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3 Replies ・ Started by Kanjigadaisuki at 2020-02-09 17:23:59 UTC ・ Last reply by PuppetControlledByWaterPoweredContrivance at 2020-02-12 17:38:59 UTC
This is a discussion about です

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Was there a kanji for desu in old Japanese?

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HataReizu at 2020-02-09 18:22:50 UTC

No, です is a relatively modern word (late Edo to Meiji). です is believed to be a contraction of であります, and ある has the kanji 有る or 在る, so if you really wanted to you could write で有ります, but this is really pushing it.

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Kanjigadaisuki at 2020-02-10 18:29:35 UTC

Thank you very much!

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PuppetControlledByWaterPoweredContrivance at 2020-02-12 17:38:59 UTC

maybe

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