Most recent Japanese word you've learned?

Maybe you know, but it is kind of a love/romantic thing. I don’t think it is ever used about 2 dudes sharing an umbrella, haha (unless they are gay of course).

Edit: also there is the meaning of a drawing where you draw an umbrella with your name on the left side and the one you have a crush on/love on the right side.

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I don’t remember saying this. :thinking:

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:stuck_out_tongue:

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Something shady is going on here. Whoever said this also stole my picture, title, membership, and level… :thinking:

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That’s where I learned it from! I also apparently liked this already, so I have an awful memory…

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Hecking reveal yourself, bamboozler!

I should stop using this account to make jokes…

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Maybe it’s a side effect of becoming @Borx

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Are you trying to to say something about me?

chiya-hide
I love this image so much I’m going to use it as often as I can get away with.

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穴場
あなば
hole in the wall - i did not know about this slang before, it was amusing

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言葉つき.
I learnt it about an hour ago on WaniKani.

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internet sites

小惑星 しょうわくせい asteroid

Small delusion star? :hushed::rofl::star_struck:

I love this language.

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Mine is 唐揚げ a.k.a fried chicken :chicken:

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The word “planet” comes from the Greek for “wanderer” so it’s not that far off, though we don’t call asteroids “little planets” the way Japanese does. I guess we think of them as little stars (the “aster” part)

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じてんし or bike, learned from Rosetta Stone. I learned it yesterday and today I was riding my bike and thought of it! It was cool. Not sure what the kanji is for it.

FYI, it’s じてんしゃ
自 self
転 rotation
車 car/wheel

It’s the wheels you turn yourself!

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oh thanks. So it’s actually “jitensha”?
I love the translation haha. Gonna ride my self rotation wheel tomorrow too.

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シマシマ(縞々)= striped; stripes
Learned it last week when gathering with friends and 5 out of 6 of us had striped sweaters.
“今日、みんなシマシマ!”

By the way, also learned the below word at the same time:

縞馬(しまうま)= Zebra
(lit. striped horse :rofl:)

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全て、aka すべて, meaning “all.”

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namae 名前
i’ve always thought that it was too similar to name in English and it was a burrowed word.
it is not.
i have mixed feelings.

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