Does anyone know where there is a list for the name translations?
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Mar 8, 2005 8:45 pm GMT
Ok, I was reading a version of Romance of the three kingdoms, but the names were a different translation then they are in the game. At one point I did see a site with a list saying who is who in each translation but I can't find that site no matter how hard I look. Does anyone know some place that has the translation?
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Mar 8, 2005 9:05 pm GMT
You mean like Ts'ao Ts'ao instead of Cao Cao? Or Sou Sou instead of Cao Cao? If it's the first, you're reading a Wade-Gilles romanised text. Here's a conversion table:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/ctable2.htm
If it's the second, you're reading a romanisation of the Japanese pronunciations.. and I can't help you.
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Mar 8, 2005 10:14 pm GMT
yay ^_^
That's exactly what I'm looking for, might even be the same list I saw a while back. I just need to go from wade-giles to pinyin because the version I'm reading is in wade-giles, but DoaE and just about everything else uses pinyin.
Thanks!
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Apr 5, 2005 11:01 pm GMT
http://www.kongming.net is your god when it comes to ANYTHING RoTK (DoaE, RoTK games by Koei, and a bounty of other cool stuff to check out.) If you're big into RoTK Era, you can spend hours on this site!
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May 7, 2005 1:39 am GMT
*waves hello to everyone* ^.^/
I'm happy to have found this board. Destiny of an Emperor is my favourite game for the NES. ^.^
If anyone is interested in more discussion of the Three Kingdoms setting, there is some on the boards for Koei's various Romance of the Three Kingdoms games:
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=588628
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=588629
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=588631
and others.
This question about unfamiliar-looking names such as Ts'ao Ts'ao and Tung Cho sometimes arises there, and when it does I've posted the same link as Boco47 mentioned here.
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Jun 7, 2005 1:26 am GMT
Just a save ^.^
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Jul 8, 2005 1:25 am GMT
Saving, especially for when this question comes up again on one or more of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms boards, so I can just direct them here (or cut and paste)....
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Jul 24, 2005 1:45 pm GMT
name translations? you mean like Guan Yu = John Phillips? Ive never heard of name translations..
Aug 22, 2005 1:52 am GMT
I vaguely remember hearing about a translated version (of the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in which something similar to what MeteorStrike mentioned was done. ^.^;;
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Sep 15, 2005 3:01 pm GMT
I suppose if you could figure out what thier names mean in Chinese, you could find a name in English that has the same (or a similar) meaning, then convert it to that. http://www.babynames.com and http://www.behindthename.com both have lists of names and thier meanings, though the latter is more in-depth. This is something I'd like to do just for thehell of it, though I wouldn't know where to begin finding out what thier Chinese names mean.
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Oct 6, 2005 1:52 am GMT
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Oct 6, 2005 2:47 am GMT
I found some Chinese-English dictionaries that might be of interest ^.^
http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html
http://www.mandarintools.com/
http://dictionary.kaide.net/mainsearchform.htm?Submit=Start+Chinese+English+Dictionary
http://dictionary.kaide.net/
And a humorous site, about kanji tattoos and poor judgement regarding them:
- caution, possibly offensive -
http://www.hanzismatter.com/
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Oct 26, 2005 1:35 am GMT
*happy* ^.^
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Nov 16, 2005 2:47 am GMT
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Dec 7, 2005 2:43 am GMT
*starting to feel lonely* ;.;
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Dec 28, 2005 2:50 am GMT
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Jan 18, 2006 2:55 am GMT
Saving ^.^
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Feb 8, 2006 2:48 am GMT
No purge please ;.;
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Feb 22, 2006 5:29 pm GMT
boo to purges?
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Mar 15, 2006 2:55 am GMT
Thank you DW4ever <(^.^<
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