Whats the difference between Chidori and Raikiri?

[February]

I've heard Kakashi mention something about that long ago but I don't quite get it still...anyone explain?

[Super5]

I'm pretty sure they're just two names for the same thing... Chi dori means "Thousand birds" and rai kiri means "Lightning Edge". I think Chidori was the original name (because the attack sounds like birds chirping), but the legend is that Kakashi used it to cut lightning - whatever that means - so it acquired the nickname Raikiri.

Long story short, they're the same attack - the one where lightning gathers in your fist and you use it to punch a big hole in something/someone

[ChaosK]

Different spellings...pronunciationj...other than that, Kakashi calls it Raikiri. Everyone else calls it Chidori.

[Knives122]

Sigh.....

Raikiri

Chidori

[Death BOO Z]

sorry knives, that just aing gonna cut it... Wiki/Narutofan aren't official and the people who wrote those parts don't know more about it than everyone else.. I don't recall any diffrence between the two names, and I'm quite sure it was said so when they first introduced the name chidori (Sasuke vs Gaara, probably chapter 105 or something)... Kishi mostly uses Chidori, but i'm guessing he used Raikiri in this chapter to emphetize on the fact that it's a lightning jutsu, and therefore strong against steel (go figure).

[Yukimura]

While I also don't think there's a difference if it was in the data book that there is then it's in the data book... not much you can say I haven't seen a data book translation though so I'd say they're the same thing.