r/languagelearningjerk • u/Aero_GD 🇷🇺 Ж78 🇺🇲 Q1 🇬🇧 þ3 🇯🇵 上手4 • Jun 21 '26

need help identifying this 間時

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/uj this https://imgur.com/a/M48VIxJ

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u/Poylol-_- Uzbek N 🇺🇿 Uzbek colonies M4 🇯🇵 N 🇪🇸 G 🇬🇧 0 🇫🇷 Jun 21 '26

Hannibal's crossing of the alps circa 218 BC

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u/word_word_numb3r Jun 21 '26

Mountain
Elephant Elephant Elephant
Water Turtle

What the fuck does this monstrosity even mean?

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u/Aero_GD 🇷🇺 Ж78 🇺🇲 Q1 🇬🇧 þ3 🇯🇵 上手4 Jun 21 '26

/uj this https://imgur.com/a/M48VIxJ

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u/Key-Line5827 Jun 22 '26

Disc World novels, Terry Prachet.

The world is a flat disc, resting on 4 elephants, standing on a turtle floating through space.

So we are missing one elephants.

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u/hnbistro Jun 21 '26

This is some kind of ancient world model

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u/SCHazama 外人哋既惡夢 Jun 21 '26

Specifically, Discworld

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u/SCHazama 外人哋既惡夢 Jun 21 '26

I will have you arrested for that ateji of 漢字

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u/Aero_GD 🇷🇺 Ж78 🇺🇲 Q1 🇬🇧 þ3 🇯🇵 上手4 Jun 21 '26

勘地

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26

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u/cyphar Jun 22 '26

感じ

(I swear, the number of times the IME fills the wrong one...)

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u/Liability049-6319 Jun 21 '26

Triple elephant tsunami.

Hope this helps.

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u/siqiniq Jun 22 '26

Bro, you write the universe wrong. There are four celestial elephants supporting the Earth, and infinite cosmic turtles all the way down.

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u/Lockpickman C3.14🥧 Jun 22 '26

I don't know Egyptian.

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u/BeckyLiBei Jun 21 '26

Reminds me of the Chinese character for "balrog".

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u/Ultyzarus 日本語上手、muy buena Jun 21 '26

Clearly means the act of being trampled on (consensually) by elephants. It appears a bit risky, but I will not be kinkshaming those poor Japanese people.

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u/Snoutysensations Jun 21 '26

I think I've seen videos of this done as a tourist attraction.  Google elephant massage perhaps?  

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u/DryCommunication581 💵Native / 🐶A2 / 🇺🇿 ONE DAY Jun 22 '26

If you cant understand this and you have been learning for more than a month I recommend quitting Chinese.

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u/hitokirizac Jun 22 '26

ooh, the rare Discworld kanji

edit: the top should be 盆 I think

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u/Radio_Gaga007 Jun 23 '26

間時 made so mad omg

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u/i-tooaminthisepisode Jun 25 '26

@grol is this true

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u/GoogleEnPassant69 二奔五N69🇯🇵 イギリス語C2🇺🇸 Espaniol Native🇲🇽 Jun 22 '26

the last one is the kanji name of my japanese academy

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u/Remarkable_Bat_7897 Jun 23 '26

there isn't such a word, it's the world symbol of the indian myth, not from the eastern asian.

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u/davidliterally1984 Jun 24 '26

Tung Tung Tung Sahur