{"id":22144,"date":"2022-05-04T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22144"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:19:35","slug":"smile-%f0%9f%99%82%f0%9f%98%83%f0%9f%98%84%f0%9f%98%8e%f0%9f%99%83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22144","title":{"rendered":"Smile \ud83d\ude42\ud83d\ude03\ud83d\ude04\ud83d\ude0e\ud83d\ude43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese word I learnt recently that made me smile is <strong>\u5fae\u7b11\u3080<\/strong> (\u307b\u307b\u3048\u3080) [ho.ho.e.m\u026f], which means to smile \ud83d\ude03.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tchdavid\/17524742596\/in\/photolist-sGATqq-21e2nrP-6ZALih-PqNqEo-cv8sWQ-rec88t-6pPL3J-5WnwJj-6A6iqL-bjnJ8g-qtmoNx-28pUoD-HVGgM-4DLTMy-nb9V29-6rbv2A-6yfoz6-6q4pL-6G4wA-5gAq3n-a5tV8D-fM79kZ-a23wpj-6pz4g-7x6vcB-2kHHaUx-2k272G6-2hGSADK-5DQvKy-wfwVZx-72Ten3-gZrCgG-28pRaZ-4xgZr4-28uiQq-58to5f-28ufa9-28pU3T-28ue8h-28uiaE-28pNuH-2NDD2r-28pPiV-28ueU9-28ug53-65VYTB-4hsguh-56Ar4x-2ieTMvF-Kvi5iQ\" title=\"\u5fae\u7b11\u5bf6\u5bf6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5457\/17524742596_0a256a66fd_z.jpg\" alt=\"\u5fae\u7b11\u5bf6\u5bf6\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The character <strong>\u5fae<\/strong> (kasu \/ bi) means delicate, minuteness, insignificance, and <strong>\u7b11<\/strong> (wara \/ e \/ j\u014d) means laugh, laughter, smile or sneer. So <strong>\u5fae\u7b11<\/strong> could be translated literally as a \u201cdelicate laugh\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u5fae\u7b11\u307f (hohoemi), \u5fae\u7b11 (bij\u014d) = smile<\/li>\n<li>\u5fae\u7b11\u307f\u304b\u3051\u308b (hohoemikakeru) = to smile (at someone)<\/li>\n<li>\u5fae\u7b11\u307f\u8fd4\u3059 (hohoemikaesu) = to smile back (at someone), to answer someone\u2019s smile<\/li>\n<li>\u5fae\u7b11\u3092\u6d6e\u304b\u3079\u3066 (bij\u014d o ukabete) = with a smile<\/li>\n<li>\u5fae\u7b11\u307e\u3057\u3044 (hohoemash\u012b) = pleasant, charming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The existence of \u5fae\u7b11\u307f\u8fd4\u3059 suggests to me that answering smiles with smiles is a common thing in Japan. That makes me smile. Are there words in other languages that mean something similar?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u7b11<\/strong> (wara) [\u0270a\u027aa] on it\u2019s own is apparently used as internet slang to mean LOL (laugh out loud) or haha.<\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u7b11\u3046 (warau) = to laugh, smile, sneer, ridicule, be flabbergasted<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u9854 (ekao) = smiling face, smile<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u307f (emi) = smile<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u3044\u58f0 (waraigoe) = (sound of) laughter, laughing voice<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u3044\u3082\u306e, \u7b11\u3044\u7269 (waraimono) = laughingstock, butt of ridicule<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u3044\u8a71 (waraibanashi) = funny story, funny anecdote<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u3044\u51fa\u3059 (waraidasu) = to burst into laughter<\/li>\n<li>\u7b11\u3044\u4e8b (waraigoto) = laughter matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/%E5%BE%AE%E7%AC%91\">jisho.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese word I learnt recently that made me smile is \u5fae\u7b11\u3080 (\u307b\u307b\u3048\u3080) [ho.ho.e.m\u026f], which means to smile \ud83d\ude03. The character \u5fae (kasu \/ bi) means delicate, minuteness, insignificance, and \u7b11 (wara \/ e \/ j\u014d) means laugh, laughter, smile or sneer. So \u5fae\u7b11 could be translated literally as a \u201cdelicate laugh\u201d. Some related words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/22144","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=22144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22145,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144\/revisions\/22145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}