📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 🧣🍂🍁

Japanese Language Reading
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Dec 26, Tue of Week 14 of Fall Q4 2023 :maple_leaf:

  • いちばんやさしい世界史の本 (18-20%)

  • STEINS;GATE (VN) Ch.5

Words of the day
  • ピント.がずれる = to miss the point. ピント is for focus.
  • 力ちからこぶを作つくる = to flex one’s biceps. Making use with 力ちからこぶを入いれる.
  • 筋すじを通とおす = to proceed in a proper manner (method; channel)
  • 顔色かおいろを窺うかがう = to watch for partner’s reaction. Also 顔色がんしょくを窺うかがう.
  • 上気じょうき = flush; have a rush of blood to the head
  • 巻末かんまつ = end of a book
  • 帰依きえ = becoming a (devout) believer
  • 玄奘げんじょう = Xuanzang - Wikipedia, the monk that Journeyed to the West. Also called 三蔵法師さんぞうほうし.
  • 開祖かいそ = (sect) founder; father of
  • 戯曲ぎきょく = drama; play
  • 十進法じっしんほう = decimal system. N進法しんほう is the number (radix) system.
  • 解脱げだつ = Moksha - Wikipedia, liberation from earthly desires and the woes of man
  • 出家しゅっけ = entering monkhood
  • 大乗仏教だいじょうぶっきょう = Mahayana Buddhism. The other side of the term is 小乗仏教しょうじょうぶっきょう.
  • 掛かけ声ごえ = an enthusiastic shout
  • 暗黙あんもくの了解りょうかい = tacit understanding. In other words, 不文律ふぶんりつ.
  • 走査そうさ = scanning, like of a fax or a TV, like using a light beam
  • 既成概念きせいがいねん = stereotype; preconceived notion