Fry Daddy Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Does anyone have a resource to translate english phrases into Chinese/Japanese/Korean, etc. phonetic language (i.e. not written character translations)?) For example, if I have a Chinese character named "Speed Shadow" in English, what would be the Chinese pronunciation of that name? How would you spell it out with the english alphabet? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinDangaioh Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Speed Shadow in Mandarin Chinese - Su du Ying ji Speed Shadow in Cantonese Chinese-Chuk douh Ying zi Speed Shadow in Japanese-Sokudo Kage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Here's one for you. How Would you say "Pretty Quick" in Japanese? I have a teen heroine by that name, and I'd like to be able to keep the double meaning if possible. ie: Cute and Fast TimS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 17, 2003 Report Share Posted May 17, 2003 Originally posted by Tim Here's one for you. How Would you say "Pretty Quick" in Japanese? I have a teen heroine by that name, and I'd like to be able to keep the double meaning if possible. ie: Cute and Fast TimS. I know almost no Japanese, but I'm going to take on the challenge of figuring it out using deductive reasoning. I know that "kawaii" means "cute" in Japanese - there was a Champions villain by that name in Villainy Unbound. And since "kage" means "shadow" (I know that from the great Kurosawa film Kagemusha), I'm guessing that "sokudo" from ShinDangaioh's example of "Sokudo Kage" above is the "speed" part of "Speed Shadow." So, I'm going to take a guess that "Pretty Quick" would translate as "Kawaii Sokudo." Anyone care to tell me how far off I am? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightray Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Googling for online translators is one of my hobbies. I usually go to these sites for: Japanese http://linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/dict Chinese (Pinyin, really) http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insaniac99 Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 this is a good free multilingual translation site: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Your double meaning won't remain, Tim. English is unusual in that "attractive" and "relatively" can both be expressed in one word. I've found that most online translators are fairly good for western European languages, and fairly bad for eastern Asian languages. Some people at work were bored one day and used babelfish to come up with their own answers to engrish.com by translating from English to Japanese and back again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 I didn't expect it to really. I think Japanese would be one that would appreciate the double meaning though. TimS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altamaros Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Re: English to Eastern Language Translations Originally posted by Fry Daddy For example, if I have a Chinese character named "Speed Shadow" in English, what would be the Chinese pronunciation of that name? How would you spell it out with the english alphabet? Thanks. For chinese at least, i rely solely on this one : http://www.zhongwen.com/ hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fry Daddy Posted May 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Thanks, everyone. This really helps me a lot. I appreciate the feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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