akachan
Wednesday 27th June
While learning my Japanese, I’m putting all the sentences from my course book into Mnemosyne and learning the meanings as I go along. Looking up is required, because the book is a native Japanese one, so has no English translations, so I use a combination of my Kanji dictionaries, google translate, and if something looks like a simple noun, I use google image search (there is danger involved there, as an Iranian colleague found out when he image-searched to find out what a ‘twat’ was and why he was being called one).
Anyway… I searched for akachan (or 赤ちゃん for those with Japanese characters turned on), and found…
A BABY IN A BUCKET! (or is it a tub?)
So that’s CLEARLY what akachan means. That should only require a small amount of work to get to yagino akachan meaning baby goat in a bucket.
A basin, I think.
JG
27 Jun 07 at 9:35 pm
That is never a basin.
ba·sin (bā’sĭn)
n.
1. An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.
stu
27 Jun 07 at 11:05 pm
pail
boo
28 Jun 07 at 12:27 am
A bucket or pail “usually” has a handle so you can carry something in it. A tub doesn’t usually have a handle. Looks like a baby in a tub.
Actually it looks like the fabric softener thingy in the center of the wash machine, but I’ve never found a baby in mine!
Debster
28 Jun 07 at 2:15 am
Mixing bowl.
Rich
28 Jun 07 at 6:36 am
How about a bowl?
Mr H
28 Jun 07 at 7:37 am
I keep thinking it is only a part image of a blender.
Now where is the lid?
Rollasoc
28 Jun 07 at 7:53 am
of course its a blender…. Olive Oil comes from Olives so baby oil comes from……
Mr H
28 Jun 07 at 9:24 am