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.

Haschwalth Stern Ritter's Grandmaster Title
I am not sure about my interpretation of his title of Stern Ritter's Grandmaster, but as far as I see from raw it goes like : 星十字騎士団 (シュテルンリッター) Shuterunrittā, [最高位], Saikōi [グランドマスター] Gurandomasutā) which Kanji literally means a : pride of place;  most prominent;  top-ranking, and as "Emperor's Advisor" 補佐 (Hosa) and it literally means : aid;  help;  assistance;  assistant;  counselor;  counsellor;  adviser;  advisor, and I leave it to You Guys, officially working in Translation Corner to decide how to properly spell his titles. here I put link to raws if would be needed to verification. Have a nice day Guys ;) Mad6 (talk) 13:11, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks to Mad for the data; checking the raw, the Kanji do seem correct: 星十字騎士団最高位 (シュテルンリッター・グランドマスター) Shuterunrittā Gurandomasutā, with the intended rendering being Sternritter Grandmaster, and those underlying Kanji meaning "highest-ranked of the band of star-cross knights". Saikoui (最高位) combines the superlative prefix sai- "most, ~est" with koui, lit. "high rank, high order"; sic. saikoui is "(that of the) most high rank/order" > "(that which/one who is) highest-ranked". Saikou itself is also often found as its own word in the sense "highest, most high". Association and usage interchangeable with hosa is doubtless due to this rank (imperial aide etc) being (one of) the highest in historic hierarchies. Adam Restling (talk) 11:48, September 19, 2013 (UTC)

Bazz-B's Ephitet and other stuff from chapter 548
I just got the raw of the latest chapter and I want to make sure that it's according to it, the Bazz-B epithet is "The Heat" 灼熱 (ザ·ヒート) Shakunetsu (Za Hīto) which Kanji literally means Scorching Heat. Rangiku's seemingly new technique a Haineko House goes like this "灰猫 ハウス" and Hitsugaya's new combination with Rangiku's Haineko a Multilayer Vacuum Ice Wall "真空多層氷壁" (Shinkū Tasō Hyōheki) and Vacuum Ice Blade "真空の氷の刃" (Shinkū no Kōri no Yaiba). As page with Bazz-B is protected, I can't put it on page and leave the rest to You.

Thanks again to Mad for the great help re: the Kanji et al. Indeed, the Kanji for Bazz's moniker does seem to be 灼熱 (usually read shakunetsu, as cited above), "scorching heat, incandescence", a compound of 灼 "miraculous" + 熱 "heat, fever; (figurative) passion", sic. "miraculous (amount of) heat" > "heat of stunning magnitude" > "scorching heat, red-hot, fierce-burning brightness". Thus, we have "The Heat" (灼熱 (ザ・ヒート) Za Hīto), with the underlying Kanji translating to "scorching heat". It may also be worth noting that Bazz prefaces this with 星十字騎士団"H" (シュテルンリッターエイチ Shuterunrittā Eichi), though maybe that's just me ;) ; I'm guessing that Kubo rendered "H" as eichi to avoid associations with the usual ecchi XD.

Yep, "Haineko House" (whether that's the technique name, or just her saying "Haineko, (form a) house!" is, natch, still unclear) is pretty straightfoward (as Mad said): 灰猫 ハウス Haineko Hausu.

With the kennings for Hitsugaya's new techniques, same thing--not certain whether they're "official" terms or descriptive ones (e.g. if someone said "I'm going to cut you with this red blade", it doesn't mean the technique is called "Red Blade")--but these seem to lean towards the latter (see further in the following). But, yep, we got those cited above: 真空多層氷壁 shinkuu tasou hyouheki "hollow manifold/multilayer ice-wall(s)"; 真空の氷の刃 shinkuu no koori no yaiba "hollow ice blade"; 真空氷壁 shinkuu hyouheki "hollow ice-walls"; and various other descriptions of such things. Adam Restling (talk) 12:32, September 19, 2013 (UTC)

Kosō Renbu
Hey, would someone mind translating Kosō Renbu, one of the techniques of Matsuri Kudō's Zanpakutō? Here's the kanji for it 虎陶円舞 --Xilinoc (talk) 00:36, August 31, 2013 (UTC)

While this is here, I realized Fujimaru's equivalent of the ability, Ryū Tenzoshu (Kanji - 竜天蒼瞬), is also lacking a translation. The Kanji of the remaining four abilities (when a different type is chosen: Iryu Shoshei, Ryutei Senkoku, Moko Koho, and Muge Tsurure), are also missing, so those might be needed.
 * Someone put a wrong romanization of last 2 Kanji of this technique 虎陶円舞. "円舞" don't means Renbu, but "Enbu" which literally means a "Circle Dance", and 虎陶 which translates to Kosō, literally means Porcelain Tiger; Ryū Tenzoshu (竜天蒼瞬) literally translates to : Heavenly Pale/Azure Dragon Blink but I'm not sure. Unfortunately I don't have a kanji for a 4 last techniques. Mad6 (talk) 14:26, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Chief source for "confirmation"/research: the Japanese Wiki, always assuming they got it right, either XD.

"Kosō Renbu" (虎陶円舞) should be Kotō Enbu (虎淘円舞), using the same first two Kanji (虎淘) as the name of her Zanpakutou, and meaning "tiger-cull circle dance"; enbu (円舞, "circle, circular, round" + "dance, flit"), it seems, is also often used to refer to the waltz (just a bit of useless trivia/FYI XD).

"Ryū Tenzoshu" should be Ryūten Sōshun (竜天蒼瞬), which means "blue flash of dragon heaven".

As for these other techniques, I'm not sure--they seem not to appear in the Japanese Wiki; the closest I could come were some TENTATIVE & UNCONFIRMED ones on a specialized Japanese (fan?) wiki, which furnished (for Fujimaru) *飛竜翔粋 *Hiryū Shōsui "soaring essence of the flying dragon", and *竜帝篆刻 *Ryūtei Tenkoku "seal engraving of the dragon sire/emperor"; and (for Matsuri) *王虎咆哮 *Ōko Hōkō "roar of the royal tiger" or maybe *陶虎咆哮 (read: *淘虎咆哮???) *Tōko Hōkō "roar of the porcelain/pottery (read: culling???) tiger". But even they [the page author] seems to be uncertain if these names are correct, following their entries with ? marks--perhaps they were trying to guess the Kanji by ear/from memory/whatever, like us all. So I dunno ... Adam Restling (talk) 13:48, September 19, 2013 (UTC)

Special War Powers
Alright, I looked through the archives and found that the term "Special War Power" was discussed here. In said discussion, Adam said that he wasn't quite sure how to put all of the kanji together at that point. Now, the term we currently use is the one which was used in the speedscans of the chapters it was mentioned in, and as we know, those can be...unreliable, to put it lightly. Hence, my request is this: could you take another look at the kanji and determine a definite term, Adam?

Here's the kanji for reference: 特記戦力

--Xilinoc (talk) 22:28, September 30, 2013 (UTC)