What is Doraemon called in foreign languages?

[torasan]

In China and Taiwan, they write his name as ''哆啦A梦'' - with a romaji ''A'' as the third character of the word. I have no idea, since there is an A sound
in the Chinese sound system. Why don't they write it all in Chinese characters?

And in other countries, France, Germany, Sweden, etc, what is Doraemon called in those languages. In Chinese he is also called SHIAO DING DONG, especially by children, a term meaning LITTLE BELL, for the bell around his neck.

[Professor quick response tells me from her Taipei office: ''I've learned that the sound, from Japanese of course, is not pronounced 'ah' but rather 'ei'; i.e., the Canadian "eh".

But there's only one Mandarin character with that pronunciation, which I'm told both in terms of meaning and tone sound weird for this purpose.

It's a fourth tone 'ei', and it means (from my Far Eastern Chinese-English Dictionary) "an exclamation indicating promise or affirmation":

"Ei(4), wo(3) jiou(4) lai(4)!" means "Yes, I'll come in a moment!"]

[IparryU]

In China and Taiwan, they write his name as ''哆啦A梦'' - with a romaji ''A'' as the third character of the word. I have no idea, since there is an A sound
in the Chinese sound system. Why don't they write it all in Chinese characters?

And in other countries, France, Germany, Sweden, etc, what is Doraemon called in those languages. In Chinese he is also called SHIAO DING DONG, especially by children, a term meaning LITTLE BELL, for the bell around his neck.

[Professor quick response tells me from her Taipei office: ''I've learned that the sound, from Japanese of course, is not pronounced 'ah' but rather 'ei'; i.e., the Canadian "eh".

But there's only one Mandarin character with that pronunciation, which I'm told both in terms of meaning and tone sound weird for this purpose.

It's a fourth tone 'ei', and it means (from my Far Eastern Chinese-English Dictionary) "an exclamation indicating promise or affirmation":

"Ei(4), wo(3) jiou(4) lai(4)!" means "Yes, I'll come in a moment!"]

I see your googlefu is under par young grasshopper...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_no ... n_versions

[American Oyaji]

I see your googlefu is under par young grasshopper...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_no ... n_versions

Damn! Dem deres fightin words!

[Coligny]

France cultural superiority make these intelectual ersatz unwelcomed in the Hexagone (that the geometric name for mainland France)...

Never heard of Doraemon before crashing here...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Somehow I doubt the Chinese word for "bell" is "ding dong".

[Taro Toporific]

In China and Taiwan, they write his name as ''哆啦A梦'' - with a romaji ''A'' as the third character of the word.... In Chinese he is also called SHIAO DING DONG

Actually, he's called "Dongman."


哆啦A梦（动画片）-动漫-全集在线观看-爱奇艺
iqiyi.com/dongman/dlam.html

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[torasan]

Somehow I doubt the Chinese word for "bell" is "ding dong".

from googlefu:

"Dora" is not from dora 銅鑼 meaning gong, but due to the homophony, the series puns on this, with Doraemon loving ''dorayaki.''

The name "Doraemon" can be translated roughly to "stray". Unusually, the name "Doraemon" (ドラえもん?) is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts: Katakana (ドラ) and Hiragana (えもん). "Dora" is from "dora neko" (brazen or stray cat, どら猫), and is a corruption of nora (stray). "Emon" 衛門、右衛門 is a component of male given names, such as Goemon, though no longer as popular as in the past.

[torasan]

Tokyo friends Satoru and Mitsuko tell me today: re the pen name of the creator of DOREAMON:

"The word "A" reminds us of a writer "Fujiko Fujio A," but the writer of Doraemon was "Fujiko F Fujio." Do you know of the two of them?

These two persons had been sharing the same pen name "Fujiko Fujio" to work together, but later they separated and one took the name "Fujiko Fujio A" and the other took "Fujiko F Fujio." Both respectively created many popular manga works.''

Who knew?

[Taro Toporific]

Doraemon cuming out.

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[Taro Toporific]

"Unexpectedly satanic Doraemon at Roppongi Hills"

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pic.twitter.com/JwNftCxS7F --- Dusan Farrington(@quillspatter) July 19, 2014

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[Coligny]

Likely emblem for a satanist passport:

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belzeebub, the whole flesh over spirit pentagram

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Sign of the satanist church, Cross of Lorraine over the infinity

Unlikely emblems:

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Clowns and anything related to the ICP...

[Taro Toporific]

Doraemon-mobile!

Meanwhile, on the mean streets of Tokyo . . .

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pic.twitter.com/h0I7l9J5VQ--Nippon.com (@nippon_en) July 24, 2014

[Taro Toporific]

Unexpectedly satanic Doraemon...

A Warning in China: Beware the 'Blue Fatty' Cat
NYTimes.com | 2014/09/29
...Nothing seems more harmless than the plump-faced Japanese cartoon robot cat, Doraemon, who does not even have claws. He is the key character of a manga series of the same name first published in 1969, which was subsequently adapted into a long-running anime series. But Chinese newspapers cautioned their countrymen: Beware of this “blue fatty” --- the Japanese are exporting their values through him.
Last Friday, three major newspapers in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, fired a salvo of accusations against Doraemon for its “political overtones” and being a tool of Japan’s “cultural invasion.”
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[Taro Toporific]

NYTimes.com | 2014/09/29
...Chinese newspapers cautioned their countrymen: Beware of this “blue fatty” --- the Japanese are exporting their values through him. Last Friday, three major newspapers in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, fired a salvo of accusations against Doraemon for its “political overtones” and being a tool of Japan’s “cultural invasion.”
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Poor Doraemon now is in chains in China.

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Anonymized GettyImages 2014July3
To attract sh0ppers, on the square in fr0nt of a newly opened large c0mmercial center, the traffic dividers are painted as Doraemon...
...Doraemon, an 'ambassad0r' app0inted by Japanese g0vernment in 2OO8 for promoting Japanese culture 0verseas, has been accused by s0me Chinese media of c0rrupting the nati0n's y0uth.