神風

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 神風 (kamikaze).

神風

1. kamikaze

神風

1. to kamikaze

/kamukaze/ → /kamikaze/

Shift from Old Japanese kamukaze (see below).

• (Tokyo) かみかぜ (Nakadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

神(かみ)風(かぜ) • (kamikaze) 

1. a divine wind
2. a kamikaze, a suicide pilot in World War Two
3. (figurative) a reckless and dangerous action
4. the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see Mongol invasions of Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

This kamikaze spelling is also the ultimate source of English kamikaze, but by a circuitous route. The characters appear in 神(しん)風(ぷう)特(とく)別(べつ)攻(こう)撃(げき)隊(たい) (shinpū tokubetsu kōgeki tai, “shinpū special attack unit”), the name of airborne kamikaze units surely named after the typhoon but using the on'yomi or Sino-Japanese reading shinpū (see below). The kamikaze reading was used informally in the Japanese media at the time, and this made its way into English. For more, see Kamikaze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

The Japanese term for referring to the WWII suicide pilots is the abbreviated form 特(とっ)攻(こう)隊(たい) (tokkōtai).

• 神(かみ)風(かぜ)タクシー (kamikaze takushī): a kamikaze taxi, a taxi driven recklessly fast
• 神(かみ)風(かぜ)の (kamikaze no): an epithet alluding to Ise
• 神(かみ)風(かぜ)や (kamikaze ya): an epithet alluding to Ise

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.^[2]

Compound of 神 (kamu, “god, deity”, the ancient combining form of modern kami) +‎ 風 (kaze, “wind”).^[3][1][4]

• IPA^(key):

神(かむ)風(かぜ) • (kamukaze) 

1. (archaic) a divine wind
2. (archaic) the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see Mongol invasions of Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• 神(かむ)風(かぜ)の (kamukaze no): an epithet alluding to Ise
• 神(かむ)風(かぜ)や (kamukaze ya): an epithet alluding to Ise

/kamukaze/ → /kankaze/

From Old Japanese. Shift from earlier kamukaze (see above).

• IPA^(key):

神(かん)風(かぜ) • (kankaze) 

1. (archaic) a divine wind
2. (archaic) the typhoons that saved Japan from Mongol invasion in the late 1200s: see Mongol invasions of Japan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese 神風 (MC zyin pjuwng).

• (Tokyo) しんぷう (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

神(しん)風(ぷう) • (shinpū) 

1. a divine wind

• 神(しん)風(ぷう)連(れん) (Shinpūren): the Shinpūren or “Divine Wind League”, an association of ex-samurai committed to the violent undoing of the Meiji Restoration: see Shinpūren rebellion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 神(しん)風(ぷう)特(とく)別(べつ)攻(こう)撃(げき)隊(たい) (shinpū tokubetsu kōgeki tai): “Divine Wind” special attack unit (airborne kamikaze unit)

• 特(とっ)攻(こう)隊(たい) (tokkōtai)

• Discussion of this term on Languagehat, a language blog

神風

1. chữ Hán form of thần phong (“kamikaze”).