Most recent Japanese word you've learned?

Lol hshahajsh

Good to know! I understood the general meaning, but subtleties like that are too over my level currently.

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教えてくん (someone who asks others for answers without first researching by himself)

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暖簾 - curtains at the entrance of a restaurant, izakaya, etc. (and inside) acting as separators.

全能 - almighty, omnipotent

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種 - seeds

Learned from Wakikani on a day I was starting seeds for my herb garden.

昨日、バジルの種を植えた。育ているかな。。。

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親睦 - friendship, amity
深める - to deepen

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健康 - けんこう - health

From raindrop’s study log. Apparently it’s a level 27 vocab so I’ll learn it in about 3 months!

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紅一点(こういってん)

  1. the lone woman (e.g. bright flower) in a group​

人質(ひとじち)

  1. hostage
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二度寝 - going back to sleep after waking up
点呼 - roll-call, muster
助長 - promotion, fostering

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I just learned that “partial fraction decomposition” is 部分分数分解. That’s a lot of parts and understanding.

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I don’t think there’s any understanding there, I think it’s all parts :smile:

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ダンゴムシ - pillbug

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欠如(けつじょ)- 1. lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation​

交流会(こうりゅうかい)- 1. gathering; mixer; meetup; assembly; social; exchange meeting​

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探り合い sounding each other out, probing each other

Related to the teacher shift change, because we have to wait another 30 minutes until the results officially are announced, but now everyone is just nervously looking at each other for tells of “oh are you maybe leaving? staying? What grade are you looking at now on the computer?” body language style

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あおかん - can either mean sleeping under the stars, or public sex…

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It’s more like a mix of learning new vocabulary/kanji and a realisation. I wondered for some time why in Sailor Moon Mercury and Mars were respectivly represented by water and fire. Then I learned 水星 and 火星 :sweat_smile:

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I learnt that 番 can also be used to say when it’s your turn. Learnt from Yakuza 私の番です or 俺の番. Not a big one but useful for games when they say it over and over. :joy:

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It is actually a big one. :eyes:

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That sounds like a wide disparity, but I suppose they mean “sleeping” in the sex meaning, because it only means 野外での性行為. Which makes sense with the meaning of 姦. There’s nothing about actual sleep in the two kanji, 青姦.

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まやかし - 1. deception; make-believe; fake; counterfeit; phony​
輪郭(りんかく)

  1. contour; outline; silhouette​
  2. summary; outline; sketch​
  3. looks; features​
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