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

Japanese Language Reading
564

Oct 29, Sun of Week 5 of Fall Q4 2023 :maple_leaf:

  • -ATRI- : +3.8k

  • NARUTO Vol.4 Ch.34-36 :hourglass_flowing_sand: (end volume)

  • Fatal Twelve : +6k

  • 超ビジュアル!日本の歴史大事典 : 0-7%

Words of the day
  • ジャカジャカ(.) = noisy (guitar) :guitar:
  • 愚痴(ぐち) = complaint; grumbling => グチグチ
  • ノーマーク(.) = “no mark”; off the radar
  • 赤(あか)の他人(たにん) = complete stranger. Opposite of 身内(みうち).
  • 濃(こ)ゆい = thick
  • 隅(すみ)に置(お)けない = cunning; being deep; smooth operator = 軽視(けいし)できない.
  • 再起不能(さいきふのう) = beyond recovery
  • 灯台下暗(とうだいもとくら)し = being dark under the lamp post :candle:. Lighthouse? Under the nose?
  • 抜(ぬ)き足(あし) = stealthy steps :ninja: :footprints:
  • 受(う)け持(も)ち = in charge
  • 㐧 = ryakuji for 第(だい)
  • ガニ股(また) = bowleg; shaped like an O. Yeah, it’s 蟹股(がにまた), while :crab: is normally 蟹(かに) :crabigator:.
  • 虫唾(むしず)が走(はし)る = to feel disgusted. IME only lets me type 虫酸(むしず)が走(はし)る, though.
  • 笹竹(ささたけ) = small bamboo
  • ヒエ = Japanese barnyard millet = 稗(ひえ) :ear_of_rice:. A different kind of millet (foxtail) is 粟(あわ).
  • 田植(たう)え = rice planting