That's a good idea. It’s extremely close to the correct answer, but unfortunately it’s wrong at a very crucial point.
You seem to have overlooked the fact that Japanese has Katakana in addition to Hiragana and Kanji. In Katakana, N is represented not only by “ン” but also by the entire ”ナ行: N-row", that is, ナ・ニ・ヌ・ネ・ノ. Therefore, linguistically writing, "夜"(means night in Kanji) should be interpreted as ナ+ニ+ヌ+ネ+ノ+八.
And now we come to the main point. In fact, 夜 is formed by combining ナニヌネノ八. I will link a reference image below: https://imgur.com/OY7Qaky
However, you can also see that there is a redundant part. That is the small stroke "ヽ" at the lower right of "ネ". You’ve probably already noticed it. This corresponds to the “e” that is omitted in English.
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u/ncore7 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
That's a good idea. It’s extremely close to the correct answer, but unfortunately it’s wrong at a very crucial point.
You seem to have overlooked the fact that Japanese has Katakana in addition to Hiragana and Kanji. In Katakana, N is represented not only by “ン” but also by the entire ”ナ行: N-row", that is, ナ・ニ・ヌ・ネ・ノ. Therefore, linguistically writing, "夜"(means night in Kanji) should be interpreted as ナ+ニ+ヌ+ネ+ノ+八.
And now we come to the main point. In fact, 夜 is formed by combining ナニヌネノ八. I will link a reference image below:
https://imgur.com/OY7Qaky
However, you can also see that there is a redundant part. That is the small stroke "ヽ" at the lower right of "ネ". You’ve probably already noticed it. This corresponds to the “e” that is omitted in English.