Anyone Read Japanese?

[Soichiro]

If anyone can read Japanese I'd like to know what these boots being worn by Michael Schumacher at this weekend's German GP say. TIA gm

 

[ak]

That's chinese, and it says "Thou shall not block anyone during qualifying!"

 

[topman2005]

yes its chinese, i think its a english name which translated to 'chinese'

 

[Jin1976]

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That's chinese, and it says "Thou shall not block anyone during qualifying!"

 

[fifthearth]

it's "Schumacher" in Chinese.

 

[Da Hapa]

That's chinese, and it says "Thou shall not block anyone during qualifying!"

Please correct me if I'm mis-informed but...

Written Japanese is composed of three different "alpahabets" (is that even a word)... Kanji, Hirigana and Katakana. Kanji is the main "alphabet" and it's a series of characters that are the exact same characters as Chinese and in fact, have the same meaning. But... the pronunciation is different.

Unfortunately, my days of reading Kanji are long since past me but I suspsect that someone can help on this board.

 

[topman2005]

it's "Schumacher" in Chinese.

correct!!

 

[ak]

Please correct me if I'm mis-informed but...

Written Japanese is composed of three different "alpahabets" (is that even a word)... Kanji, Hirigana and Katakana. Kanji is the main "alphabet" and it's a series of characters that are the exact same characters as Chinese and in fact, have the same meaning. But... the pronunciation is different.

Unfortunately, my days of reading Kanji are long since past me but I suspsect that someone can help on this board.

In Japanese, Hiragana is the main alphabet. Japanese mixes hiragana with kanji(chinese) characters, which does have the same meaning and sometimes phonetically similar as well. However, Japanese uses far fewer chinese characters than chinese does. Some of the characters on Schumacher's shoe is not used in Japanese at all and that's how I figured it was chinese If you were to spell out Schumacher's name in Japanese, it'll all be in katakana.

-ak