{"id":22675,"date":"2023-01-19T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22675"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:16:07","slug":"kenchiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22675","title":{"rendered":"Kenchiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese word I learnt recently is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/kenchiku.mp3\">\u5efa\u7bc9<\/a> (kenchiku), which means architecture or construction and just appeals to my ears.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ume-y\/28482456974\/in\/photolist-KoU39o-4f2mha-deekHn-4hCyUF-4eEXea-4eJVYj-4eJUU1-4eJ5FN-4eJ4vy-4eE7vr-4f2p76-4eJVWq-4eT4GG-4fsoC4-4eJ46U-4eJ6aQ-eh1ykW-R8tg8u-RmJJ7z-R8tdz3-R8te2W-RmJJpZ-4fsopZ-RmJGjr-4eE6cP-Go8bsf-4f6mLE-21KTVvo-4eSrAL-2k97ZKA-2k97ZJD-Go5Dt5-4eE6kt-RmJH3R-4hEvfa-KoU3mC-239zn1P-iVKwE-77oEyG-CrZVhG-FBDhCp-FHuQJK-Le19xx-apU7SB-FBDcDB-9Hw3At-iVKwC-XAyiep-9Vj843-2ncHGn1\" title=\"\u65e7\u6e08\u751f\u9928\u672c\u9928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8340\/28482456974_ed6eded6cd_z.jpg\" alt=\"\u65e7\u6e08\u751f\u9928\u672c\u9928\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u5efa\u7bc9\u5bb6 (kenchikuka) = architect<\/li>\n<li>\u5efa\u7bc9\u5b66 (kenchikugaku) = architecture<\/li>\n<li>\u5efa\u7bc9\u7269 (kenchikubutsu) = building, structure<\/li>\n<li>\u5efa\u7bc9\u4e2d (kenchikuch\u016b) = building, structure<\/li>\n<li>\u5efa\u7bc9\u696d (kenchikugy\u014d) = building\/construction industry<\/li>\n<li>\u5efa\u7bc9\u696d\u8005 (kenchikugy\u014dsha) = builder, constructor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The charcter <strong>\u5efa<\/strong> means to build, and also appears in such words as <strong>\u5efa\u7269<\/strong> (tatemono &#8211; building), <strong>\u5efa\u8a2d<\/strong> (kensetsu &#8211; construction, establishment), and <strong>\u5efa\u3066\u308b<\/strong> (tateru &#8211; to build).<\/p>\n<p>The charcter <strong>\u7bc9<\/strong> means to fabricate, build or construct, and also appears in such words as <strong>\u7bc9\u304f<\/strong> (kizuku &#8211; to build, construct, erect, amass), <strong>\u7bc9\u5c71<\/strong> (tsukiyama &#8211; artificial hill), and <strong>\u7bc9\u5f8c<\/strong> (chikut\u0113 &#8211; landscape gardening).<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/%E5%BB%BA%E7%AF%89\">jisho.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the past week or so there has been some building work going on in my house, so it\u2019s been a bit chaotic. The central heating system has now been replaced and I finally have a warm house, which is very nice. It\u2019s all running on electricity (before I had a gas boiler) and is powered partly by my solar panels. Next I\u2019m having a small bathroom installed downstairs, and the kitchen roof needs replacing.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any words you&#8217;ve come across recently that appeal to your ears?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese word I learnt recently is \u5efa\u7bc9 (kenchiku), which means architecture or construction and just appeals to my ears. Related words include: \u5efa\u7bc9\u5bb6 (kenchikuka) = architect \u5efa\u7bc9\u5b66 (kenchikugaku) = architecture \u5efa\u7bc9\u7269 (kenchikubutsu) = building, structure \u5efa\u7bc9\u4e2d (kenchikuch\u016b) = building, structure \u5efa\u7bc9\u696d (kenchikugy\u014d) = building\/construction industry \u5efa\u7bc9\u696d\u8005 (kenchikugy\u014dsha) = builder, constructor The charcter \u5efa means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22675","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\/22675","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=22675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22677,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22675\/revisions\/22677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}