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Chinese korea n Japan can directly translate 直译。 because they are not using ABCD..

And don’t forget Vietnamese names since its order is the same as Korean and Chinese name more than Japanese one

used to be the standard in europe as well, until people stopped having fun

Korean used to use hanja which is similar to how japanese uses kanji.....but the system was not used anymore.....that is how they are interchanged in the 3 languages....same for vietnamese as they used to use a system similar as well that was also not used anymore

Let me nitpick a few things... 2:23 "Native words usually originate from Chinese" They don't. I mean, just ask yourself what the word "native" means. But I also kinda understand what's meant by that, as I presume for Korean people words of Chinese root don't feel as foreign as those from the west, which also is the case for Japanese, myself included. Also, at 2:30 the voice did not read this out quite as written but instead said "Many Hangul words originate from a Chinese character". Well, not from a character, though Chinese do have a sizable amount of words written by a single Character, characters and words are still not the same thing, but saying "Hangul words" was at least more correct than saying "native words". Hangul words are basically every word in Korean though, so the voice could have just simply said "words". 3:25 In Japanese we usually don't write Chinese names with Hiragana as shown on the screen, but with our variant of Chinese Characters, which are simplified version of traditional Chinese, but not as much as those in mainland. Xi Jinping for example would be 習近平. 5:55 the same thing as above also applies here. We write Korean names with Kanji, but this time with phonetical approximation still being attempted, as expained in the video. So for example 문재인/Moon Jae-in is written 文在寅 (which you can see in the news footage btw) and pronounced ムンジェイン/Mun Jein. The pronunciation can however often be captioned in Katakana, for we would normally not know how to pronouce the name without it.

Oh you forget to include Vietnamese in the comparisons? One of the closest languages to Chinese especially thenaming convention despite it's written in roman alphabet.

North Korea (and Chinese Koreans) still read Chinese people's names and geographical names with Hanja pronunciation such as 습근평(Xi Jinping) 하남성(Henan province) (Peking is an exception: 베이징, same as South) Nowadays South usually call Chinese Names before 20th century in this way and using transliterations after that

As an ethnic Chinese, my name can be in Anglicized Cantonese or in Mandarin. I can say my name in Arabic - Harun Malik, or in German Aharon Koenig (I know Germans would laugh cuz it sounds so stupid), Japanese Oh Fuku Ryo, or in Korean Wang puk yang.

In my personal life I actually do the same thing with every kind of name, western and eastern ones alike. Like "Wang" means "king" which when used as a name in Greek is "Βασίλης", so I call Wang "Βασίλη" and vice versa. Same goes for Peter, Pedro, Πέτρος etc. So I don't really find it weird at all. :)

My birth name was actually designed with Korean, Chinese and English in mind, with Japanese being an afterthought. I do have Kim/김/金 as my surname and if I was to take my father's Japanese surname it would be 金田 in Japanese.

I love Chinese people calling my Japanese name with the Chinese pronunciation because they understand the meaning of my name, and the English pronunciation isn't that close to the actual pronunciation anyway. Also, my name happens to have the same pronunciation as a type of fruit, which Chinese speakers tend to find cute!

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As a Chinese one difficulty I encounter when reading Japanese names is when the character has multiple pronunciations in Chinese. If the Japanese reading is on-yomi then it's often easy to figure out the correct Chinese reading since the correspondence is somewhat regular. But if the Japanese reading is kun-yomi (or worse yet, if it's nanori) it can be hard. e.g. I had a hard time figuring out how to pronounce "歌川広重" (Utagawa Hiroshige), in particular whether "重" should be "zhòng" or "chóng". The most logical way seems to be to consider the meaning. Then I guessed the nanori reading "shige" most likely derived from "茂" or "繁" (luxuriant). But then it's still hard to decide whether this is closer to "chóng" (to duplicate) or to "zhòng" (heavy). I ended up deciding on "chóng", but I have no idea how other Chinese people pronounce it. Another difficulty is China and Japan simplified some characters differently, and sometimes different characters in the two languages end up looking the same. When I first visited Japan I was at 錦糸町 in Tokyo and could not pronounce "糸" as it is not a commonly used character in Chinese. I had to look it up and found that it is pronounce "mì". Then six years later I was at 錦糸町 again and suddenly realized that "糸" is actually the Shinjitai of "絲" and should be pronounced "sī", it just happens that "糸" itself is also a Chinese character

please reupload this video, its so relevant now

Chinese has three different systems for Foreign words, not just the solely phonetic one you mentioned! There is solely phonetic, such as coffee (ka fei), but there is also a direct translation, such as fast food (kuai can), and then there is a mix, a transliteration such as beer(pi jiu).

Sooo, it's as whacky as the western name mutation équivalent (as introduced in this video). I love this. 👀🌟 Ah, for the last bit, it COULD be an aesthetic choice, so the cover doesn't seem loaded. Though, contextually, it does make sense for this specific book 😮

Fun Fact: 1. When Japanese people write in English, they even put Chinese surnames at the end (Japanese style English will become Jinping Xi), but this is not the case rest of the world(remain Xi Jinping). 2. Korean is the only language which puts Japanese surnames at the first and also transliterate. All other surname-first language such as Vietnamese and Khmer use secondary translation via English(i.e. surnames at the last). 3. Korean tend to use English name rather than Chinese pronunciation to transliterate Hong Kong people name unless he or she doesn't have English name. Also, it's not uncommon for Korean to use Putonghua instead of Cantonese to transliterate Hong Kong people or place name even though this will anger them. 4. Japanese tend to transliterate English name rather than using Kanji for Hong Kong artists. Sometimes both forms shows simultaneously. 5. Vietnamese use Han Viet to transliterate Chinese names even for ethnic minorities in China (e.g. Địch Lệ Nhiệt Ba 迪丽热巴) but not overseas Chinese (e.g. Yo-Yo Ma 马友友). Japanese never use Kanji for ethnic minorities in China.

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Where my boy volg the russian in hajime no ippo?

Japanese and Korean pheonetics are quite similar. Korean pheonetic is like Japanese + Alpha. So, Korean can pronounce all the Japnese sound correctly, and Japanese can pronounce Korean almost perfectlt except some words

China really thinks they are center of the world. They just read literally like English speaker reads other European language's name. On the other hand, Japan and Korea triy to make similar sound just like Non-English European language

Also, there are some kanji isn't appeared in Chinese hanzi like 凪(nagi),峠(tōge) or 榊(sakaki). But,we just simply pronounce components inside these kanji 凪(止,zhĭ),峠(卡,qiă),榊(神,shén)

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Technically, Korea also pronounces the Chinese character names with Hangul but it just unpopular now and pretty much no one does that anymore other than the older generation. 习近平 (Xi Jinping) -> 습근평 (Seup Geun Pyeong), 豊臣秀吉 (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) -> 풍신수길 (Poong Shin Su Gil).

Chinese translation of names just slaps you unexpectedly. I wanna know how any names are transliterated. People with non Chinese names get Chinese names in Chinese languages. How does that work? For example how would Chinese people write Narendra Modi in Chinese and pronounce it??

Don't Koreans also have the hanji system for Chinese characters? I'm pretty sure they don't use it that much anymore, but that is still exists.

English speakers basically do the same thing not necessarily with people's names, but with place names. Rome, Paris, Warsaw, Florence, Venice, Naples, St.Petersburg, and etc

It shows, that Japan has one big problem not only with the decreasing birth rate, but also the economy is struggling slowly because the rural landscapes and places, the poulation is decreasing in a alarming rate. And the country is doing its best, to bring back the population out of the cities, like the perfect example why Hotarus family was going out to the rural places for some reason.

유럽의 언어들과 문자들은 그 뿌리가 같지만 아시아 각국의 언어들은 그 뿌리가 다르고 오로지 문자만 빌려 사용하였으니 당연히 서로 다르지요.

Very serious video

Nearly every noun gets gendered grammatical case ending in Lithuanian which is related to sanskrit.

Although many Korean words are said to be derived from Chinese words, there are Korean words that originate from Korean people, not from outside. We call them Soon-soo-Uri-maal (순수 우리말). Some of these Korean originating words have good usages in Korean language. For instance, some babies are named using these original Korean have really pretty sounding names with good meanings.

7:55, several lines of subtitles flashes fleetingly by, and has no corresponding sound in the video, and then it all goes back to normal.

And then there's Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, when foreign names are used. Even though they are the same language, there are different names for foreign people. Eg trump. They all write a different name for him. 當勞侵 - 川普 - 特朗普 but all sounds like 'trump' or 'donald trump'

In short, Japan and Korea both adopt Chinese writing but Korea adopt Chinese pronunciation too at least the name part. Chinese being the host culture don't care about what Japan and Korea think.

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Even Japanese themselves find it hard to understand scripts filled with katakana...

I have noticed that modern Korean tends to transliterate the names of Chinese people directly from Mandarin, rather than use the Sino-Korean pronunciation. Probably this is because they do not use hanja anymore.

Chinese people place much more emphasis on the written language than pronunciation. The written characters are what give the Chinese language meaning. Speaking is just a method of referring to the written characters. Different dialects of Chinese have different pronunciation for the same characters anyway. So, if those characters exist in your language, then don't worry about your local pronunciation being different.

Kazuo ishiguro mentioned! Instant like! Great video, very concise overview of an interesting part of human culture. Names are very important to people, and it's great to see it being explored through an interesting angle

The Chinese and Koreans are Mr. Kims, and both speak fast and angrily, and are uncomfortable to listen to. Korean and Chinese are similar. But Japanese and them have completely different names and pronunciations.

Vietnamese language is in the same case. Almost all Vietnamese last names have correlated Chinese last names. Once upon a time Vietnamese people have same names as Chinese. However, when Vietnam changed their language system under the influence of French occupation, Chinese characters (pictographic language system) had to be translated into the phonetic system. And the Vietnamese language now has kept the pronunciation of the Chinese character as best as they could. Like any languages, pronunciation evolves over time. Accents merge by regions. But if the writing system changes, it gets very difficult to trace the origins. This is why I think most of Vietnamese people don't even know that their last names can be closely related to Chinese, or Chinese culture.

in spanish we still did that up to very recently

it's not uncommon in Japanese to write Korean names entirely in katakana.

You make great stuff, man. You'd make a great socioscientist.

Heres another fun fact. The designation at the end of streets - like SW/SE/NE/NW is the direction from the downtown core is for avenues, if its in the front, its streets. And NE 52nd st and NW 52nd st are pretty far away from each other, so make sure you pay attention to that designation.

This was quite common in Europe and is still used in some places like nobility. Often times, someone had an "official" name in Latin and local variants were then derived from it. People like Christopher Columbus have a ton of different prononciations in different languages.

Japanese never write in romaji unless they're trying to write for foreigners. And even when they do, they use a funky system that foreigners can't understand. E.g. kou iuu huu na romazi wa yomu no ga muzukasii.

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"Moon Jae In" is North Korean