神風

かみかぜ divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century)

Why it means this

(the gods) + (wind) — the 'divine wind', the typhoons that wrecked Mongol invasion fleets in 1274 and 1281; hence the WWII suicide pilots. Read かみかぜ.

Breakdown

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