Oteage (お手上げ – Getting Stuck)
Oteage お手上げ When you get stuck or surrender, it can be expressed as oteage (お手上げ) in Japanese. 行き詰まってどうしようもなくなることや、降参することを、「お手上げ」と表現することがあります。 Since o
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Learning English and Japanese
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intention
Shoshi Kantetsu (初志貫徹 – Carrying out Your Original Intention)
Shoshi Kantetsu 初志貫徹 Today I would like to introduce my favorite four-character idiom shoshi kantetsu (初志貫徹). 今日は私の好きな四字熟語「初志貫徹」を紹介します。 Sho (初) means
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Yabusaka dehanai
Japanese people tend to avoid direct expressions, and use euphemism/ambiguous ones in daily communication. やぶさかではない You may think that it’s
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Ishi (Stone / Doctor / Inclination / Intention)
Ishi いし Today, I’d like to talk about the Japanese word “ishi”, which has several meanings and kanji. 今日は複数の意味と漢字を持つ「いし」を紹介します。 “石”
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