Bleach Wiki:Translation Corner

The Translation Corner is a group of Bleach Wiki users who the task to translate 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 are 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)

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.

Soul King Palace Residents
These are the names we have so far: That ほいさっとォ　is not a name, just an exclamation. So that "Sato" is not named yet. — talk 05:53, June 9, 2013 (UTC)

Cang Du
Apparently this guy has both kana and Chinese characters given for his name. Not entirely sure if they are correct, but these are what someone tried to put in: 蒼都 (ツアン·トウ)

Here's the relevant RAW. -- Mohrpheus  (Talk)  07:12, July 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ack, doesn't allow hotlinking. Mohrpheus   (Talk)  01:41, July 2, 2013 (UTC)

Cang Du (蒼都) seems to tap good old Mandarin Chinese, whence the superscript (furigana) katakana reading Tsan Tu (ツァン·トゥ), approximating the Mandarin pronunciation [tsʰang tu]--the Japanese pronunciation of the Kanji would be Sou To or the like. Note the small ァ (a) and ゥ (u), compared to the approximations above.

Because of the interpunct ( • ) between them, it's probable, in that ol' Eastern order, that Cang is his surname, and Du his given name (whether this ever comes up is uncertain ;) ). 都 can mean "capitol, metropolis"; "(the) all, whole" (? < "capital amount")"; or "fine, elegant" (? < "metropolitan"). 蒼 is "blue" or "pale" again (it turns up here and there in other BLEACH names/terms). Adam Restling (talk) 05:28, July 8, 2013 (UTC)

Quilge Opie
Can we please get verification of this edit to the Quilge Opie page. Thanks, 10:24, July 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * According to the raw translation, "監獄" （ザ・ジェイル） Za Jeiru *should* be correct. The underlying Kanji (監獄 kangoku) do mean "prison, jail". Adam Restling (talk) 04:51, July 8, 2013 (UTC)

Schrift
Can someone please confirm this translation of, found on page 17 of chapter 543. Blackstar1 (talk) 22:49, July 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * That's what the raw says: Schrift (Shurifuto) *is* German for "script, (hand)writing"; and 聖文字 is 聖 "holy, sacred" + 文字 (moji) "letter/character (of the alphabet)".


 * Man, Kubo really needs more than just "holy" to stick in the names of all the Vandenreich: holy arrow, holy form, holy blood, holy letter ... holy crap XD. Adam Restling (talk) 05:11, July 8, 2013 (UTC)

Love/Rabu/Ravu
This is a pretty old issue, but it did not really seem to get resolved here. On Love's page, we currently have three different sets of characters for his name: 羅武 (Rabu), ラブ (Rabu), and ラヴ (Ravu). This is a bit unconventional, but could we get any confirmation on what his real name and nickname are? I'm getting the impression that Rabu (the kanji) is his real name, and that Love (the kana) is his nickname, but for as long as this has been floating around, I was hoping to get a better opinion. Mohrpheus  (Talk)  22:41, July 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * You may be right, Mohrpheus. I'm not sure how consistent it's stayed throughout the series (or where to find them across thousands of pages) (Kubo did things like change Aizen's first-person pronoun from boku to watashi, too): in the early Visored-involving chapter 217, his nickname "Love" (which prob. is a slangy form based on phonetic resemblance to his real name) is written as simply ラヴ (Ravu), with no underlying Kanji. However, in ch. 222 (when Love faces Hollowfied Ichigo in the latter's Hollowfaction training), Risa calls him by his real name Rabu (羅武 (ラブ)) ... and then both Hiyori and Mashiro call him Rabu (ラブ), with no underlying Kanji.


 * It may be, in line with your theory, that he's specifically called "Love" (Ravu) only by a few of them, like Rose; others, like Hiyori and Mashiro, perhaps to signify their more "informal" usage (compared to the "elegant" Rose), approximate this same "Love" as Rabu; and Risa is, in her way, even more formal than Rose, calling him "Rabu" (羅武 (ラブ)), his true name--although she does call Rose "Rose" (ローズ).


 * In conclusion, ??? XD. The above assessment is the best I can figure. Adam Restling (talk) 05:59, July 8, 2013 (UTC)

Choukaimon
What are the kanji for the portal Ouetsu used to send Ichigo to the Human World and back? RAW Mohrpheus   (Talk)  23:53, July 7, 2013 (UTC)


 * The Kanji for "Choukaimon" (which I guess should be spelled Chōkaimon on this site) *should* be "超界門" : chou, transcending, surpassing (thus also often used as the equivalent of English super~, e.g. in choujin "superman") + kai, world, realm + mon, gate. The translation "world-transcending gate" should be appropriate; and it is super, apparently going straight from the Kings-realm to the "Living" World without needing an Ouken or Kuukaku-blasting XD. Adam Restling (talk) 05:02, July 8, 2013 (UTC)

Episode 166 english title translation error?
Hey Adam, I found a possible error for the english translation of episode 166. The original Japanese text and Romaji is

`Shiryoku VS shiryoku! Horō-ka shita ichigo'

「死力ＶＳ死力！ホロウ化した一護」

Currently the english title is Desperate Effort vs. Desperate Effort! The Hollowized Ichigo

It should be hollowfied and my own rough translation have it as hollowfied not hollowized and all of my own japanese bleach books (specifically Masked) have the technique as Hollowfication. Can you confirm the translation? -- 19:38, June 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Hollowfied seems to be the most prevalent term/translation, and I think the one used on this site, so this change you've suggested makes sense.


 * Plus, I learned something here: "desperate effort" is written, in Japanese, as "death/deadly power" (死力)--quite the dramatic interpretation. :) Adam Restling (talk) 09:16, June 24, 2013 (UTC)

Name Nimaiya uses to refer to the new Zangetsu
This was brought to my attention by BlackQuimera08 in chat today. Apparently, when Nimaiya asks Ichigo if his new Zanpakutō feels right, he refers to Zangetsu with 斬月, which are its kanji, but that's not the odd part. Right next to it, there are the katakana ざんがつ or Zangatsu, which, according to Quimera, means "The Remaining Two". Now, I'm not sure if this has been commonly used by Kubo for a long time now or if it's new, and I'm not sure if the katakana really means "The Remaining Two", so I'd appreciate it if Adam could give his input on it. A picture of the most recent usage is to the right, and this is it being used in Chapter 539.--Xilinoc (talk) 02:22, June 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * He says not ざんがつ (Zangatsu) but ざんげつ (Zangetsu). You can see that on the both pages. — ЖенёqSig.png 14:02, June 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * So he's essentially just saying Zangetsu twice? I suppose that makes sense. Thanks for the help.--Xilinoc (talk) 14:35, June 22, 2013 (UTC)

The raw passage is just this (as Zhenyoq was talking about):

斬月 たちと

Zangetsu [the normal spelling as the furigana ざんげつ indicate] -with

"with [those]  Zangetsus"

The pronunciation zangatsu didn't appear. This Quimera fellow's interpretation seems, after mistaking ~getsu for ~gatsu, to be based on a homophonous element 残 "lingering, remaining" (which also appears in  Zan ka no Tachi; there's also another word zangetsu [残月], "moon lingering [in visibility from night into morning]", separate from Ichigo's, which means "slaying moon") + ga, maybe a mistake for the subject particle (?) + tsu, perhaps mistaken for tsū, a phonetic adaptation of English two (?).

Katakana don't usually mean anything (being phonetic and not semantic graphs, like Kanji are) beyond indicating the intended reading of the Kanji they describe.

In summation, the above raw page simply contains "Zangetsu" (斬月, the usual spelling/name) + tachi (たち "attached, et cetera", used as a pluralizing suffix to indicate that there are now more than one Zangetsu) + to ("and, with", since Japanese "pre"positions are often post-positions). As cited above, these combine with Nimaiya's lead-in from the other page to give SonoZangetsutachi to which, rearranged into English grammatical order, gives "With-those Zangetsu s ." Adam Restling (talk) 07:39, June 24, 2013 (UTC)