Talk:Taiyang Xiao Long/@comment-24994749-20141002210513

Ok, so before I go change the translation of Taiyang's name I'm going to explain why it doesn't mean the same thing as his daughter's.

Yang Xiao Long is written:

阳 / 陽 -> Sun [Yang]

小 -> Small [Xiao]

龙 / 龍 -> Dragon [Long]

What in her character page we have translated as "Sun Little Dragon".

Now, Taiyang Xiao Long is written:

太 -> too/big/highest/senior/extremely/over [Tai]

阳 / 陽 -> Sun [Yang]

小 -> Small [Xiao]

龙 / 龍 -> Dragon [Long]

Which we used to have translated as "Supreme Sun Little-Dragon".

SOmeone removed because it apparently "didn't make sense".

I understand that at 1st sight the meaning might sound contradictory so I will try to explain and hopefully people here will agree and we can reverse it.

"Little Dragon" [Xiao Long] is the family name, "Supreme Sun" [Taiyang] and "Sun" [Yang] are the names of the father and the daughter individually. Taiyang is the "Supreme Sun" from the "Little Dragons" family and Yang is the "Sun" of the "Little Dragons" family.

Taiyang's name isn't contradictory in itself because the adjectives "Supreme" and "Little" are applied to different nouns. He is "Supreme Sun of the Little Dragon" or "Little Dragon of the Supreme Sun", whatever interpretation you prefer.

There is also that Tai [太] is sometimes added before words to denote greatness or excellence, so Taiyang's name might have originally been "Yang" and then he gained reputation and got nicknamed "Tai" so he passed down his original name to his daughter.