sibakuAnother #Japanese post: https://sibaku.github.io/site/pages/languages/japanese/palindromes_semordnilaps/ I guess as a comp scientist, I am predisposed to palindromes, as that is one of the earliest programming exercises lol One of the 3 longest ones in Japanese is 男の中の男 (alpha male lol) Length 2 has all the fun doubles, like 次次, 悠悠, 年年, ...
Semordnilaps are words that you can read backwards and they become a new word, like dog/god, 期間中/中間期. What got me thinking about this first was learning how 中心 and 心中 have VERY different meanings. I'm also amazed how often I read 心中...The only length 4 semordnilap: 歳歳年年/年年歳歳, nearly all are length 2