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Learning Japanese with Berserk: World Spiral Tree
🕑 Added 2022-04-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTCThat one's a mouthful: the World Spiral Tree! In Japanese, it's pronounced せかい らせん じゅ (SEKAI RASEN JU), and is written 世界螺旋樹. It's actually a pretty simple translation: 世界 (SEKAI) means "world", 螺旋 (RASEN) means "spiral", and 樹 (JU) means "tree".
Those familiar with Japanese might remark that "tree" is more commonly written 木 and pronounced き (KI). 樹 is an alternative spelling for it, and it's pronounced じゅ (JU) in this case because it's part of a multi-kanji compound word. It's the on'yomi, meaning the pronunciation derived from the original Chinese sound for the word.
Something worth noting is that only Falconia folks calls the tree by that name. In Elfhelm, the Great Gurus only refer to it as 世界樹 (SEKAI JU), the World Tree. The "spiral" aspect is therefore all the more intriguing. What could it refer to? Well, see what I thought 10 years ago!
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Skullknight.NET
I don't think so. I didn't really pay attention to it at the time, but writing this post made me realize there's probably a reason for it.
Walter
>only Falconia folks calls the tree by that name. In Elfhelm, the Great Gurus only refer to it as 世界樹 (SEKAI JU), the World Tree. Hmmm! Interesting. Maybe it's just a brevity thing?
