aikido kanji
aikido kanji
watashi and watakushi?
when do you use watakushi? i know its super formal but would you use it for teachers or bosses, or just someone really high up like the greatest aikido master in the world or an emperor.
also why is the kanji the same even though the formal has an extra ku?
see --> 私 and 私
uhm...normally you don't use watakushi in modern-day Japan, but when it comes to having a chit chat with an emperor, where I wouldn't be able to keep myself withing normal modes of myself, such a ridiculously formal word could slip from my tongue. Otherwise you never use watakushi anyway, unless you wanna attract some laugh on you. Some politicians, some news anchors like Tokumitsu, or nutjob professors would be exceptions as individuals that actually use such a word but since you are some kid, everyone expects you speak normal fluent Japanese like the other ordinary commoners do, in any settings--speaking with your school teacher, college professor, the head figure of the bank of Japan or whatever. You wonder about Kanji thingy means you have a really shallow understanding of the role of kanji in Japanese language.
"The kun'yomi (訓読み) of a kanji (also called its kun reading, Japanese reading, or somewhat misleadingly its native reading) is a reading based on the pronunciation of a native Japanese word, or yamatokotoba, that closely approximated the meaning of the Chinese character when it was introduced." Thus one kanji can have two different sounding kun readings, which are Japanese words with the same or close meaning. So, since both 'watashi' and 'watakushi' mean 'I' simply speaking, it is comprehensible that they are coupled with the same kanji--私.
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