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"Premonition of love". Oh, there, I translated it. It's not untranslatable. It's just not a popular culture thing anywhere except Japan. Sure, it's different from "love at first sight" because you feel you will love them, not that you already do. Personally, sounds a lot like "lust" or just "interest" to me.
I think there are some characteristics that will induce koi no yokan: - jishin ((quiet?) confidence) - ii kanji (feeling of good) - yasashii kanji (feeling of gentleness -- maybe something like "has empathy") - atama ga ii (smart). This is only popular in certain circles and is more typically valued by women in men than the other way) -- most Japanese men seem. It to want their wives to be smarter than they are (alth…
Jishin–(self-assured-ness) ii kanji–(feels right) yasashii kanji–(nice to someone) atama ga ii–(smart)
恋の予感
恋 is love
予, from 予約 meaning reservation/plan
感, from 感じ meaning feeling.
"Premonition of love". Oh, there, I translated it. It's not untranslatable. It's just not a popular culture thing anywhere except Japan. Sure, it's different from "love at first sight" because you feel you will love them, not that you already do. Personally, sounds a lot like "lust" or just "interest" to me.
Everything is translatable. It can take a sentence, a paragraph or an essay. What the term usually means is: it is not translatable as a single word. And in this case, it isn't.
"Premonition of love". Oh, there, I translated it. It's not untranslatable. It's just not a popular culture thing anywhere except Japan. Sure, it's different from "love at first sight" because you feel you will love them, not that you already do. Personally, sounds a lot like "lust" or just "interest" to me.
I had never heard this term until I read this article, but have often thought of a very similar feeling in the past. Maybe it's the same? The problem is, what I'm thinking of with myself is something that I was not consciously aware of at the time, but that definitely occurred. So I can't relate to the idea of "I will probably fall in love with this person." Rather, it's there's this reaction I have, that's probably…
It certainly wasn't fate for any of them, as I didn't date a single one, and I'm quite happy with the woman that I did marry.
I think there are some characteristics that will induce koi no yokan: - jishin ((quiet?) confidence) - ii kanji (feeling of good) - yasashii kanji (feeling of gentleness -- maybe something like "has empathy") - atama ga ii (smart). This is only popular in certain circles and is more typically valued by women in men than the other way) -- most Japanese men seem. It to want their wives to be smarter than they are (alth…
There are words that better express the nuances of the Japanese terms: Jishin–(self-assured-ness) ii kanji–(feels right) yasashii kanji–(nice to someone) atama ga ii–(smart)
Jishin also has a range of interpretations that may not be identical for those in non-Japanese contexts.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything is translatable. It can take a sentence, a paragraph or an essay. What the term usually means is: it is not translatable as a single word. And in this case, it isn't.
The original was a phrase, and my translation is a phrase that's the same number of words.
Sounds pretty superfluous to me. Somewhere between like, having a crush and love, I don't quite see a place for "premonition of love." Given no other culture has it (as far as mentioned), I'm tempted to believe it's a cultural quirk or a tradition, rather than a universal phenomena.
I lived in Japan for about 8 years and I have studied and worked with its culture for many years longer. I think you're comment is overly dismissive. First, other cultures probably do have it, but it's just not named as a phenomenon. I personally don't believe the nihonjinron theory. That said, the language and culture is very linguistically and sociologically distant from the west, so some terms don't translate natu…