N00b question and translation question

[solo]

N00b: so does Zhu Yilong make a habit of clutching cushions in interviews? I'm sure I've seen two separate instances now.

Translation: the Lord of Dixing (地星)　is actually the Lord of Dijun (地君). What is that thing, what does it mean? From Japanese I only know it as another form of address, so 地君大人　would be like 'earth lord lord'. There's also that Dijun (地君) register. Is the difference important, or do I just go with Dixing for all of that?

@foxglove I tried to do an 'ask' on tumblr the other week but I'm bad with tumblr and you probably never got it. (And now I can't remeber what I wanted to know but it'll come back to me!) I think I'll stick with DW for my stupid translation questions.

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[china_shop]

Past! This post is locked, jsyk. :-)

[solo]

??? What did I doooo?

[china_shop]

Hi, sorry, stupid auto-correct. /o\ I was just pointing out that this post is flocked, when maybe you didn't mean it to be?

[solo]

Oh, I always lock to the comm or to my journal. But I unlocked this one now. 😊

[china_shop]

👍🙂

[yantantether]

I'm not an expert, but my dictionary gives 君 as 'monarch/sovereign.' So I guess 地君大人 would be like 'Lord Earth King'? But if it's referring to the Dixing 'king', I guess just 'Lord of Dixing' would make most sense?

[solo]

Yeah, but why the difference between 地星 and 地君, and if 地君大人 is Lord of Dixing, does it follow that 地君册 is the Dixing booklet not the Dijun booklet? (It is fairly consistently Dijun in the subs, which is what made me wonder about all this in the first place.)

I guess in the end it doesn't matter so much but I just like things to be consistent....

[firestar]

I think the cushion thing is a thing he does? I remembering reading somewhere that it was one of his own traits he pulled in to use for He Kaixin in Royal Sister Returns. Could be wrong, though.

[solo]

Thank you, I know next to nothing about the actors, really, but I find him hiding behind a cushion incredibly cute!

[firestar]

It's adorable. <3

[extrapenguin]

大人 is just a generic suffix one uses to indicate respect. Eg we have people address Shen Wei as 黑跑使大人 quite often. So the man's title is 地君 "earth lord" (Lord of Dixing), and he's addressed to his face as 地君大人.

[solo]

Yeah, the 大人 is not my problem - rather, I'm entertained that the hanzi for Lord are literally 'big person' *g*

I was wondering the deal is between 地星 and 地君 and whether it's legit to translate both the same way. Like I said above, the 地君册 is commonly called the Dijun (not Dixing) booklet in the subs, so that made me wonder. :)

[extrapenguin]

Chinese occasionally leaves out 的 when it's "obvious", so the booklet is probably meant to be the Dijun's booklet (of Dixing powers).

On 17/02/2019, 10.44 solo - DW Comment <dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:

Solo (solo) replied to a comment you left in a Dreamwidth entry "N00b question and translation question". The comment they replied to was:

大人 is just a generic suffix one uses to indicate respect. Eg we have people address Shen Wei as 黑跑使大人 quite often. So the man's title is 地君 "earth lord" (Lord of Dixing), and he's addressed to his face as 地君大人.

The reply was:

Yeah, the 大人 is not my problem - rather, I'm entertained that the hanzi for Lord are literally 'big person' *g*

I was wondering the deal is between 地星 and 地君 and whether it's legit to translate both the same way. Like I said above, the 地君册 is commonly called the Dijun (not Dixing) booklet in the subs, so that made me wonder. :)

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[bocje_ce_ustu]

I can only speak from my experience of Japanese, so take that with a grain of salt, but I believe 地星 (Dixing) is the place, while 地君 (Dijun) is the title of King of Dixing.
In 地君, 地 stands for the complete term 地星, and 君 means “king”. It might seem confusing, but it’s not unusual to find the name of a country (in this case Dixing) indicated only by its first/most defining character in compounds (for the sake of brevity and, I reckon, for propensity towards compound expressions made of two/four characters).

[solo]

Aaaah, now that's a good point! I have come across this in Japanese too. Yes, that... works. :) Thank you for pointing it out!

[bocje_ce_ustu]

Glad I could help :D

[foxghost]

I got an ask! And I answered it privately so you'll get it back in your inbox. You can also get me via private messaging which would be where I answer most questions because it pings my phone so if I'm awake, I get it.

Bit late here, but 地君 reads instinctively to my ear as just short for 地星君, and I usually translate 大人 as "your honour" or "The honourable" like one would address a judge.