Hitsuji
New Zealand, Scotland, Wales and Zakkestan (read the Martin Lodewijk comic Agent 327) are famous for their huge amount of sheep. They outnumber the population.
Not in Japan. Far too little sheep.
Nevertheless, THEY have a single character for sheep. New Zealand and the others don't.
So.
Sheep in Japanese is hitsuji (remember the 90's little program HitsuWin.exe? Cute bouncing sheep for your desktop screen).
This is the Kanji (character in 1 of the 3 writing systems in Japan) for hitsuji.
And - handy - the image includes the steps on how to write the kanji hitsuji. 7 strokes only.
Some other sheep related words: youmou for wool, youniku for mutton, hitsujikai for shepherd and kohitsuji for lamb.
Last year (2003) was a great year. It was the year of the sheep (hitsuji-doshi).
2 comments:
Hitsuji......Are you aware of the fact that the isle of Texel is famous for it's hitsuji...? So Youssouf lives very comfortable with you...!
Greetz, Klaas!
True.. The isle of Texel (The Netherlands). Loads of sheep. Really great over there! Flocky island.
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