Just came across 絵文字 (emoji) on level eight and was pleasantly surprised to find out the English and Japanese spellings are identical. Just wanted to know if there were any other totally awesome words were English Japanese actually match? I’m guessing not?!

All the other loanwords? sushi, tsunami, samurai, etc…

What a coincidence! :sweat_smile:

[image] False cognates Japanese Language A false cognate is a pair of words that have similar sounds and meanings, but have different etymologies. These can exist in the same language or in two different languages. They are essentially neat coincidences that occur between …

Yes, those would be actual coincidences. Some of them are kind of neat. Rather than the relatively boring fact that English borrowed “emoji” from Japanese.

[image] Gidneybeans: any other Kaomoji is one.

typhoon and 台風 (たいふう)?

Identical spellings: a totally awesome rarity

WaniKani

polv September 16, 2017, 10:55am 4

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