Bleach Wiki:Translation Corner

The Translation Corner is a group of Bleach Wiki users who are tasked with translating the various names, abilities, techniques and etc. found in the Bleach Universe. Being that Bleach is a Japanese manga that use Japanese, Chinese, Indian, German, Spanish and English language in various instances and cases, the use of translators is a focal point to the continuation of accuracy on the wiki. All users should read our Translation Guidelines before you start translating.

Roles of the Translation Corner
The following are the duties of the corner:


 * 1. To assure the correctness of all translations that are presented on the site.


 * 2. To determine the outcome of Contentious Translations: If a translation is questioned at all, that should be brought up in this section. In this way a translator, committee member or admin can explain why the translation is used or conversation can take place for translations that are harder to classify.


 * 3. To determine the correct translation of Zanpakutō (names, release calls, etc.): This section is for requests for translation of zanpakuto and zanpakuto related translations.


 * 4. To determine the correct translation of Character and element (e.g. devices) names: This section is for requests for translation of characters/techniques/equipment and general key words.


 * 5. To determine the correct translation of General/Other translation issues (e.g. conjugation/miscellanea): This section is for requests about translations that don't fit any particular criteria such as conjugation or such things such as accents used in the names.

Associate Members

 * Adam Restling (Primary Japanese Translator)
 * MarqFJA (Secondary Japanese Translator)
 * Vraieesprit (Japanese to English Translation)
 * ЖенёqSig.png

References & Sources

 * Kanji-to-English:
 * Tangorin
 * Mahou Kanji Dictionary
 * Kanji Networks
 * OldNihongo.J-Talk.Com
 * Basic Japanese verbal data: The imperative inflection of Japanese verbs

Associate Box
Ok folks I have finally gotten around to makeing the Associate Box. You can put it on your user page using the command. Below is what the box looks like. Tinni  (Talk)  14:37, April 8, 2010 (UTC)

Translation Guidelines

 * Anyone doing any form of translation. Looking up on Google Translate or similar translation tools, is not translating. You are not doing the site any favors by doing amateur translation. Please refrain from using such tools.


 * This is not a conversation page. It is a simple question and answer page for translation. All conversations should be held on a particular user talk page or the talk page of this page.


 * Users should simply place their request and wait for it to be answered. To keep it simple, if the user posting the request has no real understanding of translation, the point is not for you to learn how to translate here. Usage of the page should extend no more then to asking for a translation to be done. Please refrain from badgering the translators for understanding on why a translation is translated a certain way. If you knew anything about translation you wouldn't be asking someone else to do it, therefore it makes no sense to argue with them.


 * If you are not a member of the translation corner, please do not answer translation questions. Leave it to our translators so as to avoid confusion.


 * Admin have the final say on the translation being placed into a article.

Heilig Pfeil
On Yhwach someone copied the wrong katakana for the reading of Heilig Pfeil's Japanese name. It should be ハイリッヒ・プファイル Hairihhi Pufairu but someone wrote ハイリッヒ・ブファイル Hairihhi Bufairu and apparently this is contentious despite the fact that the Japanese pronunciation of other instances of the German word "Pfeil" is Pufairu.— Ryūlóng ( 竜龍 ) 11:03, November 4, 2013 (UTC)

I think this is because, in the early Millennial Blood War chs.--such as 508 "烈火の如" (Rekkano Gotoshi)--the raw seems to use Bufairu (ブファイル). I haven't tracked--and can't recall--all the subsequent uses of Heilig Pfeil since, so I haven't discovered whether this has been corrected to *Pufairu in the volume-release forms and later chs. But you're right, it should be Pufairu, if a fidelity to the German form it means to adapt is properly pursued.

Can anyone point me toward a more recent usage I can check (plowing through old chs. is tough)? Adam Restling (talk) 21:30, December 11, 2013 (UTC)


 * Only mentions of heilig pfeil I've found are in Ch 490 page 9 & Ch 508 page 11. My raws are too blurry to distinguish プ　and ブ... — ЖенёqSig.png 13:33, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

Kinshara Butōdan
Obviously we need some raws here.--
 * — Golden Sal Tree Dancing Troupe? — ЖенёqSig.png 13:40, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

This is the raw if anyone wishes to see.--Xilinoc (talk) 16:19, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

Yep, those Kanji (and your trans.) look correct: Kinshara Butōdan (金沙羅舞踏団), "golden sal dance troupe". Thanks for the data :). Adam Restling (talk) 06:51, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Sumitsukigasa
While looking over episode 340 for totally not nefarious purposes, I found something...odd. On Yushima's page, we have the kanji and translation as, but on that page, it's listed as. Now, I know that it's from the anime and therefore likely doesn't have established, written-out kanji for us to see, but could someone decide which one would be proper/more likely?--Xilinoc (talk) 21:59, December 19, 2013 (UTC)

"no Jōmon" barriers
So, from the raws I've been using, which have all the kana we'll ever need from the first forty six volumes, I noticed some slight romanization errors in the group of barriers Hachigen used against Barragan. The errors I noticed are as follows:
 * Ryubi no Jōmon - should be Ryūbi no Jōmon
 * Koko no Jōmon - should be Kokō no Jōmon
 * Kikai no Jōmon - should be Kigai no Jōmon
 * Hoyoku no Jōmon - should be Hōyoku no Jōmon
 * Shiji no Saimon - should be Shijū no Saimon
 * Figured I'd drop them off here before I start any mass page moving.

Thanks for the data--and esp. for the easy-to-use links. And, yep, you seem to be correct on all of the above, if me eyes do not deceive me! :) Adam Restling (talk) 07:37, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Volume 61 Poem
Can I get a translation of the poem from volume 61 please. Raw to the right. Thanks, 11:55, December 4, 2013 (UTC)

Watashi ga / sekai ni ha kiken ga michite iru to shinji

sono kiken kara omae wo mamoritai to negau no ha

watashi no naka ni sono kiken to dōshitsu no shōdō ga aru kara ni / hoka naranai

which I think is supposed to be translated something like this:

"I / believing the world to be full of danger

have, as my wish, that I want to protect you from that danger,

because, within me, is an urge alike to that danger, / I cannot be otherwise"

I use the " / "s to mark the places where the preceding and succeeding text is divided by more than a normal space/division.

Aside from the usual confusion and trickiness of poems and Japanese, the main uncertainties for me are the elements kara ni and hoka naranai. The former would seem to combine kara "from, since" with the adverbializing particle ni, which seems to suggest that it's meant as a "because" linked to the final clause; but according to my dictionary, kara ni means "as soon as, no sooner than", so ???. Hoka naranai, that final clause I mentioned, would seem to mean something like "not (be) otherwise", from hoka "other" + naranai, presumably the negative form of naru "be(come), be of (the nature of)".

Despite these questions, my version could make sense, as "Zangetsu" (a.k.a. Yhwach the Friendly Ghost XD) saying "I wanted to protect you [Ichigo] from danger, because--and although--I find an urge [a Quincy's anti-Shinigami sentiment] within myself just like that danger; I can't do otherwise because this urge to protect is just as primal as the urge to endanger you"--and also the fact that even "Zangetsu" himself is a danger makes him even more determined to protect Ichigo. It would be no shock to find "Yhwach" being so schizophrenic. Adam Restling (talk) 08:22, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Mukyū Shunkō
Looking back at the archives, we never did get your officially endorsed translation for this one, lol. (無窮 瞬閧) Mohrpheus   (Talk)  03:15, December 5, 2013 (UTC)

Mukyū Shunkō (無窮瞬閧) means "tireless Shunkō"--that is, "tireless flash war-cry". 無窮 itself could be translated, more broadly, as "infinite, limitless", but the above is a bit more precise (if idiomatic) trans.--無 - 窮 "not - be destitute, suffer"--and those broader terms are, conversely, more precisely represented by words like mugen, kagirinai, etc. Adam Restling (talk) 08:36, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Kon being an Under-Pod?
Chapter 15, page 10.. Rukia mentions Kon being an Under-Pod type of Mod Soul. I'll put the raw here, what does it say about it on the panel where Kon jumps of the window? Can someone provide the correct translation, in order to mention it in the pages of Kon and Mod Soul? Kyoraku08 (talk) 17:10, December 6, 2013 (UTC)

It looks like she's saying that Kon "looks like a leg-function-specialized 'Underpod'-type".

By the way, in case we need it, here's the data for Underpod: 部下強化型 (アンダーポッド) Andāpoddo; the Kanji mean "lower part-strengthened form". Adam Restling (talk) 09:07, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Chapter 130
While looking through some older volume articles, I noticed that Chapter 130 in BEGINNING OF THE DEATH OF TOMORROW was originally released with a set of kanji for the name. Upon looking in the reference, it turns out we never actually got a translation for those kanji, so if someone could translate "超絶技巧練習曲 op.2[a tempo]", that'd be great.--Xilinoc (talk) 23:41, December 7, 2013 (UTC)

超絶技巧練習曲 (Chōzetsu Gikou Renshūkyoku) apparently means "etude of transcendent technique". Adam Restling (talk) 08:44, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Hiasobi, Benihime, Juzutsunagi
After looking on both the technique page and Urahara's own page, I've found that they possess two different translations for the above technique: Urahara's page has it rendered as "Crimson Princess That Plays with Fire, Strung Together like Rosary Beads", while the technique page has it rendered as "Fire-Playing, Crimson Princess, Beaded Mesh". The kanji for this technique is 火遊 紅姫 数珠繋, so if someone could give a definitive translation, that would be appreciated.--Xilinoc (talk) 04:19, December 10, 2013 (UTC)

I'd keep the 2nd one--or, rather, write it without the strange commas--and not just because it's the one I provided (? I think) XD; because that seems to be what the technique does, how its name is written (not having to switch things around for better cadence in English). The 1st one is interesting, but prosy (some kind of phrase instead of a term) and takes a few too many liberties so-doing in my opinion--for example, I translate Ryūjinjakka as "flowing blade- like flame" because the name actually includes the element jaku "like, similar (to)" (in ~ jak ka), but there's naught of that in Hiasobi Benihime Juzutsunagi. And while 数珠 is often translated "rosary", I thought that was an oddly Western-sounding trans., so I went with a more lit. "(kind of) bead(s)"; and the meaning of tsunagi "tie(s), knot(s)", I put as "mesh" (< "a bunch of tied links").

If tweaks are desired to be made based on the additional information etc I've included above, I guess they can be hammered out further in the Corner. Adam Restling (talk) 09:32, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Tres Cifras
This is a bit more complicated than the above. In addition to having different translations for Tres Cifras, Las Noches and Privaron Espada appears to have different kanji for it as well: Las Noches has it listed as while the Privaron Espada subsection has it listed as, which is made even more confusing by the fact that Zhenyoq added it, presumably from one of his raws. So, if some sort of consensus could be reached on the matter, I'd greatly appreciate it.--Xilinoc (talk) 04:19, December 10, 2013 (UTC)
 * In chapter 250 Gin calls the place〝３ケタ〟（トレス・シフラス） の巣, "Tres Cifras' Nest" (３ケタ = 三桁). Is it stated anywhere that Tres Cifras is the name of the place, not another name for Privaron Espada?
 * (Or maybe kanji was changed in subsequent chapters?)
 * By the way, "Three Figures" is kinda Kubo's translation (Ch250 "Five Ways To Three Figures"). — ЖенёqSig.png 14:28, December 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, he uses the kanji you posted on this page, but it seems the term is also mentioned in the volume summary, though I can't find it for the life of me.--Xilinoc (talk) 19:05, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

The Japanese Wiki seems only to have the form 3ケタ （トレス・シフラス）; Googling "三桁の巣 (トレス・シフラス)" and variants turns up several results, but it makes me wonder if someone just mistook/misinterpreted what Ichimaru was saying in ch. 250, and it was endlessly copied across the web (as often happens, esp. with Wiki data) without further thought to its veracity. Another apparent case in point is that Zhenyoq looks to be right: according to the Japanese Wiki, Tres Cifras (3ケタ （トレス・シフラス）) is a nickname by which the Privaron Espada are also called, rather than the name of their dwelling place. This dwelling is then, it seems, what Ichimaru informally refers to as "the nest of the 'Tres Cifras' ".

Tōsen, in relating that "The 'three-digit number' is a token of 'divestment'. It signifies one divested of their rank. That is, holders of three-digit numbers are, all, 'Privaron Espada'.", uses 3/三桁 "three-digit" only in the phrases "three-digit number(s)" (3/三桁の数字) in ch. 250.

Anyone know of other chs./pgs. & their links where we might find other-Kanji'd references to the Cifras? Adam Restling (talk) 10:16, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

More Quincy stuff
I keep finding Quincy-related things to be translated, it's like some sort of helpful curse.

Anyhow, I've found 3 more terms that I'd like to be translated properly. The first of these terms is Reishi Armor, which is mentioned here in the leftmost speech bubble of the all-black panel and appears to simply be kanji with kana clarifying its pronunciation, though an "official" translation would be nice for something like this. The second is the Kaiser Gesang, which I am legitimately surprised we did not ask for earlier. Yhwach mentions it on the bottom left panel here, and it appears to be the kanji/kana within the half-brackets. I'm betting there's a German and Japanese meaning to this one as well. The third is anime-exclusive, but has conflicting translations on the site: the Quincy Bangle. Its kanji (don't know where it was gotten from) is 装身具 (Sōshingu) and translated on the Quincy page as "Accessory", yet is translated on its own page as...well...the Quincy Bangle, so an "official" translation would be very helpful. I suppose that while we're at it, a look-over for "Soul-Synthesized Silver" (霊化銀, Reika Gin) and "Soul-Synthesized Glass" (霊化硝子, Reika Gurasu) would be beneficial, so make that 5 terms.

I realize now that the above is probably very messy, so here's a much tidier list of the translations I'm requesting:
 * Reishi Armor (kanji and kana can be found here in the leftmost text bubble of the completely black panel)
 * Kaiser Gesang (kanji and kana can be found here on the bottom left panel)

Thank you very much in advance.--Xilinoc (talk) 04:19, December 10, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks some more for the links etc.

霊子兵装 (reishi heisō) are the Kanji for "reishi war-garb" (not the common word for "armor", yoroi), which may be just a descriptive term rather than a "name" proper.

Kaiser Gesang (聖帝頌歌 (カイザー・ゲザング) Kaizā Gezangu), Japanese for "praise-song of the sacred emperor", German for "emperor song".

Sōshingu (装身具) is just a commonplace word for "accessory(/ies), (body) ornament(s)"--broken down, the Kanji mean something like "body-dressing element(s)"; it doesn't have anything to do with Quincy inclusively. Does anyone have a ch. link/reference to a term * Quincy Bangle?

Whelp, 霊化銀 (Reika gin) and 霊化硝子 (Reika ga rasu, not  gu rasu) do mean "soul-made silver" and "soul-made glass" respectively--although you could just as accurately translate the first part of both compounds as " 'soulified' " or " 'spiritualized' ". Adam Restling (talk) 10:53, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Mask's Glorious Techniques
So, we've gotten 3 new techniques out of Mask in chapter 561, and I'd like some verification on their names.
 * First up is Star Eagle Kick, whose kana can be found here.


 * Next up is Star Headbutt, whose kana can be found here.


 * Finally, we have the glorious Star Flash, whose kana can be found here.

Thanks in advance.--Xilinoc (talk) 16:18, December 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * — ЖенёqSig.png 09:25, December 16, 2013 (UTC)
 * — ЖенёqSig.png 09:25, December 16, 2013 (UTC)
 * — ЖенёqSig.png 09:25, December 16, 2013 (UTC)


 * — or we do not translate Japanese words?
 * — ЖенёqSig.png 16:10, December 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * — ЖенёqSig.png 16:10, December 17, 2013 (UTC)

Rose's Artsy-Fartsy Techniques
Accompanying Rose's Bankai, we've got three new techniques for him as well, with romanized names and underlying kanji.
 * First up is Sea Drift, whose kana and kanji can be found here.


 * Next up is Prometheus, whose kana and kanji can be found here.


 * Finally, we have Ein Heldenleben, whose kana and kanji can be found here.

Thanks in advance.--Xilinoc (talk) 16:18, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks again for the links etc.

Sea Drift (海流 (シー ・ ドリフト) Shī Dorifuto); Kanji mean the same (specifically, in addition to "course, current", 流 can mean "flow, drift, float(ing)", and even "style" (< "course of action")).

Prometheus (火山の使者 (プロメテウス) Purometeusu): the name, of course, references the famed Titan of Greek mythology; the Kanji mean "envoy of the volcano"--presumably a weird reference to his bringing the gift of fire to Man, or a confusion of him with Hephaestus/Vulcan.

Ein Heldenleben (英雄の生涯 (アイン ・ ヘルデンレーベン) Ain Herudenrēben); both mean about the same--"hero's life"--although the German adds ein "one; a, an", and 生涯 is generally a more specific "(entire) life, lifetime, lifespan" (< "life" + "horizon, shore"). Adam Restling (talk) 07:32, December 18, 2013 (UTC)

Niño
While looking through some volume raws, I found something interesting. It seems that though Dordoni's favorite word, Niño, is listed as having the underlying kanji of 坊や, his first usage of the word has different underlying kanji: I'm no good at posting kana/kanji, so here's a link for proof, with the term in question being in the bottom-left speech bubble of the second panel. If someone could translate that and give a verdict on which one we should use, that'd be great.--Xilinoc (talk) 19:05, December 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks to me like the speech bubble in question isn't even using Kanji, it just says ほうや (hōya) in Hiragana.....
 * It's ぼうや (bōya) and it's just 坊や written with kana. — ЖенёqSig.png 09:16, December 16, 2013 (UTC)

Like Zhenyoq said: ぼうや (坊や) bōya is just a rarer Japanese word for "boy", translating Spanish niño of the same meaning. Adam Restling (talk) 11:03, December 18, 2013 (UTC)