Japanese Word of the Day

はちきん (hachikin)

This is a word in Tosa-ben, the local dialect in Kochi prefecture. The etymology is "hachi," eight, and "kin," gold... apparently that leads to "eight golden balls" (I don't know where the balls come from). It means a strong woman.

What is the deal with women having to have balls to be strong? It bugs me. I don't want any male anatomy, thank you very much.



I taught English for about 7 hours today and now my voice is cracking and I turned down a chance to go dancing with new cool acquaintances because I am sooooo tired. Too bad.

Japanese Word/Phrase of the Day

らっぱ飲み　(rappa nomi)

Literally, trumpet drinking; it means drinking wine directly from the bottle.

Please use it often in your daily life. (よく使ってください！)

Yeah, that was just showing off. So what!

Japanese Word of the Day

Today's word is むぼう (mubou).

As an adjective (mubou no), it means "hatless; bareheaded."
Describing a state of being (mubou de), it means "without a hat; with one's head uncovered."

In kanji (Chinese characters) it is written 無帽.A homonym is 無謀, which means "reckless(ly), rash(ly), thoughtless(ly)."

Most days I am むぼう... I'll leave it up to you to decide which kanji that should be written in.