Let's play Kanji Shiritori! 漢字尻取をしましょう

親子丼おやこどん Oyakodon (Japanese dish)

It’s chicken and egg together. That’s why it’s parent and child. It can also be salmon with salmon eggs.

Edit: Googled it now because I became uncertain, apparently the salmon variant is called 鮭親子丼 (so the same pun still applies), and salmon eggs are called roe.

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丼飯(どんぶりめし) - rice in a don!

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いがい - Rice spoon.

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匙量(ひりょう) - spoon amount (when measuring amount of medicine)

Confession: I looked it up. There are 5 words starting with 匙 in the dictionary. Am I supposed to know any of them?? (Or even the word 匙 itself)

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りょうけい (Judge’s verdict, judge’s sentence)

Yeah I had no idea either :sweat_smile:
Again, lucky you looked it up for us @NpPenguin

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刑事(けいじ)Detective

刑 is an easy kanji at least. Learned 刑事 playing ジャッジアイズ. 刑事 is more a detective within the police force, while a private detective (like the main character 八神) is 探偵(たんてい)

@NpPenguin Maybe try not using a dictionary too much at least, right? I don’t personally use it and just let someone else answer if I don’t know (like the kanji you answered for).
Kind of takes the fun out of it if you just let a dictionary play the game for you, no?

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事故 accident, incident

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故郷(ふるさと) - hometown

@FubuMiOkaKoro You’re definitely right. I was just too curious to wait another few days for the answer so that was the only time I used a dictionary. Will see what others answer next time

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郷里 (きょうり) - hometown or birth place

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さと - village

里親 (さとおや) - foster parent

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親切しんせつ kind, gentle

機能きのう

image

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能力(のうりょく) - ability

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力士 (りきし) - sumo wrestler

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士官しかん - Officer 🪖

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·官僚·かんりょう - bureaucrat image

I think this one might be a game ender :sweat_smile: I won’t play them obviously but I was stumped and got curious so I looked up words starting with 僚 of which there are only 4, 3 of which are pretty obscure (as in I have no clue what they even mean in english) with the most commonly used one having a frequency of top 66,500 :grimacing:

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ごめんね!

ヒントだよね!

One of the existing possibilities can be considered a natural extension of the basic meaning of the kanji , mostly for English native speakers…

If there is no answer by tomorrow, I could change my entry to another word starting with so as not to forfeit this game.

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Am wondering, is 官僚主義 allowed according the rules? It did say multiple kanji overlaps are allowed but what if I just add something to the end?

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