日産
Nissan
Nissan is the Japanese name for the car brand Nissan.
日産 is used to refer to the Japanese brand of cars and other vehicles.
What does it mean word for word?
The name is composed of the characters for 'sun' (日) and 'production' (産), literally meaning 'production of the sun'.
How do you pronounce it?
Nissan
Did you know?
- In Japanese, 日産 is a homophone for 'daily production' when used in a manufacturing context, meaning a factory manager might use the same word to describe their output quota.
- The character 産 is also used in the word 出産 'shussan', meaning 'childbirth', giving the 'production' part of the name a biological connotation.
- While the name means 'sun production', the company's original name was 日産工業 'Nissan Industries', reflecting Japan's early 20th century focus on heavy industrialization.
Examples in context
- 初めて乗った車は、日産のパルサーです。My first car was a Nissan Pulsar.This sentence is useful for identifying a specific car model using 日産.Tatoeba #12164696 by small_snow, translation #10767253 by ddnktr
- ニッサンは世界的な自動車メーカーです。Nissan is a global car manufacturer.
- 日産の車はとても運転しやすいです。Nissan no kuruma wa totemo unten shiyasui desu.Nissan cars are very easy to drive.
Example conversation
Yota and Misaki are talking about buying a new car.
- 陽太 Yota美咲さんは、どのメーカーの車が欲しいですか？misaki-san wa, dono meikaa no kuruma ga hoshii desu ka?Misaki, which brand of car do you want?
- 美咲 Misaki私は日産の車がいいと思っています。watashi wa nissan no kuruma ga ii to omotte imasu.I think a Nissan car would be good.
- 陽太 Yota日産はデザインがかっこいいですよね。nissan wa dezain ga kakkoii desu yo ne.Nissan's designs are cool, aren't they?
- 美咲 Misakiそうですね。今度一緒に見に行きましょう。sou desu ne. kondo issho ni mi ni ikimashou.They are. Let's go see them together sometime.
Sources
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
