じょうろ - 如雨露 - watering pot
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日本
Japan
日- sun
本-origin
Land of the rising sun
As of recently I’ve primarily been learning not very exciting words that use simple kanji like 京師、笑止、一日千秋 or just medical terms, but I just came across 矍鑠 which is pretty neat. Two kanji ive never seen before.
Also not really a word, but 幽霊の正体見たり枯れ尾花 as well.
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I was messing around on a Japanese webpage earlier and I stumbled upon a login page and realised the log in button said
“ログインする”
which I guess makes sense, する just means to do, so it makes ‘login’ into a verb (to login) but I hadn’t really thought about it before so I’ll put it here anyway
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実入り － みいり － crop harvest, income
Makes sense. Fruit, insert. Harvesting crops or acquiring something of value.
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か細い - かぼそい - skinny; fragile
So mean of this word to start with what looks like a particle 
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You see it and remember it or forget it and look it up again next time 
I don’t have time for any more SRS, I never SRS’d English words and grew my vocabulary anway 
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income*
はいり is inserting
いり is entering (or content, or as it is used here, income)
二枚目半 = man who is both handsome and fun
Seems to originate from 2.5枚目 = (二枚目 + 三枚目) / 2
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ぽかぽか pleasant warmth like a mildly breezy day with warm sunshine (aka today)
ホカホカ soft and pleasant like perfectly cooked fluffy rice
(went with the ime’s first choice)
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チャイ, which is indeed 茶, but from India / Central, Near and Middle East Asia, and is boiled milked red tea with spices
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抜ける ・ ぬける ・ to fall out
祠 ・ ほこら ・ small shrine (been watching so many BOTW playthroughs I’m never gonna forget this one)
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小さい子
little kids
Is this reading literally ryou psycho
Are you asking about the reading of 小さい子? 小さい is “chiisai”, so there’s no ryou.
Ya. 
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すう学/Mathematics(Study of math)
I should’ve been learned it, but I surprisingly just found out about the word when writing new folder labels for school.
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横腹 - flank
The side (横) of your belly 腹) is your flank, or simply your side.
Readings: よこばら / よこっぱら
The reading is the kun’yomi readings of either kanji put together, but there’s a rendaku as well. The second reading is usually rendered in kanji as 横っ腹 with a small つ, allowing you to distinguish either readings easily.
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演劇 - drama; theatre; theater; play
I teach in Japan and my students have a culture activity, when I asked what they were doing teachers were saying that students will watch a drama. Now, drama typically means the genre of TV shows. However, I found out later they meant we’re all going to the theater to watch a play!
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Earlier today I forgot the word 動員, then I encountered it twice in the Japanese news and was able to understand much more as a result. Ol’ Baader-Meinhof, at it again!
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