Three weeks until the semester ends. How are you doing?

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Confanity

余裕綽々
yo.yuu.shaku.shaku

Literally: surplus/extra – abundant – lenient/loose – [doubling mark]

Alternately: Calm; unhurried; unphased.

Notes: The symbol 々 is not in and of itself a kanji. Rather, it indicates that the previous kanji is used a second time – an especially valuable shortcut back when everything was written out by hand or carved into a wood block for printing. Naturally, writing 綽綽 is perfectly acceptable.

About Confanity

I love the written word more than anything else I've had the chance to work with. I'm back in the States from Japan for grad school, but still studying Japanese with the hope of becoming a translator -- or writer, or even teacher -- as long as it's something language-related.
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