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Originally Posted by pacerier
heys all, i've got 2 questions on vocab.
1. what may i use 奇跡 to describe?
and what's the difference between a じしょ and a じびき
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You are one interesting individual. You ask elementary particle questions one day and above-intermediate questions the next.
Now, the easier question first (for me, at least).
The differences between じしょ and a じびき:
1. Former being in more frequent use than latter. It's often, if not always, older people who actively use じびき.
2. Latter is the only word you can use to say "a walking dictionary". 生き字引.
3. Former is the only word you can use to say "an electronic dictionary". 電子辞書. This may explain why younger people aren't using the word 字引 very often these days.
Next, 奇跡. (If you write that word in kanji and want to know how it's used, you should have been writing the
much easier words that you have been writing in kana here the same way. This confuses the guys that answer your questions because it looks to me as though you didn't know where you were in term of your current Japanese proficiency.)
You use 奇跡 to describe an event or phenomenon that no one could have predicted would occur. People being rescued after spending several days under the rubble from an earthquake. A baseball player hitting five homeruns in a game. A man recovering consciousness after several weeks in a coma. All these phenomena can be called 奇跡.