Since small Japanese children often refer to themselves by their names, the original title is an idiomatic phrase used by Japanese children Akira’s age. Japanese title has alliteration, with the same character at the beginning of each line, including the name of the little boy, Akira. The ...
Taking the example of emotion-related disorders, this paper focuses on the changing meaning of constraint (utsu) in Kampo medicine. Utsu was once a name for one of the most frequently cited emotion-related disorders and pathological concerns during the Edo period. With the spread of Western ...
エモい (emoi) is another word for “cool”. It comes from “emotion” and has a bit of a nerdy connotation, but it’s not weird to hear. それな (sore na) is similar to “I know, right?” You say it when your friend says something relatable. ...
Japanese nouns that become verbs One of the most frequently used verbs in Japanese issuru, meaning “to do.” Not only does it have a broad definition, but it can be paired with a variety of nouns to create new verbs! These pairs [noun+suru] are commonly referred to assuruverbs. When...
Delve into the history of several Japanese words that have made their way into the English dictionary like emoji, futon, and hunky-dory.
Awich felt unmoored back in Okinawa. "It was a rollercoaster of emotion every day. One day I feel so sad and depressed, and the next day I feel like I could change the world," she related. "And the thing that kept me going was writing. I kept on writing journals, the things that...
As for how things are really pronounced, you have to keep in mind that while it's French sounding, English sounding, German sounding names and such, it's still made by Japanese so the "real" way of saying it will never be what you think/it should be. I fell off my chair when I ...
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What he reminded me of was the literal meaning of the names of the Hawaiian gods, Hina and Ku, which as "supine" and "upright," respectively, are similarly suggestive of sexual differences in physical images. Cummings was also responsible for a talk show, Love You, Mean It [2012] and ...
winnig/wìn:ɪ̀g/ “sun” *ŋ͡mind-ga (original L tone root.) It’s not totally out of the question, formally, that the “sun” stem might bederivedfrom “god” (a suffix *d does figure in nominal derivation, sometimes with no very clear meaning), but the tonal difference ...