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Offtopic but beautiful: komorebi is my favorite word in the category of "complex things in my language, for which other languages have a succint word", and in j
by j1elo 4y ago
Offtopic but beautiful: komorebi is my favorite word in the category of "complex things in my language, for which other languages have a succint word", and in japanese it means the beams formed by light and shadows when sunlight shines through tree leaves
- bsnnkv 4y agoMy wife chose the name for the project, she is such a beautiful soul.
- idiocrat 4y agoHere are more details: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%BC%8F%E3%82%8C%E6%97%A5 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%BC%8F%E3%82%8C%E...
- sedatk 4y agoWe call them godrays.
- rochak 4y agoJust looked up the meaning of the word. It is absolutely exquisite!
- becquerel 4y agoThat's a very poetic translation, compared to jisho.org's 'sunlight filtering through trees '. It is also worth noting that it's a compound, not a single morpheme that represents the entire thought. (木漏れ日 - 木 is tree, 漏れ is 'filtering', 日 is sun/light)