📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

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Jan 18, Wed of Week 4 of Winter Q1 2023

• Happiness Vol.8-10 (end series)

The answer is in author note of the last volume.

• うたわれるもの

Interesting words

• いきむ = to bear down during childbirth. Kanji form is 息(いき)む.
• うなされる = to cry out in own’s sleep. Kanji form is 魘(うな)される.
• のめす(.) = to make someone fall forward. Intransitive pair is のめる = to tumble forward.
• こうむる = to receive (damage, kindness). Kanji forms are 被(こうむ)る and 蒙(こうむ)る.
• サンマ = Pacific saury (a kind of fish). Kanji form is 秋刀魚(さんま).
• なれのはて = a ruin of what someone once was. Kanji form is 成(な)れの果(は)て.
• 弄(いじ)くる = to tamper with. Probably similar to 弄(いじ)る. Not sure about 弄(もてあそ)ぶ.
• 華(はな)やぐ = to become cheerful / to prosper
• 粋(いき) = stylish
• 余興(よきょう) = side performance
• 作法(さほう) = etiquette; manners
• 小言(こごと) = scolding
• ひ孫(まご) = great grandson = 曾孫(ひまご) = 曾孫(ひいまご). The 曾(ひい) can also be attached elsewhere, like 曾祖母(ひいばあ)さん.
• 収束(しゅうそく) = resolving to normal / convergence (e.g. of light)
• 還暦(かんれき) = 60th birthday anniversary. Probably I might learn the whole series of this later.
• 命中(めいちゅう) = hitting the mark. Somehow aim/target is a distinctive meaning of 命(めい).
• 交錯(こうさく) = complication (complicate matter). Second Kanji from 錯覚(さっかく).
• 宿願(しゅくがん) = long standing desire
• 俯瞰(ふかん) = bird’s eye view
• 韜晦(とうかい) = concealing one’s talent
• 饗宴(きょうえん) = a feast; banquet. First Kanji is specifically used for banquet.
• 骨董(こっとう) = an antique
• 贋物(にせもの) = counterfeit; forgery = 偽物(にせもの)
• 無知蒙昧(むちもうまい) = ignorant
• 面目躍如(めんもくやくじょ) = demonstrative of one’s worth

SFX

• しみじみ = keenly; deeply; heartily

Kanji

• 曾(ソウ) (曽())

  • formerly
  • Radical “mask” in Level 18
  • ソウ
    • 曾祖父(そうそふ)
  • ひい、ひ
    • 曾祖父(ひいじじ),     曾孫(ひまご)
  • 未曾有(みぞう)

• 弄(ロウ)

  • toy with
  • ロウ
    • 嘲弄(ちょうろう),     玩弄(がんろう),     愚弄(ぐろう),     翻弄(ほんろう)
  • 弄(ろう)する
  • 弄(いじ)る
  • 弄(いじ)くる
  • 弄(もてあそ)ぶ

• 贋(ガン)

  • forgery; fake
  • ガン
    • 贋造(がんぞう),     贋作(がんさく)
    • 真贋(しんがん)
  • にせ
    • 贋物(にせもの)