{"id":140,"date":"2006-08-22T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/word-of-the-day-%e5%b5%90-arashi\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T17:16:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T16:16:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-arashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u5d50 (arashi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u5d50 (arashi), noun = storm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of usage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u5d50\u304c\u6765\u305d\u3046\u3067\u3059 (arashi ga kis\u014d desu)<br \/>\n<em>It looks as if a storm is going to come<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u5d50\u304c\u6cbb\u307e\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f (arashi ga osamarimashita)<br \/>\n<em>The storm abated<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u7537\u305f\u3061\u306f\u5d50\u306e\u591c\u306b\u51fa\u3066\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f<br \/>\n(otokotachi wa arashi no yoru ni detekimashita<br \/>\n<em>The men went out on a stormy night<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This character is a compound of two characters: on top there&#8217;s a mountain (\u5c71 &#8211; yama) and under that there&#8217;s the character for wind (\u98a8 &#8211; kaze). Storms are common in the mountains, so this combination makes sense. Knowing the meanings of the individual parts of compound characters like this can help you to remember them.<\/p>\n<p>In Mandarin this character is pronounced l\u00e0n means  mountain mist, mountain haze, mountain vapor or mist.<\/p>\n<p>Another, more common, Japanese word for storm is \u66b4\u98a8 (b\u014df\u016b)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5d50 (arashi), noun = storm Examples of usage \u5d50\u304c\u6765\u305d\u3046\u3067\u3059 (arashi ga kis\u014d desu) It looks as if a storm is going to come \u5d50\u304c\u6cbb\u307e\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f (arashi ga osamarimashita) The storm abated \u7537\u305f\u3061\u306f\u5d50\u306e\u591c\u306b\u51fa\u3066\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f (otokotachi wa arashi no yoru ni detekimashita The men went out on a stormy night This character is a compound of two characters: on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}