Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name

Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by ta1234512 on Monday April 01, 2019 @02:44AM (#19541073)

I'm a chinese speaker, this new era name sounds kind of weird. When written in kanji, the previous nengos (meiji, taisho, showa, heisei) makes sense, and you can kind of tell the message it tries to convey. It just feels weird to me to concatenate "rei" and "wa" together.

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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by unsignedint on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:15AM (#19541199)

This may be due to the fact that previous era names had its source in Chinese literature.

Reiwa, on the other hand, comes from passage that appears in Manyoshu poetry collection.

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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by glandium on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:50AM (#19542047)

It's not even a word in Manyōshū. It's two characters taken from two words in a sentence from there, 令月 and 和ぎ.

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Re:Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name by rangibaby on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:21AM (#19542939)

Heisei and Showa are both made up of single characters selected from poetry passages, I guess that is how they choose names

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