Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26733356-20151004140829

I ask the question because I'm pondering over re-translating the name "Remnant" into Chinese. Currently, it's translated as "树𣎴子世界", where "世界" means "world" and "树𣎴子" means, literally, "stump". That is, "the world of stump(s)".

The reason behind the strange translation is:

1. The very rare word "树𣎴子" appears in the Bible (Isaiah 6:13):

"But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof."

where "substance" means "stump" and translates into Chinese as "树𣎴子";

2. The word "remnant" has a meaning concerning Christian theology ("a small minority of people who will remain faithful to God and so be saved");

3. "树𣎴子" (stump) may be considered a metaphor for "remnant" (I'm not sure if the metaphor truly exists in Christian theology), hence the translation of "Remnant" into "树𣎴子".

My question is: Does the name of the world "Remnant" allude to the Bible? Does the aforementioned metaphor make sense?

Personally, I think it's a very bad translation. Most Chinese don't even know how to pronounce the extremely rare word "树𣎴子", let alone the "mataphor". 