Hokage
火影
ほかげ
literallyfirelight
Everyone reads this as Fire Shadow, and character by character that is right. But hokage is already a real Japanese word, and it means firelight: the light a fire throws, and the shadows it casts.
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The same characters show up in everyday Japanese. This is where one anime word turns into ten real ones.
火
- 火ひfire
- 火山かざんvolcano
- 火災かさいconflagration
- 噴火ふんかeruption
- 火砕流かさいりゅうpyroclastic flow
影
- 影響えいきょうinfluence
- 撮影さつえいphotography
- 影かげshadow
- 影の内閣かげのないかくshadow cabinet
- 面影おもかげface
火・影 — every one of these is a square on the grid of 2,136 jōyō kanji. Three a day, quizzed through real words.
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