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身土不二
身土不二
Reading
Kana:
しんどふじ
Romaji:
shindofuji
Kana
Romaji
Definition
noun
1
you are what you eat; slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health; indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land)
Kanji
身
Readings:
シン、 み
Meanings:
somebody, person, one's station in life
土
Readings:
ド、 ト、 つち
Meanings:
soil, earth, ground, Turkey
不
Readings:
フ、 ブ
Meanings:
negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsy
二
Readings:
ニ、 ジ、 ふた、 ふた.つ、 ふたたび
Meanings:
two, two radical (no.2)