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Peculiarities of Trilingual Names in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (www.youtube.com)
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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

It stood out to me how in some anime/manga, that characters of Chinese origin are referred to not by standard on'yomi but by a loan reading from modern Chinese. Cardcaptor Sakura stands out: Ri Shaoran from Li Xiaolang, rather than the on'yomi Ri Shourou.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Interesting!

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Looks like it is surprisingly similar to changes of Russian and Ukrainian names between languages where Russian uses Vladimir or Alexandr and Ukrainian uses Volodymyr and Olexandr.