The Oxford English Dictionary's latest update adds 23 Japanese words

by aminon 4/3/2024, 12:37 PMwith 4 comments

by jmhollaon 4/3/2024, 10:36 PM

The article doesn't dive into all the words (it only covers eight of them). I found them in a different article https://maynkmodi.substack.com/p/23-new-japanese-words-made-...:

> donburi, hibachi, isekai, kagome, karaage, katsu,curry, kintsugi, kirigami, mangaka, okonomiyaki, omotenashi, onigiri, santoku, shibori, takoyaki, tokusatsu, tonkatsu sauce, tonkotsu, washi tape, yakiniku

(katsu and tonkatsu have two definitions.)

by 082349872349872on 4/3/2024, 3:18 PM

my current favourite bit of japanese: 関係ない(kankeinai)

"this is superfluous: its connection with what we are talking about has a weight ~0"