbreviation for 亜細亜 (Ajia, “Asia”).
Joseph Diaz
but 米 reads Bei, not Mei
Michael Jackson
>植物のコメとは関係がない。
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