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My surname is translated very wierd
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2017/6/29 19:37
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Ok, so my surename is Hagman, and when i use google voice translate and say my name Hagumanu the translation becomes 白熊の "White bug's" But when I look at the kanji it translates to "White Bear 's" and when i listen to it the voice reads "Shiro kuma no" so how can Hagumanu become Shirokumano? And how can white bear become white bug. Is it just Google messing up or is it something else?
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by Macuzi
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Re: My surname is translated very wierd
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2017/6/30 10:28
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Foreign names are not translated, except as a joke, which I would consider offensive.
Your name is Hagman, pronounced roughly "Hagumanu" (but don't stress the u's too much, it's not Hagoomanoo). Sometimes it may also be written ハグマヌ, but that's that. If and when you become a Japanese citizen, you can talk about kanji.
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by Firas
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Re: My surname is translated very wierd
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2017/7/1 13:14
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My guess, hearing that you used the voice translate, is that it just picked up "hakkuma," "haku kuma" or something close, and converted that to "white bear" (the kanji you have), but maybe you tried it a few times and maybe it picked up "haku bug," or something like that. But if they showed 白熊 and "white bug's" together off of one attempt, I have no idea why they did that.
But back to what others have said, your name is your name, you don't "translate" names. You might get a Japanese phonetic writing as suggested by Kamiya, but that's it :)
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by AK
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