An endless barrel of exposition

博学多才
haku.gaku.ta.sai

Literally: acclaimed – study – many – talent

Alternately: Possessing an extensive store of knowledge and a range of skills. Talented and educated. A “Renaissance man.”

Notes: This is another compound formed by simply joining two two-character words together. Common variants may use (shiki), “knowledge,” in place of either or .

hakugakuhanekawa

“It’s not that I know everything, it’s just that I know that.”

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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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