Japan Just Made a New Word for Hot Official. It Starts at Forty Degrees.
To say a brutally hot day, forty degrees and up in Japanese, say 酷暑日 (kokushobi).
Your app says thirty five and locals shrug. It says forty and Japan pulls out a different word.
酷暑日
kokushobi
a brutally hot day, forty degrees and up
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- 明日は酷暑日です。 ashita wa kokushobi desu. Tomorrow is a brutally hot day.
- 酷暑日は無理をしないでください。 kokushobi wa muri o shinaide kudasai. On a forty degree day, don't push yourself.
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