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Old 08-26-2009, 01:31 AM   #15
Carsten Möllering
 
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Re: Tenshin, Tenkai??

and interesting:

shin - 身 in 転身 - tenshin means body, oneself. The other reading is mi, like in hanmi.

And while 回 - kai means something like recurrence, round after round, 換 - ka(e) is more about transformation, change, exchange.

And all that comes together with 転 - ten: Turning around.
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