>From: Anne LaVin <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 28, 2015 1:26 PM >Subject: Re: [Origami] Two Meanings for "Kami" > >In the case of kami (paper) and kami (the "spirits or phenomena that are >worshipped in the religion of Shinto" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami >) the kanji characters are also unrelated. (Just to keep things >interesting, there's a word that means "hair" that's also pronounced >"kami.") I'm not a good enough reader of Japanese to be able to research >word origins, but given the number of such occurrences in Japanese, one >should be careful about assuming that there's some special cultural >relation between divinity and paper just because the words sound alike.
I believe the word for kami (paper) would be zhi (also paper) in Chinese. The root or radical of the character is silk. Thank you, Doug Peterson
