Hamon & Hamon

[Baka Gaijin]

Morning all

 

In the course of some reading I came upon Hamon 破門.

 

I've got this far:

 

Hamon 刃文 (The term we use in Nihonto study).

 

Hamon 破門 (Literally "outside the gate" to exclude or expell).

 

Are they pronounced similarly in Japanese?

 

(Homophones like the English to, too, two.)

 

Input required please.

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[John A Stuart]

Hi Malcolm, 破門 is pronounced 'hamon', but, means excommunication. John

[Baka Gaijin]

Good afternoon John

 

Many thanks

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[Guido]

You are both right: 破門 has a couple of meanings, among them to exclude, to ban, to excommunicate a.s.o. One of the reasons why the Japanese never gave up Kanji - or in other words, switched to Kana or the alphabet - is indeed that it has all those countless homophones.

[cabowen]

and a never ending source for wordplay....Here's one example:

 

after eating men will sometimes say "uma katta" which is the past tense of umai, meaning it was tasty, delicious, etc....

 

I heard someone say instead "ushi maketa" which means the cow lost....if the cow lost, the inference is the horse won....horse is uma and won is katta.....