naruto names

[010577]

i can't say i've watched too much anime, but i've seen enough to think that as a chinese, since our written language is similar to the kanji of the japanese, that naruto names are really hard to pronounce and just don't sound good compared to all the other animes i've watched... the character's names are either complex (as in the words are a bit harder than usual) and doesn't have the right ring to it...

i've watched flame of recca, saint seiya, yuuyuu, and a whole bunch of other stuff in chinese so this one is a shocker

[Assertn]

i seee........

[Mut]

no, i don't seee........

[jing]

they aren't hard to pronounce.

[Rek]

stupid slope.... learn how to speak, aiight?

[PSJ]

ehmm what exactly do you mean? are you saying it like it would be in chinese?

[Sam98034]

Ok I'll try to help.

Naruto:
think of a pirate saying "ARRRR", now ad an "N" at the begining and we get "NARRR"
think of the planet "Pluto" but leave out the "PL" and we get "Uto"
ad those two together and we get "NARRRUto"

Kakashi:
Think of the word "Kaka" spanish for poop.
Now think of the improper noun of a female "She"
Add them up and you get "KakaShe" (hm...kakashi=shit+girl....so japanese)

Sasuke:
Think of ketchup "Sauce"
and the short form of okay, "K"
put them together and you get "SauceK"

Sakura:
Think of the word "Saw"
Then ad "Tempura" to it without the "Temp" and ad a "K" at the begining.
you get "SawKura"

Rock Lee:
Think of a Rock
Think of a pare of Lee jeans

Neiji:
Think about a council voting against something, "all opposed say Nay" That's the "Nay" you want.
Add 50 cents "G-unit" without the unit part.
you get "NayG"

Thats should help a little I guess.

[jing]

Originally posted by: Sam98034
Ok I'll try to help.

Naruto:
think of a pirate saying "ARRRR", now ad an "N" at the begining and we get "NARRR"
think of the planet "Pluto" but leave out the "PL" and we get "Uto"
ad those two together and we get "NARRRUto"

Kakashi:
Think of the word "Kaka" spanish for poop.
Now think of the improper noun of a female "She"
Add them up and you get "KakaShe" (hm...kakashi=shit+girl....so japanese)

Sasuke:
Think of ketchup "Sauce"
and the short form of okay, "K"
put them together and you get "SauceK"

Sakura:
Think of the word "Saw"
Then ad "Tempura" to it without the "Temp" and ad a "K" at the begining.
you get "SawKura"

Rock Lee:
Think of a Rock
Think of a pare of Lee jeans

Neiji:
Think about a council voting against something, "all opposed say Nay" That's the "Nay" you want.
Add 50 cents "G-unit" without the unit part.
you get "NayG"

Thats should help a little I guess.


why do i have a feeling that you're making fun of her.

[Sam98034]

Originally posted by: jing


Originally posted by: Sam98034
Ok I'll try to help.

Naruto:
think of a pirate saying "ARRRR", now ad an "N" at the begining and we get "NARRR"
think of the planet "Pluto" but leave out the "PL" and we get "Uto"
ad those two together and we get "NARRRUto"

Kakashi:
Think of the word "Kaka" spanish for poop.
Now think of the improper noun of a female "She"
Add them up and you get "KakaShe" (hm...kakashi=shit+girl....so japanese)

Sasuke:
Think of ketchup "Sauce"
and the short form of okay, "K"
put them together and you get "SauceK"

Sakura:
Think of the word "Saw"
Then ad "Tempura" to it without the "Temp" and ad a "K" at the begining.
you get "SawKura"

Rock Lee:
Think of a Rock
Think of a pare of Lee jeans

Neiji:
Think about a council voting against something, "all opposed say Nay" That's the "Nay" you want.
Add 50 cents "G-unit" without the unit part.
you get "NayG"

Thats should help a little I guess.


why do i have a feeling that you're making fun of her.

Because you can't understand why I would take my time to help her? And it's a her? I mean, she's a her?

[Assertn]

my professor is in nashville right now, working on some music vids for 50 cent's crew

[Souryusen]

Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
my professor is in nashville right now, working on some music vids for 50 cent's crew

Did I tell you about that one time I made a nun bleed? Trust me, it was awesome.

[Assertn]

lol, wtf souryusen, are you trying to imply something?

[ShinobiNeko]

One reason you might be thinking that way might be because a lot of them don't have names that would normally be given to people , like Naruto, Neji, Kakashi, Chouji etc. And I think that's because Kishimoto was influenced by Dragonball, which the characters had their names after foods and what not, and you can see from Naruto that the characters names are words rather then names i.e. neji ->screw| kakashi-> scarecrow| kiba->fang

[Kenshiro]

Seeing as you brought up the old Dragonball Vs Naruto thing, and we are talking about names.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but....

In original dragonball there is a weird monster that is like a wild boar, with antler horns, and butterfly wings.

Its name?

Ino-Shika-Cho

[Deblas]

geez, whats the big deal. their just names. their not hard to pronounce either. just listen their names in the anime and their you go

[Board of Command]

I'm Chinese and I find these names pretty simple. In fact, most other anime have much longer names, for example: guy from Tenjou Tenge is named Takayanagi. Usually characters have long names like that. Naruto is pretty simple. The only other anime that has easier names than Naruto is Scrapped Princess. They gave them all English names, but totally butchered the pronounciation. You know, the typical Jap-English pronounciation.

[010577]

sorry but i don't think non- Chinese reading peeps would understand

yes, naruto, kakashi etc. sounds very normal ... but in characters pronounced in chinese they are sort of wierd in chinese...

for example, naruto = ?€ which is really wierd and doesn't sound cool


edit: for some reason gotwoot does not have the right encoding to write chinese

[Psyke]

Originally posted by: 010577
i can't say i've watched too much anime, but i've seen enough to think that as a chinese, since our written language is similar to the kanji of the japanese, that naruto names are really hard to pronounce and just don't sound good compared to all the other animes i've watched... the character's names are either complex (as in the words are a bit harder than usual) and doesn't have the right ring to it...

i've watched flame of recca, saint seiya, yuuyuu, and a whole bunch of other stuff in chinese so this one is a shocker

Are u talking about the Jap names or the Chinese names given to the characters in the Chinese manga? If u are talking about the chinese manga, the translater who did the translations did not give everyone in Naruto their kanji names. Some of the characters' do NOT have kanji names, and would sound stupid if given a direct translation based on how the name sound. Very good example is Naruto. Other characters who do not have kanji names have at least a cooler name based on how it sounds, so the chinese manga uses chinese characters based on how the name is pronounced. Example: Kakashi.

Kanji name
Naruto -> Ming Ren (based on direct Kanji)
Sakura chan-> Xiao Yin (Yin = Sakura)

Non kanji name (hiragana)
Kakashi -> Ka ka xi (based on sound)

[Sam98034]

Originally posted by: ShinobiNeko
i.e. neji ->screw| kakashi-> scarecrow| kiba->fang

i stand by kakashi meaning shit girl. to each his own.

[PSJ]

Originally posted by: Kenshiro
Seeing as you brought up the old Dragonball Vs Naruto thing, and we are talking about names.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but....

In original dragonball there is a weird monster that is like a wild boar, with antler horns, and butterfly wings.

Its name?

Ino-Shika-Cho

wiw post a pic of that thing please if you got one cant remember that thing.

[Board of Command]

Oh I thought you're talking about the Japanese pronounciation. Well I never watch stuff in Chinese so I wouldn't know.

[Death BOO Z]

I don't have a picture of the inoshikachou creture from Dragon Ball, but i recall him being in episodes of 81 - 83, which is when goku meets tien and chouzu using the boar to scum money away of some hillbillies,,, and then they all eat corn together....

of course, it's a filler thing, so don't expect to find it in the manga....


would you believe that i watched that part of Dragon ball about two years ago?

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