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Why is kunoichi written this way? - Cyborg Ninja - 2015-01-06
A kunoichi is a female ninja. Kunoichi is written くの一 or くノ一. Why is it written that way?
Why is kunoichi written this way? - Flamerokz - 2015-01-06
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunoichi
Why is kunoichi written this way? - Tzadeck - 2015-01-06
Comes from the kanji for woman: 女, which as three different strokes looks like く ノ and 一. Can also just be a slangy way of writing 'woman,' it doesn't have to be a ninja.
Why is kunoichi written this way? - Cyborg Ninja - 2015-01-12
Thanks for the reply. Tzadeck, is your name derived from tzadik or zadik?
Why is kunoichi written this way? - Tzadeck - 2015-01-12
Cyborg Ninja Wrote:Thanks for the reply. Tzadeck, is your name derived from tzadik or zadik?It's derived from Tzadik. It's pretty rare that people ask to be honest--I've been using this name online for like 17 years and maybe ten people have asked about it. Mostly people who speak Hebrew. I'm not Jewish myself, I just read a silly essay about Kabbalah when I was a kid and I thought it sounded cool. For some reason it was romanized as 'Tzadeck' there but I've never seen that anywhere else.