While doing some practice I often do on the Kotoba-chan app on my phone just now, I noticed… - Feed Post by mog86uk
While doing some practice I often do on the Kotoba-chan app on my phone just now, I noticed something when I encountered the following word: 団扇
The answer was "fan" (as in the thing used to cool oneself down). But the thing I noticed is that the reading of this word 団扇 is うちわ, which in the past would have been spelt うちは ("uchiha")...
And then I realised for the first time that the crest on Uchiha Sasuke's back is very likely a picture of a fan... I'd never thought about what the picture was before. Only worked it out now after randomly encountering this 団扇 word. (Hope I'm not completely wrong about the picture being a fan. I've not seen or looked up anything about this...)
Although people probably don't learn much Japanese just while watching subbed anime, it's the random times like this afterwards which are cool and help with understanding and remembering words. Some of the many other words I've encountered this way: "whirlpool" being 渦巻き (うずまき, uzumaki); "spiral" being 螺線 (らせん, rasen);... I love it when this kinda stuff happens. ^^

The answer was "fan" (as in the thing used to cool oneself down). But the thing I noticed is that the reading of this word 団扇 is うちわ, which in the past would have been spelt うちは ("uchiha")...
And then I realised for the first time that the crest on Uchiha Sasuke's back is very likely a picture of a fan... I'd never thought about what the picture was before. Only worked it out now after randomly encountering this 団扇 word. (Hope I'm not completely wrong about the picture being a fan. I've not seen or looked up anything about this...)
Although people probably don't learn much Japanese just while watching subbed anime, it's the random times like this afterwards which are cool and help with understanding and remembering words. Some of the many other words I've encountered this way: "whirlpool" being 渦巻き (うずまき, uzumaki); "spiral" being 螺線 (らせん, rasen);... I love it when this kinda stuff happens. ^^

posted by mog86uk