Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26281589-20131112205848/@comment-107.178.200.5-20140907080202

107.178.200.13 wrote: ok/ Mercen-x

lie ren means hunter(猎人） . mkay Ren lie means nothing, it would be 人猎, grammatical error

and Jaune refers to him as Ren, his first name. although人means "a person""human""man"

and look and sun wukong. another rwby name abiding to the chinese naming format/standard. This is 孙悟空‘s pinyin. and 孙悟空 is known by literallyl every chinese to be the monkey human figure wielding his signature highly convertible stick weapon that can transform as high as mountains and as small as a needle, who battles against corruption both among monsters and gods of the Hindu Buddism world. Sun (of Rwby) character design can't be more obviously based mainly on 孙悟空, from Chinese literature. Nobody calls 孙悟空 sun, they always call him wukong. This was the 4 top literature piececs of ALL of ancient chinese literature from all the dynasties all the way up to the last Qing dynasty. Everybody literally reads these when they are a kid.

So spare me some dragon ball references as those are modern Japanese adaptation/deviantart/nods to ancient chinese characters

(Sun and Yang are the 2 that are referred to by their surname, and prounounced in American english to not make it awkward to the major US audience, you know, San, and yan in pinyin sounds familiar to the American pronounciation aka American Chinese of Sun孙 and Yang杨）

so yang xiao long, like on the wiki of yang, literally is thepinyin of a chinese styled name 杨小龙, with YANG being the surname, xiaolong being what she should have been called on a daily basis

instead of 阳, a very rare surname， the more common surname that's pronounced YANG should be 杨. 杨(yang) as a surname is at least top 10 in china and has been so for a long period in history dating back thousands of years ago.

if long is her last name then yang xiao is her first name. yangxiao makes no sense at least according to the wiki 阳小 is grammatically wrong. it translate to sun little. nobody says that in chinese. it's always small sun, and even that it's rare cus the sun is never considered or called small in most cases

bruce lee is literally Lee xiao long. literally means he's from the Li family, and his first name is named as small dragon, a VERY common first name in china for a long time obviously at least since his era. It's not very common nowadays because it's kinda stupid of a name. Dragon is more traditional to put into someone's name.

And as for Long, you guys mix it up with the Caucasian surname Long. I mean sure Yang is blonde but her official name isn't Lucy Long or something and it's not pronounced LANG like you would for someone called Lucy Long. also there's no reason Rwby as a succesor to successful US based anime styled animation with the four elements involved and good and evil and young protagonists and both humor and seriousness SHOULDN"T equally respect chinese culture AND cater to the North American fanbase