Biggest Realizations / Mind Blows You've Experienced Learning Japanese: Emoji means what?!?!

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雷【 かみなり】（Thunder）＝神鳴り（God’s roar）

湖 (lake )＝ みず + うみ = freshwater sea

There’s so many kunyomi that make more sense now.

Have to get on reading this thread, how didi I miss it:

Special kanji words derived from other words

Continuing from here, in this topic we can discuss kanji that become their own words, that are clearly derived from simpler kanji/words. For example, 掌(てのひら) (meaning palm of one’s hand), is literally 手の平. Let’s gather all of these interesting kanji that fit this pattern. When the origin isn’t a valid spelling, dictionaries like Goo will sometimes mention the origin. For example, the entry for 湖 says 《「水海」の意》. Origin is a valid alternative spelling: Word Reading Origin 碑 いしぶみ 石文 彩る …