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On 13/09/2024 3:01 p.m., HenHanna wrote:
> On 9/12/2024 11:12 AM, mwgamera wrote:
>> On 2024-09-12, HenHanna wrote:
>>>       Does 野分 in Chinese mean  颱風 (台風, Typhoon) ?
>>>
>>> in Japanese,   野分き, 野分, のわき  (or Nowake)  means that.
> 
> 
>>
>> I suspect the context is the title of one of the parts of Genji 
>> Monogatari
>> where it was translated as ‘the typhoon’ into English.
>>
>> On the surface the word looks like a Japanese coining; like a literal
>> ‘field-splitting [wind]’. And the etymology given by Digital Daijisen is:
>>> 《野の草を風が強く吹き分ける意》
>>
>> Why should it mean anything in Chinese?   Perhaps it might appear for 
>> the same
>> reason Google Translate went with “nowaki” in English, ie. as an 
>> untranslated
>> foreign term.
>>
> 
> 
> 野分 · late autumn (fall) windstorm in the countryside;  typhoon, esp. 
> one that blows from the 210th to the 220th day of the year
> 

And where did that come from?