| i dunno is it fine to ask this in anime forum section or not. so, i'm on the progress of learning japanese then i saw this anime. the name of title is 火狩りの王 which means fire hunting king, i tog at first the title is light king because the romaji said hikari no ou. why is it not called higari no ou (due to rendaku in japanese language method)? |
| Because Hi and Kari in Hikari is seperate in this case. 狩り as in kari, meaning hunting. 火 as in hi, meaning fire and の王 part meaning no ou. Hi kari no ou, fire hunter king. |
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| how to define it is separate or not? bcs when it's just 火狩り (without の王) it reads as higari not hikari |
| Don't we read this 火狩り as hikari? 狩 is ka, が is ga. Higari 火がり should look like this afaik. |
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| Normally I think it would be higari, but I think it is pronounced hikari in this case to have a double meaning of "light"? I've also read other people thinking it's the case. |
| Just a casual anime watcher |
FeeFeez said: no, it spelled as higari due to rendaku, the kanji 狩 in kun-yomi reading indeed spelled as ka(ri) but because it meets with 火 (hi) it becomes higari.Don't we read this 火狩り as hikari? 狩 is ka, が is ga. Higari 火がり should look like this afaik. (another sample, if you watch re:zero, you could hear majogari which means is witch hunting, it's written as 魔女狩り) lanaerys said: could be, but i have tried to hear the pronunciation on translator services, it spelled as higari when it's just 火狩り but become hikari (no ou) when it's written as 火狩りの王, still have no clueNormally I think it would be higari, but I think it is pronounced hikari in this case to have a double meaning of "light"? I've also read other people thinking it's the case. |
Link___Jan 24, 2023 4:48 PM
Link___ said: could be, but i have tried to hear the pronunciation on translator services, it spelled as higari when it's just 火狩り but become hikari (no ou) when it's written as 火狩りの王, still have no clue Might be because it knows of the novel/anime. |
| Just a casual anime watcher |
| Rendaku is not a rule, it's a tendency. And since hunting fire is not a usual thing in Japan, or anywhere, it's basically up to the author to decide whether is "hikari" or "higari". |
Erebus25Feb 4, 2023 3:03 AM
Erebus25 said: This. It's a made up word by the author, so the author can call it whatever he wants. Combine that with double meaning for 光, and easy to see why it's called ひかり.Rendaku is not a rule, it's a tendency. And since hunting fire is not usually thing in Japan, or anywhere, it's basically up to the author to decide whether is "hikari" or "higari". I would never trust translator services aka MTL for literature. Something like this needs context to translate, even a person actually translating it can get it wrong if they are not familiar with the source. |
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