Please help with translation (Japanese)! (1 Viewer)

[cafink]

Could one of our multi-lingual HTF members give me a hand and please translate the following Kanji into English? I'd also like to have it spelled out in romaji.
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I took Japanese in college but I'm way out of practice. I think it means "spring thunder" but I need confirmation/correction on that and I have no idea how to pronounce it.

 

[HienN]

Sorry. I tried, even took out my trusted Nelson dictionary but couldn't decipher it. I'll ask someone at work next week. Where did you see the characters, and in what context? Next time, ask something easy like a i u e o.

 

[cafink]

Thanks for trying. I appreciate it. It's the name of a song.

 

[Henry C]

Literally translated, it does mean Spring Thunder.

 

[NickSo]

Yeah thats about right... its also chinese too :p)
I knew the first one word was spring, but the second i wasnt too sure.. i knew it had something to do with rain...

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Nick, that's because every time the Japanese invaded China they took some characters back with them
Seriously, if you can read either language, you can at least get the gist in the other

 

[Don_Houle]

I found this listed in an on-line Japanese dictionary site. Not sure of the usage for this particular compound, but it's pronounced 'shunrai'.

If your browser is set up with Japanese encoding, you can see the kanji and hiragana:

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[Jeff Kleist]

Or it could be pronounced a totally different way depending on context

 

[HienN]

Sorry it took me so long. Like Don_Houle said, it is pronounced "shunrai". Literally it means "spring thunder", and it means something like the first thunder of spring or the first thunder of the rainy season.