Sometimes when I learn a new word, the kanji making up that word make me happy. Sometimes it’s delightful, sometimes it’s poetic, and sometimes it seems like whoever invented the word had a good sense of humor. What’s a kanji or kanji combination that makes you smile?
Absolutely!
Yeah, those are great. I love too how they look like puzzle pieces that could fit together if you rotated them, further confusing them in my brain.
It’s not an answer to your question, but I figure you might enjoy キラキラ金玉金曜日
No idea where it came from or why that phrase specifically got popular, but apparently it’s something like the Japanese version of TGIF. Just with shiny balls for some reason
I have no idea, really. Could be, but I’d say it’s just as likely to just be people having a bit of a laugh with no deeper meaning or thought behind it
I found something that might help!
This is someone asking what the significance of the phrase is.
From my limited ability, I’ve gathered that "キ” from キラキラ is a rhyme of the き in 金.
The poster explains 金玉 as “a man’s important spot”, so it’s ultimately like a sing-songy rhyming word play phrase. They also say to only use it with very good friends! (Can you IMAGINE? Signing off on your Japanese work email… but I thought it was TGIF!)
But yeah, in English, it reads like shiny balls Friday which is the best thing I’ve heard in months.
That does kinda confirm that it’s just a funny kind of phrase similar to TGIF, with no real deep meaning behind it. It’s just funny and it reuses the 金 from 金曜日, just with 金玉 instead.
So it read like shiny balls Friday in Japanese too, which makes it even better
Every single word with しり since it’s the name of my cat.
And absolutely countless words that sound like Finnish.
かな - chicken
こっき - cook
かっき - childish way of saying poop
もの - basically a ski boot
はな - faucet
はい - shark
えい - no
くら - mud
すし - wolf (it’s said a bit different since it’s “susi” but including it because people joke about it all the time)
さいた - cheap/scrooge
すう - mouth
くう - moon
とり - market
そら - gravel
こえ - test
くみ - rubber
This isn’t about the word itself, just the learning process.
I just got 当たり前 in my lessons. Boom, instantly so many times I remember hearing this word in Japan and glossing over it! I finally know what it means! That made me smile.