Nina's Nihongo Zone 11 - Etymology of Japanese Names for Planets (Patreon)

Hello patrons, and welcome to episode 11 of Nina's Nihongo Zone. This month, at Thom's request, I talk about the etymology of the Japanese names for the planets in our solar system. 

- Two sources on the Japanese names for the planets.

- Wiktionary etymology page for 地球（ちきゅう, chikyuu, earth), and the Wikipedia page for Matteo Ricci, the missionary credited with coining the term.

- Pages about the Chinese philosophy wuxing and its Japanese equivalent, gogyou (both written as 五行).

- All about the "week" as a unit of time (and different versions of it throughout human history and around the world), and about the names of the days of the week in East Asia.

- The intro song is "The city" by The Kyoto Connection, from the album Kyoto Soundscapes, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

- The outro song is "Brain Power" by Mela, from the album Mela two, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Vocab List:

地球 ちきゅう Earth

水星 すいせい Mercury

金星 きんせい Venus

火星 かせい Mars

木星 もくせい Jupiter

土星 どせい Saturn

天王星 てんのうせい Uranus

海王星 かいおうせい Neptune

冥王星 めいおうせい Pluto

If you have language questions or a topic you'd like to recommend for a future episode of Nina's Nihongo Zone, you can email me at gundampodcast@gmail.com, or leave a comment below!