彙
collection
Kanji 1958
collection
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Synopsis
You likely know 単語 (たんご: vocabulary). One can think of 単語 as the equivalent of a single book in the library that 語彙 (ごい: vocabulary; lexicon) represents. The Japanese associate the size of a 語彙 with adulthood (whereas some in the U.S. correlate the size of something very different with manhood!). See how the Japanese use 語彙 and 語彙力 (“word power”) syntactically.
Revision history:
June 6, 2021:
- p. 2: Updated the Henshall etymology and changed the Sears image, as the original one disappeared from his page.
- p. 9: Added a link to the Kanshudo games.
Sept. 15, 2017: Originally published.
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