± Name Analysis
Yondaime's name, if you were to break it down and analyze it. Technically Yondaime's birth name has not been revealed in the manga or in the anime, so the only name he has is "Yondaime".
四代目
Fourth Generation
Yondaime is not only a name but a superstitious pun that makes reference to his fate in the Naruto series. The pun will make more sense if you have knowledge with certain Asian languages. In both Chinese (mostly Cantonese), Korean, and Japanese there are these superstitious number puns. The numbers sound like other words in the language and are sometimes used in combination with other numbers to make a phrase. For example "Yondaime". The thing that makes Yondaime "unlucky" is because of the number four. Four in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese sound like the word "death". Yondaime having the number 4 in his name while utilizing other words that sound like the number "four", basically implies that he's dead, that he should be dead, or other various notions relating to death. To make things worse, in Cantonese if you call him "dai sei" it also means something relating to death, however ... i'm not translating that. (laugage barrier hah!)
The other Hokage could also be considered a superstitious puns. For example (Note these are written in refrence to the Cantonese dialect.)
Yondaime's name, if you were to break it down and analyze it. Technically Yondaime's birth name has not been revealed in the manga or in the anime, so the only name he has is "Yondaime".
Fourth Generation
Yondaime is not only a name but a superstitious pun that makes reference to his fate in the Naruto series. The pun will make more sense if you have knowledge with certain Asian languages. In both Chinese (mostly Cantonese), Korean, and Japanese there are these superstitious number puns. The numbers sound like other words in the language and are sometimes used in combination with other numbers to make a phrase. For example "Yondaime". The thing that makes Yondaime "unlucky" is because of the number four. Four in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese sound like the word "death". Yondaime having the number 4 in his name while utilizing other words that sound like the number "four", basically implies that he's dead, that he should be dead, or other various notions relating to death. To make things worse, in Cantonese if you call him "dai sei" it also means something relating to death, however ... i'm not translating that. (laugage barrier hah!)
The other Hokage could also be considered a superstitious puns. For example (Note these are written in refrence to the Cantonese dialect.)
- Ichi for Shodai - 1 sounds like a word which means "guaranteed". In other words, Shodai's goal of establishing the Konoha village was "guaranteed"/successful.
- Nidaime - 2 sounds like a word which means "easy". Since there isn't any information regarding Nidaime's 'extroardinary feats' if there are any, it is safe to assume that while he was in Konoha, his job as considered "easy".
- Sandaime - 3 sounds like words which mean "birth" and other words which make reference to life. Sandaime was also the one who gave "life" to the people in Konoha by providing them a long period of peace in their village.
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