New Japanese Words

Do you know Japanese words such as "Oto-men" , "Gachi" , and "Shakao" ? These are some of the words that Junior High and High school students in Japan wants to be written in the Japanese-Japanese dictionary.

According to the article, Taishu-kan Shoten, Which is the publisher of Meikyo Kokugo Jiten did a research to the students in Japan. They did this on tuesday, December 9.

These are the top 10 words they have chosen.

"oto-men"（乙男）

"gachi" （ガチ）

"shakao"（シャカ男）

"tahiru"(タヒる)

"chenso"（チェンソー）

"hime"（姫）

"monpe"（モンペ）

"yasuru"（ヤスる）

"yubikoi"（指恋）

"Roudo"（老働）

For more information, please visit this website -written in Japanese-

http://www.taishukan.co.jp/meikyo_campaign3/happyo/can3_taisho.html

Also, last year's one are at here,

http://www.taishukan.co.jp/meikyo_campaign2/happyo/can2_taisyo.html

and these are the words they selected at the first research.

http://www.taishukan.co.jp/meikyo_campaign/happyo/index.html