{"id":22276,"date":"2022-06-24T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22276"},"modified":"2022-07-01T18:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:41:43","slug":"mountain-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22276","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/mountainwind.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"\u5d50 (arashi) - storm, tempest, uproar or hullabaloo\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"><\/p>\n<p>An interesting Japanese word I learnt recently is \u5d50 (arashi), which means storm, tempest, uproar or hullabaloo [<a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/arashi\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It is made up of the kanji \u5c71 (yama), which means mountain, hill, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/yama\">various other things<\/a>, and \u98a8 (kaze), which means wind, breeze, manner, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/kaze\">various other things<\/a>. So if when I first saw the kanji \u5d50, I guessed that it was referred to some kind of wind from the mountains, or a wind that lives among the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>\u5d50 appears in the following phrases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u5927\u5d50  (\u014d arashi) = raging storm<\/li>\n<li>\u7802\u5875\u5d50 (sajin arashi) = dust storm, sand storm<\/li>\n<li>\u5d50\u306e\u524d\u306e\u9759\u3051\u3055 (arashi no mae no shizukesa) = calm before the storm<\/li>\n<li>\u8352\u6f6e (arashi o) = violent tide, fierce tidal current<\/li>\n<li>\u5d50\u3092\u547c\u3076 (arashi o yobu) = to cause a commotion, to create a big stir, to invoke a storm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other stormy words in Japanese include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u66b4\u98a8 (b\u014df\u016b) = storm, windstorm or gale, or literally \u201coutburst (of) wind\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u66b4\u98a8\u96e8 (b\u014df\u016b&#8217;u), = rainstorm or storm, or literally \u201coutburst (of) wind (and) rain\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u5439\u96ea (fubuki) = snow torm or blizzard, or literally \u201cblow snow\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>\u98b6 (gu) = storm &#8211; normally appears in the word \u98b6\u98a8 (guf\u016b) = tornado, hurricane, typhoon<\/li>\n<li>\u730b (hy\u016b) = wind, storm, gale, dog moving (made up of three dog kanji &#8211; \u72ac (inu))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u66b4\u98a8 and \u66b4\u98a8\u96e8 can also be pronounced arashi  [<a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/storm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The character \u5c9a [\u5d50] also exists in Chinese and is pronounced l\u00e1n in Mandarin. It means mountain mist or haze, and is used mainly in place names, such as \u5c9a\u5c71\u533a (Lanshan District), a part of Rizhao City (\u65e5\u7167\u5e02) in Shandong Province in the northeast of China, and \u5c9a\u768b\u53bf (Langao County) in Shaanxi Province in central China.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a district of Kyoto in Japan called \u5d50\u5c71 (Arashiyama), and a nearby mountain with the same name. That area is famous for its bamboo forests.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11984633@N02\/26510099669\/in\/photolist-GoBc2X-SB5rhN-PwYbiT-2de9QBF-2hNP3GV-vKpRQX-HLKU3G-N1zKiQ-M6WRdK-2mnuyvr-2ijVKhv-2ip6DXM-2nmzgp9-JkLnw2-Lpkfsv-TGZBiy-25aV7Ln-24ekLAc-2gvsNtc-SNDVeo-29REtga-2ePn3oX-2hkzjaT-2kHo9e4-2iuH6Cm-26B82bS-FKapaq-2dKQvtj-JKrmqo-2hd8Su2-28bZjoS-GX4ua6-2kYvsze-2izj6q6-EcgkBm-r3xTmb-axLKWQ-2iHjLTb-24eKWLw-97YaL2-NBRyNp-2iZdMT3-xNnm7J-RmGQS5-nxe2ab-nyYDXn-7kUGGY-GiuBcs-NNWYjm-2h7fQbL\" title=\"Arashiyama Bamboo Grove\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4585\/26510099669_ce685af07c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Arashiyama Bamboo Grove\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A good spot for a bit of \u68ee\u6797\u6d74 (senrinyoku), that is forest bathing \/ therapy, or  in other words, a peaceful walk through the woods for health benefits. This word was apparently coined in 1982 by Tomohide Akiyama (\u79cb\u5c71\u667a\u82f1), the head of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, to encourage more visitors to forests\u200b. Although it was a new word, the idea that spending time among trees in a forest is good for your health has been around for a long time in Japan [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nature_therapy\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>While writing this, I realised that Omniglot doesn&#8217;t have a page about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/weather\/index.htm\">weather-related words<\/a> in Japanese yet &#8211; I will put one together soon. If you know any interesting weather-related words and\/or idioms in Japanese, do let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Japanese word I learnt recently is \u5d50 (arashi), which means storm, tempest, uproar or hullabaloo [source]. It is made up of the kanji \u5c71 (yama), which means mountain, hill, and various other things, and \u98a8 (kaze), which means wind, breeze, manner, and various other things. So if when I first saw the kanji [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,129,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-japanese","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276","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=22276"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22307,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22276\/revisions\/22307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}