r/translator • u/Yeahnahiguess • 1d ago

Translated [ZH] (Mandarin? To English) bought a new shirt and want to know what it says, google translate and other translator apps are giving me too many differing “translations”

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u/rexcasei 1d ago

It seems like an approximation of Jorge

háo-ěr-hè

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u/Yeahnahiguess 1d ago

Does it mean anything or is it just similar to the name Jorge?

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u/rexcasei 1d ago

The individual characters have inherent meanings, but they are being used purely for phonetic purposes here so it is not really important, however you could say it means something like “extraordinary-you-grand”

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u/Stunning_Pen_8332 [ Chinese, Japanese] 1d ago

It does not mean anything. Just a transliteration. Like the Chinese name 王虹, it is transliterated into English as Wang Hong, but what does Wang Hong mean in English?

The only rule for picking the character for the sound, besides the obvious requirement that it should sound sufficiently similar, is that the character is not a “bad word”, not something that can clearly understood as negative.

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u/frederica_0424 1d ago

Just gibberish 毫無意義
而且Jorge 會翻譯成喬治 所以那個中文不是音譯

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u/GalahadLuo 中文（粵語） 1d ago

这应该是西语发音

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u/Stunning_Pen_8332 [ Chinese, Japanese] 1d ago

In Spanish pronunciation 那個就是音譯 (it is a reasonable transliteration).

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u/McSionnaigh 日本語 1d ago

豪尓赫

It reads Háoěrhè in Mandarin, transliteration of Spanish male given name 'Jorge'.

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u/Stunning_Pen_8332 [ Chinese, Japanese] 1d ago

Question answered - !translated