Talk:Tai Yong Medical

Chinese transcription
I would like to note that in this Chinese website http://bbs.3dmgame.com/thread-2331544-1-1.html Tai Yong is trancribed to Chinese characters as 泰永 (pinyin: Tài Yǒng), meaning something like great eternity. On the other hand, the proposed Chinese transcription on the article (太阳 Tài Yáng) bears less relation to the original pronunciation. Weirando (talk) 23:26, January 13, 2013‎ (UTC)


 * Thanks for the additions thus far, and I'll go ahead and add the first set of the above characters to the page.  Curious, though - why is there a discrepancy in this case, when it seems relatively straight forward?  Is there a significant difference between the meaning of the two sets of characters?  Lastly, and this seems silly, but could the in-game pronunciation actually be 'wrong'? - not to fault the linguistic division of the devs, but this is afterall a game primarily created by Canadians and primarily marketed to the US...  Dsurian 00:03, January 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * First of all I apologize for my not very good English, which is not my mother tongue. To answer your question, I have studied Mandarin Chinese for a year and I can say that is not easy to deduce which hànzì (Chinese character) is appropiate for a particular syllabe. Chinese language is a tonal language and each syllabe (the pronounciaton of a single hànzì) can mean different things depending on the tone (indicated with diacritics), the hànzì in which is written, or the context. Moreover, a single sound (with a specific tone) can signify multiple concepts and be written in other multiple hànzì.  In my opinion the discrepancy is due a mistaken deduction. Weirando (talk) 21:07, January 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * This makes sense. I agree that the developers must have made a mistake. It happens all the time. Deanb0608 (talk) 20:15, January 7, 2013 (UTC)