Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

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A photograph would be easier to decipher.

First character looks like 仁 (virtue) but it's pretty uncommon except in names. Might also be hiragana に (ni) or even た (ta) if you copied it very badly. Or many other kanji.

Second character looks like 内 (inside) and not really anything else I can think of, suggesting the other two should be kanji as well.

Last one might be 力 (strength), カ (katakana KA), か (hiragana ka), 刀 (katana) or quite a few other kanji.

But I really don't see how one might put all these together to form a meaningful kanji compound.