Japan Appreciation Thread

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If you visit Japan and see tendon on the menu, don’t worry; it’s not “connective tissue” that’s being served! Tendon (天丼) is actually a shortened name for a dish called tempura donburi or tempura rice bowl.
 
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i wonder if "tempura" has its own kanji despite being a loanword (which you'd think would be written in katakana) because it's a relatively old loanword (maybe katakana wasn't as widely-used at the time -- although katakana was invented in the 9th century, whereas tempura was coined in the 16th century, which is quite a significant difference).

Ateji - Wikipedia

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Ateji as a means of representing loanwords has been largely superseded in modern Japanese by the use of katakana although many ateji coined in earlier eras still linger on.
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not sure what counts as an "earlier era"



(sorry that this thread has turned into my personal autism chamber)
 


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