Kanji Anyone?

[djwarner]

Got this link from a post on another forum. you might be interested.

 

http://teespring.com/datsunkanji#pid=212&cid=5821&sid=front

[HS30-H]

That's actually written in Katakana, not Kanji...

[Stanley]

A couple days ago I had a bottle of Asahi beer. After reading this post I tried to decipher the Katakana on the label. For someone who spent a week studying it (to get more out of the Japanese car magazines that use a lot of it), my Katakana is not very good, but I looked it up in the book. The kana is used for foreign loanwords and other things, it's phonetic. You need to read up on Romaji phonetic translation from English or other languages to make it easier, but to me it's way easier than Kanji, which you also would need to know to actually read Japanese.

 

Anyway, the white kana on the red stripe says Su-Pa-DoRaI (super dry), and the red kana underneath says Asahi Bi-Ru  (Asahi beer). After all that work I need another Asahi.

[dtshaw66]

So what does the Katakana on the t-shirt mean?

[djwarner]

Supposedly it says "Datsun".

[Stanley]

Da tsu to sa n  ("o" as in "go"), but the tsu is written small so I think it's pronounced  Dat-to-san.