Hokage
火影
ほかげ
literallyfirelight
Everyone reads this as Fire Shadow, and character by character that is right. But hokage is already a real Japanese word, and it means firelight: the light a fire throws, and the shadows it casts.
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The same characters show up in everyday Japanese. This is where one anime word turns into ten real ones.
火
- 下火したびdying down (of a fire)
- 火花ひばなspark
- 火器かきfirearms
- 火災かさいconflagration
- 火山かざんvolcano
影
- 遺影いえいportrait of a deceased person
- 影響えいきょうinfluence
- 撮影さつえいphotography (still or motion)
- 投影とうえいprojection (of a shadow)
- 面影おもかげface