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I learnt an interesting Japanese word and kanji today – \u51e9 (\u3053\u304c\u3089\u3057 \/ kogarashi), which means ‘cold wintry wind’ or ‘the cold wind that reminds us winter is coming’. It is also written \u6728\u67af\u3057 or \u6728\u67af, and is considered ‘untranslatable<\/a>‘ by some.<\/p>\n The character \u51e9 is a \u56fd\u5b57 (\u3053\u304f\u3058 \/ kokuji), that is one that was made in Japan rather than being borrowed from Chinese. It combines \u51e0 (ki – armrest, desk, table, screen), which can also mean ‘to envelope; to wrap around’, with \u6728 (ki \/ moku – tree, shrub, bush, wood).<\/p>\n Other kokuji include:<\/p>\n – \u51e7 (\u3044\u304b\u306e\u307c\u308a; \u305f\u3053 – ikanobori; tako) = kite In Welsh there is a word that is similar to \u51e9: rhewynt<\/strong>, meaning an ‘ice-cold wind’, from rhew<\/em> (frost, ice) and gwynt<\/em> (wind, breath). There are also a number of other interesting wind-related expressions:<\/p>\n – gwynt carthen<\/strong> = breeze created by shaking a blanket (said comtemptuously of a preacher’s artificial eloquence) Sources: http:\/\/www.sljfaq.org\/afaq\/kokuji-list.html<\/a>, Geiriadur yr Academi<\/a>, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Are there equivalents of \u51e9 (kogarashi) in other languages?<\/p>\n Or other interesting wind-related expressions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I learnt an interesting Japanese word and kanji today – \u51e9 (\u3053\u304c\u3089\u3057 \/ kogarashi), which means ‘cold wintry wind’ or ‘the cold wind that reminds us winter is coming’. It is also written \u6728\u67af\u3057 or \u6728\u67af, and is considered ‘untranslatable‘ by some. The character \u51e9 is a \u56fd\u5b57 (\u3053\u304f\u3058 \/ kokuji), that is one that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-japanese","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– \u51ea (\u306a\u304e; \u306a.\u3050 \/ nagi; nagu) = lull; calm
\n– \u50cd\u304f (\u306f\u305f\u3089\u304f \/ hataraku) = work
\n– \u5ce0 (\u3068\u3046\u3052 \/ t\u014dge) = mountain peak; mountain pass; climax; crest
\n– \u6762 (\u30e2\u30af \/ moku) = woodworker
\n– \u6763 (\u305d\u307e \/ soma) = timber; lumber; woodcutter<\/p>\n
\n– gwynt coch Amwythig<\/strong> = the east wind (“the red \/ sorching wind of Shrewsbury”)
\n– gwynt y creigiau<\/strong> = north-west wind (“wind of the [Snowdonian] rocks”)
\n– gwynt ffroen yr ych<\/strong> = the east wind (“the wind the ox’s nostril”)
\n– gwynt pilyn<\/strong> = breeze created by shaking a sack in order to separate the chaff from the grain when wwinnowing (“wind of a garment”)
\n– gwynt traed y meirw<\/strong> = the east wind (“the wind of dead men’s feet” – refers to the custom of burying people with their feet to the east)<\/p>\n