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    Eine weitere romantisierte Karte von China mit wörtlichen englischen Übersetzungen …


    Fühlt sich sehr nach Westeros an … einige der Übersetzungen sind romantisiert.

    Ich denke darüber nach, Guangxi und Guangdong zu kombinieren, um Great Plains zu bilden. Mt. Taihang kann Sky-Row Peaks sein.

    Kann zu einer stilisierten Fantasy-Karte werden.

    Von MerRyanSG

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    1. __Se7en__ on

      Thanks for sharing – I’d just like to point out a glaring inaccuracy in the translation of Xizang (Tibet) into ‘Western Storehouse’.

      Zang (or Tsang, depending on romanisation) when used in a geographical context (pronounced zàng) refers to the region or people of Xizang / Tibet; when used as a verb (pronounced cáng) it means to store.

    2. LeaderThren on

      Chinese naming styles can feel very cool and fantasy like. There’s a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant(that also offers halal food with meat interestingly) which translates to Green Willow’s Rest

      But for locations these meanings are mostly far-fetched: Some are combinations of two ancient single-character locations (Jiangsu= Su-zhou+Jiang-nin), some others are from non-chinese languages (Jilin – girin ula[Along the river in Manchu]), (Xizang – Xi[Chinese for western]-gtsang[One part of the Tibetan Bod] ).

    4. thebaker66 on

      Wouldn’t mind a visit to the ‚Auspicious Forest‘, maybe some leaves falling on you brings you prosperity?

      It got me thinking I only ever really see the word Auspicious used when I’m watching or reading something about China and a quick google search confirmed my suspicions of it being a cultural thing.

    5. sloth_eggs on

      I would say the word you’re looking for is „romanization“ or „romanisation“, but you’re literally just translating the characters.

    6. Cormetz on

      From the little I’ve learned, this is somewhat inaccurate. For instance Hunan wouldn’t be „Lake South“, but „south of the lake“. Similarly Hainan would be „south of the sea“ not „south sea“ and Beijing would be „northern capital“. Essentially if the adjective comes before the noun it is like in English, but if after the noun it is „of the“. Bei being north, nan being south.

    8. IoIoIoYoIoIoI on

      Even though the difference between blue and green and in some cases even yellow is fairly recent, no longer than 2500 years old, and in some languages still not clearly delineated, the word „qing“ in „Qinghai“ is much more usually met in reference to things green than azure/blue, which would be „lan“.

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