Talk:氷

北極

The kanji 北極 (ほっきょく) are read here as 氷 (こおり).
http://www.daizex.com/multimedia/lyrics/jap-cha_la_head_cha_la.html

what are the reasons behind it? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I think this happens a lot in songs, manga, and poems. They give words a pronunciation that is not theirs. Examples I've seen is like 「さだめ」 in 「運命」, 「いのち」 in 「生命」, etc. It probably is trying to convey that the north pole is basically ice? I am sure there are better examples of this, but I can't recall any at the moment Onionbar (talk) 12:55, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Artists leverage the fact that in Japanese language, kanji and the reading doesn’t have to match (i.e. kanji can be pronounced differently sometimes at will, unlike Chinese for example). Some other examples include 宇宙 read as そら(空) instead of the usual うちゅう. Reasons could be that the reading fits the lyrics better when sung, but the kanji used can express some ulterior meanings. Like the above example, the “universe” is certainly more expansive than the sky but the reading うちゅう may not fit the lyrics. In other instances, it can also be used as puns, and it can also extend to foreign loan words in katakana.

https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/198/why-are-some-lyrics-words-written-in-kanji-whose-usual-reading-is-not-how-it-is

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furigana#Punning_and_double_meaningShen233 (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2020 (UTC)