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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Hanzi on an earring
https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/1mnld9j/unknown_english_maybe_chinese_a_charm_youre/
I saw some chinese characters ona friend's earrings. I tried to remember as best as I could.
It had 順 on the top and 治 on the bottom.
It helped to spot them on https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji
I came across this while looking for this (List of the 1006 Kanji that Japanese students must learn in six years of elementary school)
https://x.com/DrSchwamborn/status/2044927609809801514/photo/1
https://safiria.net/nihongo/The%20Complete%20Guide%20to%20Japanese%20Kanji.pdf
https://x.com/hiragananinja/status/1608149095092457472/photo/1 - kanji witj meaning
ロッキ
私たちの一日はロッキーにえさをあげることから始まります。
Watashitachi no ichinichi wa Rokkī ni esa o ageru koto kara hajimarimasu.
Our day begins with feeding Rocky.
彼は食べるのがとても早く、初日に食べすぎて吐いてしまいました。
それから私たちは、空気を飲み込みすぎないように、少しずつえさをあげるようになりました。
Kare wa taberu no ga totemo hayaku, shonichi ni tabesugite haite shimaimashita.
Sore kara watashitachi wa, kūki o nomikomi suginai yō ni, sukoshi zutsu esa o ageru yō ni narimashita.
He eats very fast, and on the first day he ate too much and threw up.
After that, we learned to feed him little by little so he wouldn’t swallow too much air while eating.
歯が生え始めているので、食べる以外にもいろいろなものをかみたがります。
ある日、ソファの後ろに行ってコンセントのプラグをかんでしまいました。
そこは狭い場所だったので、後ろずさりして戻ってきました。その様子がとてもおかしかったです。
Ha ga hae hajimete iru node, taberu igai ni mo iroirona mono o kamitagarimasu.
Aru hi, sofa no ushiro ni itte konsento no puragu o kande shimaimashita.
Soko wa semai basho datta node, ushiro-zusari shite modotte kimashita. Sono yōsu ga totemo okashikatta desu.
Because he is teething, besides eating he likes to chew on many things.
One day, he went behind the sofa and bit the electrical plug.
Since it was a tight space, he had to back out and walk backward to get out. It looked very funny.
家族でテーブルを囲んで食事をしているとき、彼は自分だけ仲間はずれになりたくないようです。
ソファにもたれて私たちのほうを向き、家族の楽しい時間に参加しようとします。
Kazoku de tēburu o kakonde shokuji o shite iru toki, kare wa jibun dake nakama hazure ni naritakunai yō desu.
Sofa ni motarete watashitachi no hō o muite, kazoku no tanoshii jikan ni sanka shiyō to shimasu.
When we are eating together as a family around the table, he doesn’t want to be left out.
He leans on the sofa and faces us, trying to join our family fun time.
新しい家族の一員は大変なことも多いですが、とても楽しいです。
Atarashii kazoku no ichiin wa taihen na koto mo ōi desu ga, totemo tanoshii desu.
Our new family member is a lot of work, but also a lot of fun.
Our day begins with feeding Rocky.
He eats very fast, and on the first day he ate too much and threw up.
After that, we learned to feed him little by little so he wouldn’t swallow too much air while eating.
Because he is teething, besides eating he likes to chew on many things.
One day, he went behind the sofa and bit the electrical plug.
Since it was a tight space, he had to back out and walk backward to get out. It looked very funny.
When we are eating together as a family around the table, he doesn’t want to be left out.
He leans on the sofa and faces us, trying to join our family fun time.
Our new family member is a lot of work, but also a lot of fun.
Vocabulary List (Grouped by Parts of Speech)
🟦 Nouns (名詞)
- 家族（かぞく） – family
- 一日（いちにち） – one day / day
- 食事（しょくじ） – meal
- 初日（しょにち） – first day
- 歯（は） – tooth
- 餌（えさ） – animal food
- 空気（くうき） – air
- プラグ（ぷらぐ） – plug
- コンセント – electrical outlet
- ソファ – sofa
- 場所（ばしょ） – place
- 様子（ようす） – situation / appearance
- 一員（いちいん） – member
- 時間（じかん） – time
🟩 Verbs (動詞)
- 始まる（はじまる） – to begin
- あげる – to give / feed (animals)
- 食べる（たべる） – to eat
- 吐く（はく） – to vomit
- 飲み込む（のみこむ） – to swallow
- 生える（はえる） – to grow (teeth)
- かむ（噛む） – to bite / chew
- 行く（いく） – to go
- 戻る（もどる） – to return
- 囲む（かこむ） – to surround
- 参加する（さんかする） – to join
- 向く（むく） – to face
- もたれる – to lean
- かみたがる – to want to bite
- かんでしまう – to end up biting (accidentally/completely)
- 飲み込む（のみこむ） – to swallow
🟨 Adjectives (い・な形容詞)
- 早い（はやい） – fast
- 狭い（せまい） – narrow / tight
- おかしい – funny / strange
- 楽しい（たのしい） – fun
- 大変（たいへん） – difficult / hard
- 新しい（あたらしい） – new
🟪 Expressions / Grammar
- 〜から始まる – to begin with
- 〜てしまう – to do something accidentally / completely
- 〜ようになる – to start doing / come to do
- 〜ようです – it seems that
- 〜ようにする – to try to do
- 〜たがる – to want to do (someone else’s desire)
- 〜以外（いがい） – except / other than
- 少しずつ – little by little
- 自分だけ – only oneself
- 仲間はずれ – being left out
🟧 Adverbs (副詞)
- とても – very
- いろいろ – various
- ある日 – one day
- すぎる – too much (as part of grammar)
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Tiny art contest
I wanted to draw a white cup with green tea in it. Oh boy! is it hard to paint a cup.
A pet
Just like we bemoan the childhood days lost of our little children and their acts, its true of puppies too, they grow fast. 3 days and 3 weeks in.
A pet tunes us to the farmer schedule of beginning with cleaning up and feeding in the morning. In Japanese class, we learned a lesson that esa is pet food and the mom calls on the son to wake up early and feed the pets.
