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I've decided to study kanji.
漢字を勉強しようと決心しました。
She writes much better now than she used to.
彼女は以前よりずっと上手に字を書く。
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。
The government is running its largest deficit ever.
政府は史上最大の赤字をかかえています。
What do the letters P.S. stand for?
Ｐ．Ｓ．という文字は何を表していますか。
I can't memorize so many of these letters.
そんなにたくさんの文字を記憶できません。
NOTE: Typo corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
※誤字直しました。ご指摘サンクスです。
He can read well enough.
彼は十分字が読める。
I could do nothing but stare stupidly at the printed page.
私は本に書かれた文字をぼうっと見ているだけだった。
Tom's handwriting isn't very good, but it's easy to read.
トムの字ってうまくはないけど読みやすいよね。
What is this letter?
これはなんの文字ですか。
The Red Cross distributed food to the refugees.
赤十字は難民たちに食糧を配った。
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.
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。
Your composition was good except for the spelling.
君の作文は綴り字以外はよく書けていた。
The Japanese and Chinese pronunciation for kanji is very different, isn't it?
日本語と中国語の漢字の発音はとても違いますね。
Does anyone know Tom's family name?
誰かトムの名字知らない？
How many grade four kanji have you memorised?
４級の漢字をどれだけ覚えていますか。
She can read even this difficult a kanji.
彼女はこんな難しい漢字も読めます。
Four is an unlucky number in Japan.
４は日本では不吉な数字だ。
He is a man of great knowledge, that is to say, a walking dictionary.
彼はすごい知識を持った人です。すなわち、生き字引です。
She writes an excellent hand.
彼女は素晴らしい字を書く。
Military discipline is literally rigid.
軍隊の規律は文字通り厳しいものだ。
Do you know whose handwriting this is?
これ誰の字か分かる？
Watanabe is my family name.
渡辺が名字です。
He anonymously donated a large sum of money to the Red Cross.
彼は匿名で赤十字に多額のお金を寄付した。
How do you spell your last name?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
My father is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
僕の父は、いわば生き字引だ。
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。
How many letters are there in the alphabet?
アルファベットは何文字ですか。
The company is losing money heavily.
その会社は巨額の赤字を出している。
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
文字はそれが半ば商売、半ば芸術であるとき最高に栄える。
While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.
