神風かみかぜ

See also: 神かみ风

Chinese

		God; unusual; mysterious God; unusual; mysterious; soul; spirit; divine essence; lively; spiritual being	wind; news; style wind; news; style; custom; manner
trad. (神風かみかぜ)		神かみ	風ふう
simp. (神かみ风)		神かみ	风
anagram		風神ふうじん／风神

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 神風かみかぜ (kamikaze).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shénfēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˊ ㄈㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san⁴ fung¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sîn-hong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shénfēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˊ ㄈㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shénfong
    • Wade–Giles: shên²-fêng¹
    • Yale: shén-fēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shernfeng
    • Palladius: шэньфэн (šɛnʹfɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən³⁵ fɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: san⁴ fung¹
    • Yale: sàhn fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san⁴ fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen⁴ fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn²¹ fʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sîn-hong
    • Tâi-lô: sîn-hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sinhofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin¹³⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin²⁴⁻¹¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²³⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

Noun

神風かみかぜ

1. kamikaze

Verb

神風かみかぜ

1. to kamikaze

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
神かみ	風ふう
かみ Grade: 3	かぜ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
神風かみかぜ (kyūjitai)

/kamukaze/ → /kamikaze/

Shift from Old Japanese kamukaze (see below).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かみかぜ [kàmíꜜkàzè] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠mʲika̠ze̞]

Noun

神かみ(かみ)風ふう(かぜ) • (kamikaze) 

1. a divine wind
2. a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two
3. (figurative) a reckless and dangerous action
4. the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see Mongol invasions of Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Usage notes

This kamikaze spelling is also the ultimate source of English kamikaze, but by a circuitous route. The characters appear in 神かみ(しん)風ふう(ぷう)特とく(とく)別べつ(べつ)攻おさむ(こう)撃げき(げき)隊たい(たい) (shinpū tokubetsu kōgeki tai, “shinpū special attack unit”), the name of airborne kamikaze units surely named after the typhoon but using the on'yomi or Sino-Japanese reading shinpū (see below). The kamikaze reading was used informally in the Japanese media at the time, and this made its way into English. For more, see Kamikaze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

The Japanese term for referring to the WWII suicide pilots is the abbreviated form 特とく(とっ)攻おさむ(こう)隊たい(たい) (tokkōtai).

Derived terms

• 神かみ(かみ)風ふう(かぜ)タクシー (kamikaze takushī): a kamikaze taxi, a taxi driven recklessly fast
• 神かみ(かみ)風ふう(かぜ)の (kamikaze no): an epithet alluding to Ise
• 神かみ(かみ)風ふう(かぜ)や (kamikaze ya): an epithet alluding to Ise

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
神かみ	風ふう
かむ Grade: 3	かぜ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
神風かみかぜ (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Compound of 神かみ (kamu, “god, deity”, the ancient combining form of modern kami) +‎ 風ふう (kaze, “wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠mɯ̟ka̠ze̞]

Noun

神かみ(かむ)風ふう(かぜ) • (kamukaze) 

1. (archaic) a divine wind
2. (archaic) the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see Mongol invasions of Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• 神かみ(かむ)風ふう(かぜ)の (kamukaze no): an epithet alluding to Ise
• 神かみ(かむ)風ふう(かぜ)や (kamukaze ya): an epithet alluding to Ise

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
神かみ	風ふう
かん Grade: 3	かぜ Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
神風かみかぜ (kyūjitai)

/kamukaze/ → /kankaze/

From Old Japanese. Shift from earlier kamukaze (see above).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kã̠ŋka̠ze̞]

Noun

神かみ(かん)風ふう(かぜ) • (kankaze) 

1. (archaic) a divine wind
2. (archaic) the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see Mongol invasions of Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
神かみ	風ふう
しん Grade: 3	ふう > ぷう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
神風かみかぜ (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 神風かみかぜ (MC zyin pjuwng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しんぷう [shìńpúú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕĩmpɯ̟ː]

Noun

神かみ(しん)風ふう(ぷう) • (shinpū) 

1. a divine wind

Derived terms

• 神かみ(しん)風ふう(ぷう)連れん(れん) (Shinpūren): the Shinpūren or “Divine Wind League”, an association of ex-samurai committed to the violent undoing of the Meiji Restoration: see Shinpūren rebellion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 神かみ(しん)風ふう(ぷう)特とく(とく)別べつ(べつ)攻おさむ(こう)撃げき(げき)隊たい(たい) (shinpū tokubetsu kōgeki tai): “Divine Wind” special attack unit (airborne kamikaze unit)

See also

• 特とく(とっ)攻おさむ(こう)隊たい(たい) (tokkōtai)

Further reading

• Discussion of this term on Languagehat, a language blog

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
神かみ	風ふう

Noun

神風かみかぜ

1. chữ Hán form of thần phong (“kamikaze”).