XPost: soc.culture.china, alt.usage.english, alt.chinese
From: HenHanna@devnull.tb

On 9/12/2024 11:12 AM, mwgamera wrote:
> On 2024-09-12, HenHanna wrote:
>>       Does 野分 in Chinese mean  颱風 (�風, Typhoon) ?
>>
>> in Japanese,   野分ã�
, 野分, ã�®ã‚�ã�
  (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
> ‘field-splitting [wind]’. And the etymology given by Digital Daijisen is:
>> 《野ã�®è
‰ã‚’風ã�Œå¼·ã��å�¹ã�
分�る�》
>
> 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.
>


野分 · late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside;  typhoon, esp. one
that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year

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