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Jan 1, Sun of Week 1 of Winter Q1 2023

• はたらく細胞 Black Vol.1 Ch.2-3

Ch.2 is this mechanism. Someone tried to 肝試し, but 落胆 – I was confused with the two Kanji’s a little.
Ch.3 is serious business and consequences.

• うたわれるもの

Interesting words

• ゆくゆく = someday. Kanji form is 行(ゆ)く行(ゆ)く
• いたたまれない = feeling like running away. From 居(いた)た堪(ま)れない.
• 営(いとな)む = to run a business
• 和(やわ)らぐ = to be mitigated; to be softened
• 荒(すさ)む = to grow wild. I also recall 凄(すさ)まじい here.
• 気(き)がある = to have an interest in / to incline towards
• 見据(みす)える = to stare fixedly at
• 疚(やま)しい = feeling conscient; feeling unsure. From 病(や)む.
• 老(お)いぼれ = old man
• 束(つか)の間(ま) = a brief moment
• 虜(とりこ) = captive; prisoner. No Furigana.
• 心酔(しんすい) = adoration
• 羞恥(しゅうち) = sense of shame
• 店構(みせがま)え = storefront appearance
• 素(す)っ頓狂(とんきょう) = freakish. Similar to 頓狂(とんきょう).
• 有意義(ゆういぎ) = important
• 執務室(しつむしつ) = the office
• 市井(しせい) = the streets, just like 巷(ちまた). Yet another On reading of 井.
• 伊達(だて) = elegantly. Has Furigana.
• 土台(どだい) = foundation / the beginning
• 誘発(ゆうはつ) = inducing
• 分解(ぶんかい) = disassembly
• 酵素(こうそ) = enzyme
• 代謝(たいしゃ) = metabolism
• 胆汁(たんじゅう) = bile. Such is On reading for お汁(しる).
• 多彩(たさい) = various kinds of
• 膵臓(すいぞう) = pancreas. Probably this organ’s islets of Langerhans are like jade greenery (翡翠(ひすい))?
• 類洞(るいどう) = sinusoid of liver. Probably from cave of various ends?
• 帳簿(ちょうぼ) = account book, about money or stocks
• 貯蔵(ちょぞう) = storage
• 睾丸(こうがん) = testicles. See, 金玉(きんたま).
• 充塡(じゅうてん) = filling up; loading. Similar to 充填(じゅうてん), just another Kanji form.
• 平滑筋(へいかつきん) = smooth muscle. Opposite is 横紋筋(おうもんきん).
• 緩和(かんわ) = mitigation; lightening the burden = 和(やわ)らぐこと
• 迎(むか)え酒(ざけ) = alcohol drinking in the morning to mitigate hangovers
• 百戦錬磨(ひゃくせんれんま) = veteran. Trained and polished by hundred battles.
• 文武両道(ぶんぶりょうどう) = both accomplished of literary and military arts
• 清廉潔白(せいれんけっぱく) = spotless integrity; unselfish. I am not accustomed to the second Kanji and 清廉(せいれん).

SFX

• ゲシゲシ = kicking kicking
• チョンと = poking sound

Kanji

• 卯(う)

  • zodiac of rabbit
  • う
    • 卯年(うどし),     卯月(うづき)
    • 卯建(うだつ)
      • うだつが上(あ)がらない

• 填(テン) (塡)

  • fitting in
  • 塡 is the official form. 填 is a variant. (Old and new forms of 真.)
  • テン
    • 充填(じゅうてん)
  • 填(は)める

• 廉(レン) (Level 60)

  • pure and clear
    • 清廉(せいれん),     廉潔(れんけつ)

• 井(ジョウ) (Level 45)

  • セイ
    • 油井(ゆせい),     市井(しせい)
    • 井然(せいぜん)