Here are 6-8 more wonderful Japanese terms. For this post, I’m focusing on homonyms. All these words sound exactly the same, or at least exactly the same to my gaijin ears, but with very different meanings. Sometimes head-scratching. Sometimes balls-scratching. Enjoy!

1) うみ (umi) means both “sea” (海) and “pus” (膿).

It’s of course not uncommon for a Japanese person to say, “I love the sea.” But is that