📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

Japanese Language Reading
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Jan 14, Sat of Week 3 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

I went to Kinokuniya bookstore to see if I can find よつばと in paperback version. I can find latter volumes, but Vol.1 isn’t there. Showcasing of other books is amazing, though. Rather than a Japanese book, I bought a piano book, which is western (and I can’t say I could “read” that).

  • Super Doctor K Vol.2 Ch.1-3

Chapter number (カルテ) restarts to 1. Although current chapters’ mini-story looks separated, later on it connects well with the first volume.

I have some questions about what 手術 wouldn’t do, but not that I care.

  • うたわれるもの
Interesting words
  • なにとぞ = I beg you. Kanji form is 何卒(なにとぞ).
  • 平(ひら)たい = flat. I keep forgetting how to read this one, confusing with 平(たい)ら.
  • 張(は)り詰(つ)める = to make tense (making a tense atmosphere)
  • 込(こ)み入(い)った = complicated. From, 込(こ)み入(い)る = to be complicated; to be entangled.
  • 掠(かす)め取(と)る = to snatch
  • 微々(びび)たるもの = very small amount
  • 拐(かどわ)かす = to kidnap
  • 撃沈(げきちん) = sinking a ship (Battleship)
  • 轟沈(ごうちん) = sinking a ship instantly. First Kanji from 轟(とどろ)く = to rumble; to roar. It sounds forced (強引(ごういん)).
  • 出荷(しゅっか) = shipping; goods delivery
  • 暖簾(のれん) = storefront curtain; reputation
  • 無人(むじん) = uninhabited; unmanned
  • 局所的(きょくしょてき) = local; topical. Sounds like office-level anesthesia.
  • 形相(ぎょうそう) = facial expression. First Kanji uses the reading like 人形(にんぎょう).
  • 見納(みおさ)め = a farewell look; a parting look; a last look
  • 不随(ふずい) = paralysis. So, 下半身不随(かはんしんふずい) becomes paraplegia (cannot move lower body).
  • 厚紙(あつがみ) = cardboard. Compared with 段(だん)ボール, but the latter is also corrugated.
  • 元凶(げんきょう) = main culprit
  • 病巣(びょうそう) = lesion; focus of the disease (like infected part)
  • 血(ち)のり = affixed blood = 血糊(ちのり). Perhaps think of sticking blood as a glue (のり).
  • 血痕(けっこん) = bloodstain. Somehow sounds like marriage (結婚(けっこん))?
  • 気分(きぶん)がすぐれない = to be in poor health. It is indeed 優(すぐ)れる. Negative form can also be used with something else, like 健康(けんこう) and 天気(てんき).
  • 申(もう)し分(ぶん)のない = nothing to criticize
  • 気(き)の抜(ぬ)けた = lifeless (face). From 気(き)が抜(ぬ)ける = to feel a letdown.

SFX

  • パックリ = gaping wide (of a wound in this case), like Pac-Man’s mouth. From パクパク.
  • つくづく = attentively
  • わらわら = bustling in of crowd unorganizedly = ばらばら
  • 延々(えんえん) = endlessly

Kanji

  • 轟(とどろ)く
    • ゴウ
      • 轟音(ごうおん),     轟然(ごうぜん),     轟々(ごうごう)
      • 轟沈(ごうちん)
  • 暖(あたた)かい (ダン) (Level 32)
    • ノン
      • のんき,     暖簾(のれん)
  • 誘拐(ゆうかい) (カイ) (Level 54)
    • 拐(さら)う
    • 拐(かどわ)かす
Replies

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