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This is weird. I thought this was an April Fool's joke. 冷戦 means cold war, so 令和 would mean cold peace. Not that this has an actual meaning but if we assign one
by quelltext 8y ago
This is weird. I thought this was an April Fool's joke. 冷戦 means cold war, so 令和 would mean cold peace. Not that this has an actual meaning but if we assign one it's not very positive, i.e. things will appear unpeaceful and there will be wars, but actually this is peace, in the background.
Not that this is the meaning they chose, but I find it just a bit curious.
- hkmurakami 8y agoThose two homonym “Rei” characters do not mean the same thing. Reiwa is a newly conjured “word” that means roughly “declaration/ordinance of peace” https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/233980/meaning/m0u/ https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/233980/meaning/m0u/
- quelltext 8y agoYeah, I'm stupid.
- qlk1123 8y agoNot at all. Making mistakes is one of the best things when you learn a language. Kanjis can be complicated, but also fun. Cheers!
- comex 8y agoIf it makes you feel better, here's a (presumably) Japanese person making the same association: https://www.reddit.com/r/newsokur/comments/b7wf5k/令という漢字/ejuni4o/ https://www.reddit.com/r/newsokur/comments/b7wf5k/令という漢字/eju... Rough translation: "Somehow this kanji feels winter-like. I guess because of a strong sense of '冷'."
- glandium 8y ago令 and 冷 are different characters. They only have the same reading, from their common 音符 (onpu), 令. Other characters with the same onpu: 零, 玲, 怜, etc. All these characters have different meanings.