神風

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) kamikaze

Verb

 * 1) to kamikaze

Etymology 1
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Shift from kamukaze (see below).

Noun

 * 1) a divine wind
 * 2) a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two
 * 3)  a reckless and dangerous action
 * 4) the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see

Usage notes
This kamikaze spelling is also the ultimate source of 🇨🇬, but by a circuitous route. The characters appear in, the name of airborne kamikaze units surely named after the typhoon but using the on'yomi or Sino-Japanese reading shinpū (see below). The kamikaze reading was used informally in the Japanese media at the time, and this made its way into English. For more, see

The Japanese term for referring to the WWII suicide pilots is the abbreviated form.

Derived terms

 * : a kamikaze taxi, a taxi driven recklessly fast
 * : an epithet alluding to
 * : an epithet alluding to

Etymology 2
From. Found in the , completed some time after 759 CE.

Compound of.

Noun

 * 1)  a divine wind
 * 2)  the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see

Derived terms

 * : an epithet alluding to
 * : an epithet alluding to

Etymology 3
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From. Shift from earlier kamukaze (see above).

Noun

 * 1)  a divine wind
 * 2)  the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) a divine wind

Derived terms

 * : the Shinpūren or “Divine Wind League”, an association of ex-samurai committed to the violent undoing of the : see
 * : “Divine Wind” special attack unit (airborne kamikaze unit)