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To non-kana readers, "shianoakurireeto tsugi", more literally cyanoacrylate "patch". 継 is used in ideas like inheritance, succession, relief (pitcher), and rel

• Zababa 5y ago
  To expand a bit on that for the curious, kintsugi is written as 金継ぎ. 金 is "gold" (the "kin" in kintsugi), so I replaced the "gold" part with the "cyanoacrylate" part, and glued it to the 継ぎ ending. Katakana (the symbols used for シアノアクリレート) is often used for foreign words. 金 and 継 are kanjis, characters that comes from China. They usually have different pronunciations depending on if they are alone or part of a word. ぎ is an hiragana, the hiragana for "gi". Hiragana and katakana are syllabaries that are mostly equivalent. ぎ in katakana would be ギ, and シアノアクリレート in hiragana would be しあのあくりれっと.
  • pezezin 5y ago
    To expand on your comment, the ぎ after 継 is an okurigana, a suffix used to specify the pronunciation of the preceding kanji. Anyway, your comment really made me laugh, so please take your upvote :D