This week for my SoraNews24 W.T.F. Japan article, I wrote about the top five kanji with ironic meanings.
In English, words can be broken down into smaller parts. For example, “biology” is “bio” (meaning “life”) plus “ology” (meaning “the study of”). The same thing goes for Japanese too, and sometimes you can even break down the kanji themselves to figure out how their parts come together to give their meaning.
Except sometimes, when you look at the individual parts of a kanji under a microscope, they don’t really come together in the way you’d expect. In fact, they might even end up giving you the complete opposite meaning that the kanji actually has!
Who are the worst of these “ironic kanji” offenders? Only one way to find out!
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