Great Kanji words

gibosi Member

Registered: 2006-09-01 Posts: 116

I got a kick out of this one:

無茶むちゃ No tea??!!! Nonsense!! This is absurd!! ^^

gibosi Member

Registered: 2006-09-01 Posts: 116

Hmmm... I have been a member since September, 2006, and I still a "New Member"???

tenken3 Member

Registered: 2006-09-25 Posts: 15

The title depends on your post count, not the join date

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dilandau23 Member

From: Japan Registered: 2006-09-13 Posts: 330

痴漢
Hmmmmmmmmmm.

HerrPetersen Member

From: Germany Registered: 2007-01-02 Posts: 238

so what is a "stupid sino"?

yorkii Member

From: Moriya, Ibaraki Registered: 2005-10-26 Posts: 408 Website

basically a pervert. someone who hides in bushes and sexually attacks women/children.

strange how the 漢 has links to china. I wonder if including it in this word is a deliberate racial slur..?

yorkii Member

From: Moriya, Ibaraki Registered: 2005-10-26 Posts: 408 Website

found a wiki entry for it actually:

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%97%B4%E6%BC%A2

doesn't mention anything about the use of 漢字 as far as I can see.

JimmySeal Member

From: Kyoto Registered: 2006-03-28 Posts: 2279

Looks like it's a Chinese word:

Link

On the other hand, the Chinese wikipedia entry says it's from Japanese, so they may be the ones who gave it its current meaning and put it into widesperad use.

Last edited by JimmySeal (2007 June 17, 8:08 pm)

HerrPetersen Member

From: Germany Registered: 2007-01-02 Posts: 238

I really like this one: 吸血鬼

brose Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2006-11-15 Posts: 94

yorkii wrote:
basically a pervert. someone who hides in bushes and sexually attacks women/children.

strange how the 漢 has links to china. I wonder if including it in this word is a deliberate racial slur..?

漢 can be used for person, as in　巨漢 (giant). I don't think it has anything to do with China.

dilandau23 Member

From: Japan Registered: 2006-09-13 Posts: 330

brose wrote:
漢 can be used for person, as in　巨漢 (giant). I don't think it has anything to do with China.

My point was not really to suggest that the Japanese have some sort of deep resentment for the Chinese. I just wanted to suggest that the RTK keywords, in this case, made for a humorous compound.

yorkii Member

From: Moriya, Ibaraki Registered: 2005-10-26 Posts: 408 Website

ok. I too wasn't claiming that there was a link to china, just curious to see if there was or not.

synewave Member

From: Susono, Japan Registered: 2006-06-23 Posts: 864 Website

Was watching the news last night and was stunned when I realised I've lived in Japan for over 4 years but only now realized that Mitsubishi has the kanji 三菱。 Oooh, the power of keywords!

yorkii Member

From: Moriya, Ibaraki Registered: 2005-10-26 Posts: 408 Website

hehe, was a nice revelation when I discovered that a little while back, too. Keywords FTW.

mukade Member

From: japan Registered: 2007-07-06 Posts: 16

It is this season again...花火　（はなび）。A nice idea for fireworks.

ファブリス Administrator

From: Belgium Registered: 2006-06-14 Posts: 4021 Website

yorkii wrote:
It is this season again...花火　（はなび）。A nice idea for fireworks.

I learnt that one in the "Kakitori Kun..." game on DS, which appeared with it's alter-ego :

火花

synewave Member

From: Susono, Japan Registered: 2006-06-23 Posts: 864 Website

In Conan I came across the word 蛇口（じゃぐち） - faucet. Nice image Makes me think of a bathroom in the Malfoy household.

ruisu Member

From: New York Registered: 2007-09-04 Posts: 53 Website

I was timing a fansub, and came across this: 指先　（ゆびさき）　finger - before

Ok, I probably shouldn't be in this thread yet. [disappears]

Laura Member

Registered: 2007-03-24 Posts: 87

I like 適量がフィットするダイアル式　from a Shiseido lipstick ad.

snallygaster Member

Registered: 2007-06-11 Posts: 98

I really like 泥棒 (どろぼう, "thief"). "mud rod" just sounds like a great insult you might hurl at someone, say, who just snatched your hat away. Picture a cut scene from Napoleon Dynamite or Bevis & Butthead. "Give it back, mudrod!"

vosmiura Member

From: SF Bay Area Registered: 2006-08-24 Posts: 1085

I really get satisfaction finding how to write words that I already knew, because it makes the onyomi stick so easily. 写真しゃしん　photograph = copy + true.

nac_est Member

From: Italy Registered: 2006-12-12 Posts: 617 Website

vosmiura wrote:
I really get satisfaction finding how to write words that I already knew, because it makes the onyomi stick so easily. 写真しゃしん　photograph = copy + true.

Yes! It's the same for me too! When I finished RTK1 and started learning vocabulary, I already knew a lot of words. Discovering the way to write them in kanji was so much fun. It's happening even now.
A cool compound word is 裁判（さいばん）, trial (tailor+judgement).

billyclyde Member

Registered: 2007-05-21 Posts: 192

Read this in a book today: this girl's traveling, and is looking to take a bath in an onsen, but:

チケット売り場は長蛇（ちょうだ）の列で，チケットを買うのにも随分と時間がかかる。

Wonderfully visual, even though I didn't know the reading.

johnzep Member

From: moriya, ibaraki Registered: 2006-05-14 Posts: 373

白血球　はっけっきゅう
赤血球　せっけっきゅう

White Blood Ball...Red Blood Ball...makes sense. And I like how the readings have a lot of small tsu's

playadom Member

Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 468

I like 密輸 (みつゆ）　Secrecy Transport - smuggling

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