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| Re: Does =?UTF-8?Q?=E9=87=8E=E5=88=86?= |
| 12 Sep 24 18:12:12 |
From: mwgamera@gmail.invalid On 2024-09-12, HenHanna wrote: > Does 野分 in Chinese mean 颱風 (台風, Typhoon) ? > > in Japanese, 野分 , 野分, のわ (or Nowake) means that. I suspect the context is the title of one of the parts of Genji Monogatari where it was translated as ‘the typhoon’ into English. On the surface the word looks like a Japanese coining; like a literal ‘filed-splitting [wind]’. And the etymology given by Digital Daijisen is: >《野の を風が強く吹 分ける意》 Why should it mean anything in Chinese? Perhaps it might appear for the same reason Google Translate went with “nowaki” in English, ie. as an untranslated foreign term. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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