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CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Pika is pronounced “pie-kuh” generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for “sparking/sparkling” usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).

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SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.

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- Cintari@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:
  
  “Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese].
  
  web.archive.org/…/creator-profile-the-creators-of…
  
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  - SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s… what I said?
    
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    embed_me@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Its light in general, not lightning
    
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- Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Actually, name of many Pokemon are multi layered
  
  So there is no wrong, but both right
  
  It is the beauty of Pokemon names and even concepts
  
  Watch some lockstin and gnoggin if interested in this topic 😇
  
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  - CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah I just think it’s kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.
    
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- CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think these are the same root?
  
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- stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They’re the same. The “pika” is from “hika”, which refers to light.
  
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