How did you like the Demon Slayer movie? The movie smashed literally all movie related records in Japan, and the second season of the anime is scheduled to be released in October. The first season of the anime and the movie only covered up to Vol. 8 of the manga, so we still have a long way to go! So, it’s timely to learn some Japanese from the characters’ Breathing Styles!
Water Breathing – Second Form
We discussed Water Breathing First Form in the last post, so we will talk about the second form today.
This is a form Tanjiro first used in Final Selection. The user jumps and attacks while spinning like a water wheel.
As you can see, this form in Japanese is
水の呼吸 弍ノ型 水車
mizuno kokyū ni no kata mizuguruma
What do these kanji mean?
水 (mizu / sui): water
車 (kuruma / sha): car
If you combine these two kanji, then you get
水車 (suisha or mizu guruma): water wheel
In Japanese, a waterwheel can be called wither すいしゃ or みずぐるま. The former is what’s called Kun reading and the latter is called On reading. Kun reading is the Chinese reading based on the sounds of the kanji characters as pronounced by the Chinese at the time these kanji were introduced. On the other hand, Kun reading is the native Japanese reading associated with the meaning of kanji characters. To me, みずぐるま sounds better as a name of the attack, while すいしゃ does just sounds like the object.
Hopefully, this has helped you to remember a few kanji characters 😉 じゃ、さようなら〜！
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