{"id":22799,"date":"2023-03-24T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22799"},"modified":"2023-03-24T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:04:12","slug":"rumbling-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22799","title":{"rendered":"Rumbling Carts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese word \u8f5f\u3005 \/ \u3054\u3046\u3054\u3046 \/ \u30b4\u30fc\u30b4\u30fc (g\u014dg\u014d) means thundering, roaring, rumbling or booming. The kanji \u8f5f (g\u014d\/k\u014d\/todoro) is made up of three carts (\u8eca), and is also used as a surname, which is pronounced Kuruma, G\u014d or Todoroki.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/rumbling-carts.jpg\" alt=\"Rumbling Carts \u8f5f\u8f5f (g\u014dg\u014d) - thundering, roaring, rumbling, booming\" width=\"630\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\n<p>This kanji also appears in words like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u8f5f\u97f3 (g\u014d\u2019on) = thunderous roar, roaring sound<\/li>\n<li>\u8f5f\u304f (todoroku) = to roar, reverberate, be well-known, be famous, palpitate, throb<\/li>\n<li>\u8f5f\u304b\u3059 (todorosu) = to make a thundering sound, to make (one\u2019s name, etc.) widely known, to make (one\u2019s heart) pound<\/li>\n<li>\u8f5f\u7136 (g\u014dzen) = roaring, thundering, thunderous, deafening, ear-splitting<\/li>\n<li>\u8f5f\u304d (todoroki) = roar, peal, rumble, booming, beating, pounding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Mandarin Chinese the character \u8f70 [\u8f5f] is pronounced h\u014dng and means explosion, bang, boom, rumble, to attack, shoo away, expel.<\/p>\n<p>It appears in words like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u8f70\u52a8\u7684\u6210\u5c31 [\u8f5f\u52d5\u7684\u6210\u5c31] (h\u014dngd\u00f2ng de ch\u00e9ngji\u00f9) = a howling success<\/li>\n<li>\u8f70\u52a8\u5168\u4e16\u754c [\u8f5f\u52d5\u5168\u4e16\u754c] (h\u014dngd\u00f2ng qu\u00e1nsh\u00ecji\u00e8) = to set the world on fire<\/li>\n<li>\u8f70\u9686 [\u8f5f\u9686] (h\u014dngl\u014dng ) = to rumble<\/li>\n<li>\u8f70\u8f70\u70c8\u70c8 [\u8f5f\u8f5f\u70c8\u70c8] (h\u014dngh\u014dngli\u00e8li\u00e8) = vigorously, grand and spectacular, fiery<\/li>\n<li>\u8f70\u8d76 [\u8f5f\u8d95] (h\u014dngg\u01cen) = to drive off, shoo away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like these compound characters that are made up of several duplicated characters. Other examples include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u6797 (hayashi &#8211; wood, forest), and \u68ee (mori &#8211; forest) which are made up of several \u6728 (ki &#8211; tree, shrub, bush, wood, timber). Put them together and we get \u68ee\u6797 (shinrin &#8211; forest, woods).<\/li>\n<li>\u708e (hon\u014d &#8211; flame, blaze, passion), which are made up of two \u706b (hi &#8211; fire)<\/li>\n<li>\u54c1 (hin &#8211; elegance, grace, article, item), which are made up of several \u53e3 (kuchi &#8211; mouth)<\/li>\n<li>\u9f96 (t\u00e0 &#8211; flight of a dragon), \u9f98 (t\u00e0 &#8211; the appearance of a dragon walking) and \ud869\udea5 (zh\u00e9 &#8211; verbose) which are made up of several \u9f8d [\u9f99] (l\u00f3ng &#8211; dragon).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dragon examples are rare and in Mandarin, the rest are in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/%E8%BD%9F\">jisho.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdbg.net\/chinese\/dictionary?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=1&amp;wdqb=%E8%BD%9F\">mdbg.net<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dict.naver.com\/linedict\/zhendict\/dict.html#\/cnen\/search?query=%E8%BD%B0\">Line Dict CHINESE-ENGLISH<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese word \u8f5f\u3005 \/ \u3054\u3046\u3054\u3046 \/ \u30b4\u30fc\u30b4\u30fc (g\u014dg\u014d) means thundering, roaring, rumbling or booming. The kanji \u8f5f (g\u014d\/k\u014d\/todoro) is made up of three carts (\u8eca), and is also used as a surname, which is pronounced Kuruma, G\u014d or Todoroki. This kanji also appears in words like: \u8f5f\u97f3 (g\u014d\u2019on) = thunderous roar, roaring sound \u8f5f\u304f [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799","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=22799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22806,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions\/22806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}