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

Japanese Language Reading
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Nov 27, Mon of Week 10 of Fall Q4 2023 :maple_leaf:

  • NARUTO Vol.7 Ch.55-59 (start vol)

  • STEINS;GATE (VN) Ch.1

References-- are to be expected.

Words of the day
  • ぽっちゃり. = (on-mim) chubby. Not sure if this is much better than デブ.
  • スルーする. = to ignore someone or something
  • 虫むしが好すかない = disliking. 気きに食くわない.
  • 頭あたまが上あがらない = to be no match for, not on equal basis
  • 腹違はらちがい = different mother; half-sibling. Different 腹はら = uterus.
  • 青眼せいがんに構かまえる = holding one’s sword pointing towards the opponent’s eyes (kendo stance). See also 正眼せいがん.
  • 茶髪ちゃぱつ = brown-dyed hair. Brown (tea) version of 金髪きんぱつ.
  • 戒厳令かいげんれい = martial law. 警戒けいかいを厳げんにする令れい
  • 宮司ぐうじ = head priest
  • 歩行者天国ほこうしゃてんごく = “pedestrian paradise”; pedestrian mall. Blocking a part of a road to make a pedestrian mall.
  • 大幣おおぬさ = that thing to be used for purification (お祓はらい). The second Kanji is from 貨幣かへい.
  • コント. = short skit
  • オンボロ. = worn-out
  • 基板きばん = circuit board. Somehow sounds like motherboard.
  • 半田はんだ = solder, to join metal pieces. Seems to be alloy of tin (Sn) and mercury (Hg). Word origin might be a name.
  • 五月雨さみだれ = early summer rain. In 5th month of the lunar calendar.