I have a japanese partner and today I told her that I recently learnt a new word: 里心。But apparently you don’t really use it. You’ll use ホームシック instead. :confused:

Point taken, and I can totally understand that. But when there is a choice of picking a word which is less frequent and one that is more frequent. It seems like the choice should fall towards the word that is more frequent, ie 里心 vs 里子. That said, I don’t know at all why this particular word was ch…

[image] argparse: It seems like the choice should fall towards the word that is more frequent, ie 里心 vs 里子. That is definitely sound a sound argument, and WK tends to be open to feedback like that. You can shoot them an email at hello@wk.com about this, and they might add it to their list of …

My teacher (who’s Japanese) told me that 里心 means a longing for an old fashioned (in a good sense) way of living. Ah, the good old days! It seems to be a little bit nostalgic too.

Wanikani teaches some words that are very unusual but distinctive, and help in remembering the kanji readings. This is especially true for kanji that only have one or two common words they’re used in, so the WK folks have to do some reaching to find other examples. My impression is they want to have…

I think it’s difficult to come up with a more distinctive word than 金玉. :slight_smile: Especially with the backstory that comes with it. (As an aside, 金玉 still more frequent than 里心 :wink: ). Either way, this is not the hill I’m going to die on.

I found this story by @Naphthalene really amusing: [image] Japanese People Constantly Tell Me No One Uses These Words Speaking By the way, is this the right thread to mention that I heard 里心 (the poster child of “no one use that word”) in a casual conversation the other da…

Tell them that you’re trying to “bring it back.” We could also say that, since the Japanese like using English words on their shirts and such(so I’ve heard), it’s a cultural thing. They’re using a loan word, instead.

I had a similar experience as you… but with an interesting take away point. Everyone enjoys learning new vocabulary :slight_smile: Not just us crazy wanikani’ers.

How do you say “trying to bring it back (into fashion)” in Japanese? :laughing:

This is it. This is the Wanikani thread.

TIL 里心 is rarely used

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sansarret February 4, 2020, 8:41pm 12

I found this story by @Naphthalene really amusing:

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TIL 里心 is rarely used

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