I was on the toilet, scrolling through Google news (No, *NOT* to actually learn anything but for the hell of it) and came across a website, which claimed to present the easiest Kanji’s to remember. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until I got to the 7th or so spot on the list. It was 凸.
To say I shat my nonexistent britches was an understatement. “Why is it so..straight? Why does it look like a shape in mathematics?!”, I thought to myself. I am as you can imagine very upset, I’m literally shaking and crying and shidding and pissing.
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I wish I could see your reaction when you find out about 凸凹.
This reads like a r/languagelearningjerk post
So this is why the Wanikani TOS requires you to wear an adult diaper. I had wondered.
it’s easy but I had an easy time with 尿, which means “urine”
it’s “water” under a giant letter “P”
gee how convenient
It makes sense bc if you put them together it makes a nice lil rectangle
Shidding and farding right now
Another one that is easy to memorize is 閂.
And the spoiler tag got me cracking up.
Fun fact 凸 is being used in a lot of gacha games for the limit break of characters. I don’t know why though
I get really annoyed by the fact 凸 means convex but it’s actually a concave polygon
Props to 凹 for meaning concave and actually being concave
I recently watched the Gintama arc about the “Church of 凸凹”. I don’t think I’ll forget these kanji now!
THE MIDDLE FINGER KANJI 凸凸凸
I learned those while playing tetris
I remember getting so mad when seeing these for the first time. Never learned them in my four years of Japanese in high school. Like, what the hell are these???? Those aren’t kanji they’re shapes! *Where’s the complexity???*
Looking at them makes me so uncomfortable
Pretty sure you were just playing space invaders
tetris kanji
tetris kanji
I know that kanji exist, I am a native speaker. I only used it once myself in my life, when I was doing some translation work for one of the subreddit, by posting original content alongside the translation. Felt weird, that is actually a real thing.
Meanwhile in gay language……..
So uh these are (or were ten+ years ago, i haven’t been on the apps since then) used to mean bottom and top on gay dating apps. It took me an embarrassingly long time to work out what they meant, I thought there was some extra meaning along the lines of bumpy, abrasive, etc.
to add on to your misery I just wanted to let you know that the kanji 凸 was even used as a kira kira name for a dude, with the reading being >!テトリス (Tetorisu/Tetris)!<
no I am not shitting you this is *real*
edit: formatting + grammar 😛
I have a personal feud with 正. It’s just… a bunch of lines in different places. Like, who are you trying to impress?
You think that’s bad, I’ve been using Japanese daily for almost 30 years and I just found out about 〆 this week.
How do i read them?
How about this one 曱甴? It’s pretty strange.
One of the first kanji I knew about since I did RTK. Lol
Am I the only one who loves these? Like they are so perfect in their meaning and they embody what makes Kanji so cool in the first place
Shoutout to all my 凹 lovers
It’s amusing to see people’s reaction’s to these kanji as a native Chinese speaker haha, it never really registered in my mind, just felt that it was normal
Wait til you see people using 凸 and 凹 on 9monsters and other gay dating apps.
Concave. Convex. This is why I loved learning Japanese kanji so much. Seeing the pictures and going, “Oh yeah, I see it now.”.