16 Wonderful Japanese Words That Don’t Have English Equivalents

 

Language is all about communication, but sometimes we don't have the right word to describe something we're doing or experiencing, so we have to explain it in more complex terms. The people over at BuzzFeed have put together these cool infographics for 16 Japanese words that have no single equivalent word in English, but that we could really do with a word for! Check them out!

 

japanese-words-yugen
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japanese-words-wasuremono
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japanese-words-nito-onna
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japanese-words-ukiyo
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japanese-words-shirin-yoku
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japanese-words-shibui
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japanese-words-kuidaore
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japanese-words-hikikomori
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japanese-words-majime
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japanese-words-komorebi
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japanese-words-irusu
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japanese-words-age-otori
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japanese-words-ikigai
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japanese-words-yoisho
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japanese-words-bimyou
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japanese-words-tsundoku
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Is there anything that we don't have a word for but you think we should? Let us know in the comment section below.

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