I did check somewhere that mixing "Yama" and "Kaze" words turn into "Arashi" XD

I wonder how these Kanji were created in the first place. Was Arashi some kind of great wind from mountain back in the day?

Inazuma gets it

BarefeetChaser said:

I wonder how these Kanji were created in the first place. Was Arashi some kind of great wind from mountain back in the day?

Maybe because the wind is so towering, the storm feels like a mountain.

DAS58 said:

Maybe because the wind is so towering, the storm feels like a mountain.

That make sense.
It's quite interesting imagining the scene.

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Plasma-trolling.

The original Chinese character "嵐" meant "mountain mist", the radical "山" lends the meaning of "mountain", whereas "風" was used as a phonetic component and had no relations with wind.

In Japenese, the word "あらし(arashi)", which means "wind from the mountains", existed before kanji was introduced to Japan. When people saw the kanji "嵐" they probably associated it with the word "あらし(arashi)" due to the literal reading of the parts. This kanji was also not the only candidate for the word but became the mainstream one.

unicode said:

The original Chinese character "嵐" meant "mountain mist", the radical "山" lends the meaning of "mountain", whereas "風" was used as a phonetic component and had no relations with wind.

In Japenese, the word "あらし(arashi)", which means "wind from the mountains", existed before kanji was introduced to Japan. When people saw the kanji "嵐" they probably associated it with the word "あらし(arashi)" due to the literal reading of the parts. This kanji was also not the only candidate for the word but became the mainstream one.

Is that so? I knew it was imported like most Kanji, but I used to think arashi means "storm" or something. Guess I need to pick up the textbooks again.

BarefeetChaser said:

Is that so? I knew it was imported like most Kanji, but I used to think arashi means "storm" or something. Guess I need to pick up the textbooks again.

It does mean "storm", both in the literal (weather phenomenon) and figurative ("agitation", "commotion", "shake-up", etc.) sense, but the etymology of the word is derived from "wind from the mountains", making it related to 颪.

NNescio said:

It does mean "storm", both in the literal (weather phenomenon) and figurative ("agitation", "commotion", "shake-up", etc.) sense, but the etymology of the word is derived from "wind from the mountains", making it related to 颪.

Very intriguing, thanks for the help.

This kind of confusion really happened inside IJN. The mail addressed to Yamakaze was wrongly delivered to Arashi quite often, and vice versa.

ithekro said:

Plasma-trolling.

Especially since Arashi is a rare drop in and of herself. I can imagine a Teitoku yelling, "Why didn't you drop at Vanilla Gulf?"

This is actually happened to me in E-2...

Brightlight said:

This kind of confusion really happened inside IJN. The mail addressed to Yamakaze was wrongly delivered to Arashi quite often, and vice versa.

What is funnier is that both ships are linked to USS Nautilus (SS-168). Yamakaze was sunk by said submarine while Arashi was attacking said submarine at the Battle of Midway and spotted by the SDB divebombers after failing to sink it and returning to the main fleet. The rest of the story is obvious.