Kanji, kanji, get your kanji here. Are you a kanji freak? Do you study these things just for fun? Do you find them beautiful or interesting and learn even the ones that are super unnecessary to learn? Then this is the right thread for you. Rules: Your kanji must be non-WK kanji. You must be a …

I love this thread already, I love learning new kanji, even for the ones that are usually written in kana :durtle_love: A recent one: 淵 — abyss, depths, deep water

Aww, that’s too bad! Though 端 makes sense too. By the way, what’s the resource you use to find out the actual origins of Japanese words?

My dictionary shows these things for a lot of words: [image] If you’re interested, it’s the デジタル大辞泉, I bought it on the Microsoft Store. Really good dictionary if you ask me, it’s always my first option for looking up anything :wink: Actually, I also posted another print of it for 茸 just a few po…

[image] sigolino: If you’re interested, it’s the デジタル大辞泉, I bought it on the Microsoft Store. Really good dictionary if you ask me, it’s always my first option for looking up anything :wink: It has a single review, giving it 5 stars. Was that you? :stuck_out_tongue: Serious question, does it…

[image] seanblue: Was that you? :stuck_out_tongue: I might just give it another 5 star review :wink: [image] seanblue: Serious question, does it have pitch accent information? Sadly, no. It doesn’t bother me because I don’t mind that too much, but it is probably the biggest con for th…

Today’s kanji so far: 冴える (さえる): to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake 逞しい (たくましい): Brawny, strong. Indomitable, strong-willed robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc…

Ooh! I’ve been keeping a notebook full of particularly challenging and interesting words I’ve come across. At over 35 pages now and endeavouring to fill the entire thing. Most of them are compound words though but lemme see if I can find anything cool. I’m not entirely sure if any of these are cover…

[image] riya: I’m not entirely sure if any of these are covered by WK in the later levels None of these are, actually :slightly_smiling_face: Also, I haven’t seen 燻べる, but I can never remember how to read 燻ぶる when it comes up. Maybe now I will.

秤 (はかり) - scale, weighing machine :balance_scale:

些細 (ささい) - trivial Such a good word :nerd_face: and that first kanji is :ok_hand:

[image] Vanilla: 鼎 Those of us in Africa should steal this one for local use. It would make a great logo for potjiekos events.

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秤 (はかり) - scale, weighing machine

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