Nihongoism
Bob Myers, SakikoEncounters with the Japanese Language
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Kotsukotsu: working slowly and steadily
こつこつ (kotsukotsu): steadily, bit by bit is your mimetic Japanese word of the day!
こつこつ means to work on something slowly, steadily, patiently, or diligently.
Readers of this publication are probably こつこつ日本語を勉強している (kotsukotsu nihongo wo b...
Moyamoya: hazy weather, tangled emotions
Here is your mimetic Japanese word of the day.
もやもや (moyamoya): hazy, vaguely uneasy
This is also the name of a disease found and named by Japanese doctors in the 1960s: モヤモヤ病, or moyamoya disease. It once struck a person I know well....
Jirojiro: staring, the rude kind
Here is your mimetic Japanese word of the day from Pera Pera.
じろじろ (jirojiro): staring
じろじろ is looking someone over openly and without letting up. It’s always the rude kind of staring, the kind that makes the person on the other end squir...
What is the sound of rippling waves?
What is the sound of wavelets rippling? More than two thousand years ago, speakers of proto-Japonic called this sarasara, and in 2026 Japanese uses the very same word.
As you know, we’ve now started a new “section” of Nihongoism, called Pe...
Sarasara: dry and smooth
Here is your mimetic Japanese word of the day from Pera Pera: sarasara.
さらさら (sarasara) describes silky hair that your fingers run through easily. It can mean how the hair feels, the hair itself, or even the faint sound of stroking the hai...
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