Where does “kamikaze” come from?
Kamikaze is a Japanese word 神風 derived from Middle Chinese しんぷう, originally denoting a divine wind in East Asian cosmology.
kamikaze (English): An attack requiring the suicide of the one...
Definitions
- An attack requiring the suicide of the one...
Ancestry of “kamikaze”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | 神風 | a divine wind; a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in... |
| 2 | Japanese | 神 | a spirit or an essence present in all things, the... |
| 3 | Japanese | かみ | — |
| 4 | Translingual | − | A long signal, used to form Morse code text, together with. (a short signal) |