{"id":30,"date":"2006-04-08T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T19:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/08\/word-of-the-day-%e8%87%aa%e5%8b%95%e8%b2%a9%e5%a3%b2%e6%a9%9f-japanese\/"},"modified":"2006-04-08T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-08T19:19:38","slug":"jidouhanbaiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u81ea\u52d5\u8ca9\u58f2\u6a5f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"165\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin-left: 15px\" id=\"image32\" alt=\"jidohanbaiki - Japanese vending machines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/jidohanbaiki.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u81ea\u52d5\u8ca9\u58f2\u6a5f (jid\u014dhanbaiki),<br \/>\nnoun = vending machine<\/p>\n<p>Breaking this word down into its compontent parts we get:<br \/>\n\u81ea\u52d5 (jid\u014d) automatic (self move);<br \/>\n\u8ca9\u58f2 (hanbai) selling;<br \/>\n\u6a5f (ki) machine.<\/p>\n<p>This word can also be shortened to \u81ea\u8ca9\u6a5f (jihanki), which demostrates a typical method of abbreviating words in Japanese: you get rid of the second character in each pair.<\/p>\n<p>Vending machines are ubiquitous in Japan &#8211; everywhere you look you&#8217;ll see one, or a whole bank of them, even on top of mountains! They sell an incredible variety of things, including hot and cold food, drinks (tea, coffee, beer, whiskey, etc), flowers, clothes, cigarettes, rice, eggs, jewellery, videos and comic books. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vending_machine\">Wikipedia<\/a>, there&#8217;s one vending machine for every 23 people in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words<\/strong><br \/>\n\u81ea\u52d5\u30c9\u30a2 (jid\u014ddoa) = automatic door<br \/>\n\u81ea\u52d5\u8eca  (jid\u014dsha) = car &#8211; in Chinese a car is \u6c7d\u8eca (q\u00ecch\u0113) lit. &#8220;spirit cart&#8221;<br \/>\n\u81ea\u52d5\u64cd\u7e26\u88c5\u7f6e (jid\u014ds\u014dj\u016bs\u014dchi) = autopilot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u81ea\u52d5\u8ca9\u58f2\u6a5f (jid\u014dhanbaiki), noun = vending machine Breaking this word down into its compontent parts we get: \u81ea\u52d5 (jid\u014d) automatic (self move); \u8ca9\u58f2 (hanbai) selling; \u6a5f (ki) machine. This word can also be shortened to \u81ea\u8ca9\u6a5f (jihanki), which demostrates a typical method of abbreviating words in Japanese: you get rid of the second character in each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}