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I'm a chinese speaker, this new era name sounds kind of weird. When written in kanji, the previous nengos (meiji, taisho, showa, heisei) makes sense, and you ca

I'm a chinese speaker, this new era name sounds kind of weird. When written in kanji, the previous nengos (meiji, taisho, showa, heisei) makes sense, and you can kind of tell the message it tries to convey. It just feels weird to me to concatenate "rei" and "wa" together.

unsignedint 8y ago
This may be due to the fact that previous era names had its source in Chinese literature. Reiwa, on the other hand, comes from passage that appears in Manyoshu poetry collection.
- glandium 8y ago
  It's not even a word in Manyōshū. It's two characters taken from two words in a sentence from there, 令月 and 和ぎ.
  - rangibaby 8y ago
    Heisei and Showa are both made up of single characters selected from poetry passages, I guess that is how they choose names