Comment on Pika Pika
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoPika 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).
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.
Cintari@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:
web.archive.org/…/creator-profile-the-creators-of…
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That’s… what I said?
embed_me@programming.dev 10 months ago
Its light in general, not lightning
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months 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 😇
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think these are the same root?
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
They’re the same. The “pika” is from “hika”, which refers to light.