8/2/2023 0 Comments Shimo meaning japanese![]() 脇見運転 ( wakimi unten: looking aside while driving taking one’s eyes off the road ahead while driving) Here’s a spinoff word, but the implications change: So if that’s your dog’s reaction to a preliminary scolding, don’t yell further! You won’t get the eye contact you want! As I’ve come to learn from dog trainers and from the excellent book Calming Signals by Turid Rugaas, looking away is actually a dog’s way of deescalating conflict. Either way, she looks off to the side, as if she has nothing to do with the situation at hand. The dog is in trouble-or you want to take her picture. If you have a dog, you’ve seen this a million times. 脇見 ( wakimi: to look away or look aside) side + to look The next word enables you to avoid eye contact: ![]() That is, meandering down a side road can mean “digressing.” I’m happy that this kun-kun compound (which is likely old Japanese) works on both literal and metaphorical levels, as is true in English. 脇道 ( wakimichi: side road, digression) side + road Last week we saw that 脇 can mean “supporting role.” This word conjures up images of the theater, where someone “waiting in the wings” for a chance to say his only line would be very much off to the side. 脇役 ( wakiyaku: supporting role) supporting role + role Time for some fun compounds about life off to the side: ![]() Only question remaining about this: How would you say, “Flank steak on the side, please”?! (If the flank steak were just a tangential offering, you would have to be having a very heavy meal!)Įnough hard work. What a complicated sentence for something that’s easy to convey in English! You might think they’re interchangeable, and in some ways they are 横腹 (yokobara) is another way of saying “flank, side.” But whereas 横になる (yoko ni naru) is a set expression meaning “to lie (horizontally),” there’s no such phrase as 脇になる.Īnother intriguing issue in this sentence: 下 doesn’t have the typical yomi of shita here but is instead shimo. This sentence includes two ways of saying “side”: 脇 and 横 ( yoko, which also popped up at Other Sides). 横になる ( yoko ni naru: to lie (horizontally)) 脇腹 ( wakibara: flank, side) side + abdomen Migiwakibara o shimo ni shite yoko ni natte kudasai. In a blog already chock-full of sample sentences, I’d like to introduce another: Sample Sentence with 脇 as “Back Burner” … Sample Sentences for Things Under the Arms … You can write “side” with a few other kanji. Similarly, Denshi Jisho says that 脇 is NGU, meaning “not in general use.” However, Denshi Jisho also deems 脇 “1806 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers.” Huh?! Wouldn’t that make it very much in general use? And after all, 脇 popped up in a penguin sign meant for Japanese children (unless lots of Japanese adults like to stand next to cardboard cutouts of penguins, comparing heights), so mustn’t this be a well-known kanji?Īdding to the murkiness, 脇 has three meanings: For one thing, Halpern and Henshall have excluded it, because it isn’t a Jōyō character. It turns out that 脇 (waki) simply means “side.” (If you’ve been ardently following the analysis of the penguin sign over the last month, you may have known that already.) Let’s return to the sentence:Īh, the newspaper is by your side, not in your side (unless you managed to impale yourself sideways on something soft and pulpy).īut not everything has become clear, because 脇 (waki) is a funny-dare I say “wacky”?- kanji. When Does the 月 Component Not Mean “Flesh”? …Īs for 力, that means “power.” In fact, it was originally a pictograph of a bulging bicep. ![]() So the newspaper is somewhere in your body?! The “flesh” radical, 月, almost always tells us that we’re talking about the body. Looking at the components of 脇 might help. The newspaper is in your … driveway? Birdcage? Thoughts? Trying to work around it, you would have this: You likely know 新聞 as shinbun (newspaper, new + hearsay), so you could read the whole sentence, except perhaps for one troublesome character smack-dab in the center. Welcome to Kanji Curiosity | The Basics | Glossary
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