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I’ve got a new word for fanfic writers to use, brought to you by todays word of the day:
example sentence: she gazed into his smaragdine orbs
obama chuckled. “you mean the chaos smaragdines?”
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874/2000
JLPT: N2
School Grade: 5th (10 years old)
This character was formerly written 壓, a combination of 土 ground/earth and 厭 a non-general use character meaning “satiated.” 厭 originally meant “to be satiated with sweet dog meat,” which over time came to mean “be bloated,” with connotations of “ready to burst” and, therefore, “pressure.” In the case of 壓, 厭 is also working phonetically to express “push/press.” Some scholars feel that 壓 originally meant “earth pressing as if to burst,” as in a cave-in, while others feel it meant “push with earth,” as in attempting to reinforce defensive earthworks. Over time, the idea of earth faded, leaving “press/pressure” in general. In its current form 厭 has been simplified to simply 厂 the cliff radical.
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211/2000
JLPT: N4
School Grade: 2nd (7 years old)
This character is made up of 亲 hazelnut tree and 見 see. 亲 is a phonetic element while 見 provides semantic meaning.
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Anonymous asked:
What was that word again that describes people who hoard/collect books? Not necessarily to read them either.
Tsundoku 積ん読 (つんどく) is a Japanese word (informal) for the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books.
It is the way one buys books and not reading them at all, letting them pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands.
tsundoku: compound of 積む (tsumu, “to pile up”) + 読 (doku, “to read, reading”); contraction of 積んでおく (tsunde oku, “to leave piled up”)
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Do you have a word for someone who loves beauty or craves beautiful things? Thank you, I love your blog
(n.) a lover of beauty; someone who finds and appreciates beauty in all things
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786/2000
JLPT: N1
School Grade: High School
The logic behind this character’s composition is somewhat confused, though it originally was a combination of 早 a spoon and 止 feet.
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wordsnquotes
aeipathy
(noun) A lost word, an aeipathy is classified as an unyielding passion or love of something or someone. A passion so strong that it could be considered pathological; it withstands, time, doubt, and change. (via wordsnquotes)
Source: wordsnquotes.com
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