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This weeks' kanji choice was inspired by me watching some NFL games on a Sunday. I saw a big Kanji on this defensive linemen that said "kyocho". And I thought to myself, what he meant by that. The word means "harmony". Was he a pacificist wanting peace? No that didn't make sense. So I looked up the dictionary to see what other defintion there is. Harmony was definitely one, and the other one was "cooperation" or "to cooperate with". Again it's not really clear what he meant by having a such big Kanji on his huge biceps. Then I realized that he was part of a defens line unit, so he probably wanted to emphasize "harmony in team work". If I tried to translate that into a Japanese word, this would be a rather hard task. Especially because Japanese people actually use the same English word "teamwork" in the Katakana form, no Kanji will be needed. And as mentioned earlier in my other article, using Katakana as your tatto choice is probably not the best approach.
So we come back to this word "kyocho" which probably is the closest thing to "harmony in team work". The first character "kyo" means to "cooperate or combine". And second character "cho" actually means to "search for". Don't know how these guys find these Kanji characters but I am certainly always enteretained by it. Next time you watch a NFL game, you might be able to recognize this one.
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