{"id":21496,"date":"2021-10-05T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21496"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:38:55","slug":"astringent-hesitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21496","title":{"rendered":"Astringent Hesitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese lesson that I studied on Duolingo today included names of parts of Tokyo. One of these was \u6e0b\u8c37 (Shibuya), which, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shibuya\">Wikipedia<\/a>, is a major commercial and finance centre, and houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shibuya (\u6e0b\u8c37\u99c5) and Shinjuku (\u65b0\u5bbf\u99c5).<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sigwyg20\/1023296621\/in\/photolist-2yqErc-DDD7y4-EyKRRv-2mvhR8V-2afw9qm-2iT7i66-dJcys9-dJcy7b-2ecv1c5-8enCGf-8ejnwp-8enDgf-2knMR6m-8enCS5-8ejnXB-N26L63-6XEbit-2k3UXLt-2jnmdL5-2jDxA89-6XEb4i-2kkxSHd-bJ1inX-6XE9RF-6XJ9Nj-6XJaLs-6XJ9fA-6XJa6w-6XEaCz-6XJ9vd-2h9BwaB-fC6qkT-2ji7Vkh-2kAYmne-2jQ5r8J-2iEEoA9-2m3dwVg-f13tAi-2jQVK75-2kadmVW-2jkqrcv-6XJbnW-2msAJSa-2hbEuEV-6XJaWU-2h8L3E4-4K7LGh-2hak9cy-2hSLrir-2hWN2nc\" title=\"\u6e0b\u8c37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1147\/1023296621_768bf8c310_z.jpg\" alt=\"\u6e0b\u8c37\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first character in Shibuya (\u6e0b) is rare, and I haven\u2019t seen it anywhere else. On it\u2019s own it means the \u201castringent taste of unripe persimmon fruit\u201d and is a simplified form of \u6f81 (j\u016b\/shibu), which is mainly used in personal names [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%E6%B8%8B#Japanese\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The second character in Shibuya (\u8c37) means valley, lowland or plain. It\u2019s pronounced tani, kiwa, koku or ya.<\/p>\n<p>\u6e0b is pronounced sh\u016b, s\u014d, j\u016b or shibu. It appears in words such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u6e0b\u6ede (sh\u016btai) = (traffic) congestion, delay, stagnation<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u3044 (shibui) = astringent, bitter, rough, harsh, tart; austere, elegant; glum, sullen, sulky; stingy, tight-fisted<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u308b (shiburu) = to hesitate, hold back, falter; be reluctant, be unwilling; begrudge<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u9762 (sh\u016bmen) = grimace, sullen face (\ud83d\ude12)<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u3005 (shibushibu) = reluctantly, unwillingly<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u3044\u9854\u3092\u3059\u308b (shibui kao o suru) = to frown, be grim-faced, look sullen<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u8272 (shibuiro) = tan (colour)<\/li>\n<li>\u6e0b\u3061\u3093 (shibu chan) = stingy person, miser, scrooge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The character \u6f81 (s\u00e8) exists in Chinese, and is an old variant of \u6f80 [\u6da9] (s\u00e8), which means astringent, tart, puckery,acerbity, unsmooth, rough, hard to understand, obscure. This is quite appropriate as it\u2019s quite an obscure character.<\/p>\n<p>Now trying saying \u8fd9\u67ff\u5b50\u6da9 (zh\u00e8 sh\u00eczi s\u00e8) many times as quickly as you can. It means the persimmon tasts puckery, a word I hadn\u2019t come across before that means high in tannins (of wine), causing pucking or tending to pucker.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/%E6%B8%8B\">jisho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdbg.net\/chinese\/dictionary?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=1&amp;wdqb=%E6%BE%81\">MDBG<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dict.naver.com\/linedict\/zhendict\/dict.html#\/cnen\/entry\/4838cd4fcc9e48eda8a9d1d73fa485c0\">LINE Dict Chinese-English<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/puckery\">The Free Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese lesson that I studied on Duolingo today included names of parts of Tokyo. One of these was \u6e0b\u8c37 (Shibuya), which, according to Wikipedia, is a major commercial and finance centre, and houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shibuya (\u6e0b\u8c37\u99c5) and Shinjuku (\u65b0\u5bbf\u99c5). The first character in Shibuya (\u6e0b) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21499,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21496\/revisions\/21499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}