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.

Isshin's Zanpakuto Release Command
We are getting the the release command as "Burn". We still need kanji and of course accurate translation.--


 * Engetsu's release command is 燃えろ (moero) - Burn, Fire up --B14 (talk) 12:23, March 29, 2013 (UTC)

Looks like B14 has got it right: "burn" (intransitive) (燃えろ moero). Adam Restling (talk) 11:50, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

Kaidou
What is the official translation/romanization for this term? I'd assume it is similar to the other two, but we just need to make sure. Mohrpheus  (Talk)  03:02, March 1, 2013 (UTC)
 * There is a footnote on the page, . I'm not sure what kaidō means, maybe something like "roundabout way". — ЖенёqSig.png 08:10, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

The above looks correct. It seems that Kaidō (回道) means "turn way"; the footnote seems to mean "Kidō used for treatment/cure". Adam Restling (talk) 12:03, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

Gemischt and Echt
We have new quincy related words in the newest chapter (531). We have a general understanding of these words. Pure and Hybrid or mix breed but we need kanji and accurate translation per usual.--
 * 混血統 （ゲミシュト, gemishuto）
 * 純血統滅却師 （エヒト・クインシー, ehito kuinshī）
 * 混血 means "mixed-blooded" and 純血 means "pure-blooded", not sure about the third hieroglyph. — ЖенёqSig.png 20:41, March 29, 2013 (UTC)

統 means "kin, lineage, relation(ship)".

Thus, we have Gemischt (混血統 （ゲミシュト) Gemishuto）--Japanese for "mixed bloodlined", German for "mixed"--as opposed to Echt (純血統 （エヒト) Ehito)--Japanese for "pure bloodlined", German for "true, genuine"-- "castes" of Quincy. Adam Restling (talk) 11:44, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

Houzankenbu
I came across this term while editing Tatsufusa Enjōji's page, while reading Chapter 105 of the manga (on page 14 to be precise). Mangapanda's translation of this term was "Dance of Blade Avalanche", but I wanted to check with you guys before putting anything on the wiki concerning this technique. 04:32,4/12/2013 04:32, April 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * 崩山剣舞 (ほうざんけんぶ) (from raws) — ЖенёqSig.png 07:57, April 12, 2013 (UTC)

The poet in me would render Hōzan Kenbu, based on order and apparent semantic intent, as "fallen-mount sword dance", or "sword dance of mountain-fall; "avalanche" seems to be, more properly, nadare (雪崩), more lit. "snow-fall, falling snow"--崩 is generally "fall/fell" in the sense of "(make) collapse/fall down (into ruin)". Thanks for the raw data Kanji :). Adam Restling (talk) 02:02, April 13, 2013 (UTC)

"White" and "Soul Suicide"
Since it doesn't seem to've been brought up yet, I wanted to give the Kanji and some commentary about some of the things in the recent "Everything but the Rain" chapters--only really two things ... for now. XD

The first is the weird "Hollowgami" that Isshin and Masaki fight, named White (ホワイト Howaito); this is a phonetic adaptation of English white, with the initial how- of the katakana meant to approximate the voiceless [hw-] sound that begins the word in those English dialects where this hasn't become a simple [w-].

The second is "Soul Suicide" (魂魄自殺 Konpaku Jisatsu); it should prob. be noted that it usu. appears in quotation marks, as if a more informal than "official" term. This is described as resulting from when the (forced) Hollowfaction of a soul progresses from not only the "destruction of the boundaries between the original and Hollow souls" but the "destruction of the boundaries between the soul itself and the external world", and "the soul, independent of (read: against) its own will, self-destructs"--sounds almost like the savaged soul loses its cohesion as an independent, singular entity separate from the rest of the world and does a kind of matter-antimatter counter-extinction.

Might add some more tidbits if it seems apt; I'm sure if there are more terms I may've forgotten at the moment. Adam Restling (talk) 11:55, May 9, 2013 (UTC)

Sōeigeki
In Kidō/Appearance In Other Media there is no kanji or translation for an ability listed as "Soigeki" in the game Bleach: The 3rd Phantom. Reading a guide for the game, the kidō is named 蒼霙撃 Sōeigeki, which translates to "blue sleet attack". The name is listed on at. Would this be all right for me to add? Rabukurafuto (talk) 14:56, May 9, 2013 (UTC)

Volume 58 poem
魂 燃え立つ (kokoro moetatsu) 天の降るとも (ame no furu tomo)

Scan — talk 00:21, March 5, 2013 (UTC)

Poems are always trickier, esp. if they use elastic and idiomatic elements with a number of possible meanings, as here; but my crack at translating the above goes like this:

"The soul burns up / though heaven falls"

Although, as Bleach Asylum's Chronus notes, the rare readings may intimate additional meanings/nuances were intended, though these are not confirmed: 魂 "soul" (when this = "one's identity, spirit", rather than one's animating life-force) is given the intended reading kokoro, which is properly "heart" (when this, too, is conceived as the spiritual rather than the physical organ); and 天 "heaven" is given the rarer reading ame, which is homophonous to the word for "rain"--and this could tie in well with 降る furu, "fall, descend", since this often used of rain- or snow-fall.

Thus, the idea of Chronus that a *wink wink* reference to Yamamoto (the "blazing heart") and Ichigo (whose duress causes rain to fall in his Zanpakutou's inner world) is hidden in the poem, too, seems plausible. Just FYI :). Now that I think on it, it may just be a reference to that fact that after Yamamoto "burns up" (uses his Bankai), all the moisture it'd evaporated in the Soul Society becomes a downpour of rain ("heaven falls") before the real Yhwach appears.

The word tomo is especially confounding as, amongst its possible meanings, are "(even) if"; "(al)though"; or just use for emphasis. Adam Restling (talk) 10:31, April 8, 2013 (UTC)