It sounds like you have a font issue since what WK has for ocean is exactly the same 海 on every device I’ve checked.
死んだ目 (しんだめ) meaning dead eyes.
I learnt it whilst watching a native Japanese guy critique the Japanese of various different YouTubers. He reffered to how a guys active eye movement made him seem like someone he’d want to be friends with. Where as people who don’t really talk with their eyes and instead just have a straight on stare when they speak seem to have these dead eyes.
I learned
共和国 - republic
or more specifically
南アフリカ共和国 - The Republic of South Africa
courtesy of DHL and Amazon Japan.
I’m not confusing them. Look really closely at the word I spelled out, and you will see what I mean.
Yeah, you’re seeing it in a font either for Chinese or a font using the old character form.
I only see:
Yup, as @athomasm mentioned above, that’s the old character form, which means you’re probably using a Chinese font or something.
That is so weird. I have a Japanese keyboard and everything?
Unless you get a phone in Japan, most phones will display Chinese fonts instead of Japanese fonts on default. It’s a known issue.
I use SwiftKey on my phone. It is the easiest so far I have found to switch between English and Japanese. But, I may have a font issue with it??
Wow! I had no idea. I tried every way of typing it, and could not get it to look right!
星間
Interstellar
Any suggestions for a keyboard then?
Chrome, at least in my experience, is pretty bad about rendering Japanese with the wrong font. I used to get just as confused as you did since the kanji would look nothing like what I would expect when I would jump on Chrome to use this site. It seems to default to fonts that use old character form for Japanese.
The problem isn’t with a keyboard, but with system settings, and ultimately with the Han Unification thing that Unicode has going.
(Ie, it’s not a bad idea to get familiar with how Chinese fonts display things)
That’s super strange, I just tested this out on my phone and I can confirm that Chrome displays the chinese variant while Firefox displays it in japanese.
Safari as well does it consistently correct.
Aha! Adding Japanese after English under the language settings in Android fixes the problem. @Greenfire311
叶う (かなう) - to come true (of a wish, prayer, etc.)
叶える (かなえる) - to grant a wish
Mnemonic: I told (口) a cross (十): “I want a car, NOW!”
Moments later, a car fell down from the sky and landed on top of me.
