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Gosh, my favorite has to be hiryūzu. The Chinese characters mean flying dragon head. But, the word in Portuguese is filhos which means sons or a type of sweet p

• bakugo 3y ago
  Keep in mind that "filhos" and "filhós" are completely different words.
  • zeruch 3y ago
    Not if you're a cannibal. :)
  • xrd 3y ago
    Absolutely good point. I'm sure it was the pastry version they were using. The incredible thing to me is that if I heard hiryuuzu, I would never have assumed it came from either of these Portuguese words. But, if I say it a few times, it does fit the Japanese tongue and how they would repeat it back if they heard a Portuguese speaker. Japanese does not really have a pure F or a pure H sound, it is in between, and of course, the Portuguese lh is like nothing in Japanese, but fits ryuu. Which is great, being in between L and R. I just love how these off kilter sounds resolve to that romaji. I love even more how the Kanji pronunciation fits and then the Kanji they chose to use for those sounds. It is really fun when a foreign word suddenly gets Japanese characters and there is no historical reason for that. The word just sprang into existence without a backstory at that second.