The Calendar
Every word, every day
One word is opened each day at midnight in Japan. Pick any day that has arrived to read how its word is built and where it came from, or filter the calendar to light up the days whose words share a level, layer, process or part of speech.
A word sits on the day it was first opened. Once every word has had its day, they come round again: those days are marked and open the word's original day.
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1 雛祭ひなまつり2 非難ひなん3 避難ひなん4 罅ひび5 悲鳴ひめい6 冷やかすひやかす7 日焼けひやけ8 標語ひょうご9 描写びょうしゃ10 びらびら11 平たいひらたい12 びりびり13 後あと14 一日いちにち15 上うえ16 一昨日おととい17 九きゅう18
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- 和語 Native Japanese
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- 外来語 Loanword
- 混種語 Hybrid
- A repeat: the word was first opened on another day