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Mosley
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: Vocab Q for Japanese speakers |
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Anyone heard of (I hope I'm romanizing this right) "ichigo ichie"? I don't think it's keigo, per se, but rather a somewhat archaic expression meaning something like" this was a special chance meeting...we may never meet again''. Something like that. If I'm not mistaken, it's written in hiragana rather than kanji. I stand to be corrected on any/all counts. I think I'm in the ball park though.
In case anyone cares, I'm in Korea & I asked the Nihon-go teacher at school about this and she seemed baffled.
Also, if anyone knows of a site where one could go to with Qs like these, I'd be obliged.
Cheers, Mosley |
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Temujin
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Osaka
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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一期一会
One meeting, one opportunity.
I guess it kind of means you have to make the most of every moment.
Bizarrely, I learnt this phrase from a guy getting it etched on to his leg in a tatoo place. |
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Apsara
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Kind of like a Japanese "Seize the day".
It's one of the "yoji-jukugo" or "4 character sayings"- I can never get kanji to come out on this site sorry. There are lots of these expressions written with 4 kanji characters- another would be the Japanese version of "Killing two birds with one stone"- "isseki-nichou".
I think a lot of these expressions ariginally came from Chinese, but I don't think "ichigo-ichie" is particularly archaic, I've heard it a few times. |
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Mosley
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| Cheers! Thanks guys! |
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