foolip Posted April 25, 2006 at 07:42 PM Report Posted April 25, 2006 at 07:42 PM Hello! The Swedish group Doktor Kosmos has a Mandarin version of their song "Jimi Tenor & Kennet Johnsson" on their EP by the same name. "Jimi Tenor" and "Kenney Johnsson" are names of people. I'd like help identifying the characters in the title so that I can enter it into the musicbrainz database. Here's a photo I took: I can see the character 和, so the title is probably "Jimi Tenor in chinese" 和 "Kennet Johnsson in chinese", but I don't know how those names will be expressed in 2 and 3 characters respectively. Thus, the chinese title won't necessarily make any sort of sense, but I hope someone can help anyway. Edit: Sorry about the title, I'm not so much interrested in a translation as I am of getting the characters in the title in text. Quote
malinuo Posted April 25, 2006 at 08:26 PM Report Posted April 25, 2006 at 08:26 PM 唐朝 is the Tang Dynasty. 李瑞环 is the name of a Chinese politician. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ruihuan . Incidentally, the second character in that name is the first character in the Chinese word for Sweden, 瑞典 ruì diǎn, but that's probably just a coincidence. Quote
foolip Posted April 25, 2006 at 09:17 PM Author Report Posted April 25, 2006 at 09:17 PM Wow, thanks. It seems like Doktor Kosmos had some fun with the Mandarin version. The singer is swedish and probably doesn't prounce the mandarin too great, but I could send the song to anyone who would like to listen to it. Quote
amadeoh Posted April 28, 2006 at 04:20 PM Report Posted April 28, 2006 at 04:20 PM 唐朝 (Táng Cháo) here actually refers to the rock band fairly popular in China with the name 'Tang Dynasty': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty_%28band%29 Anyway translating it to 'Tang Dynasty' should do OK. Quote
Lu Posted April 28, 2006 at 07:09 PM Report Posted April 28, 2006 at 07:09 PM Tang Chao is also the name of a Chinese rock band. But that doesn't make it make more sense. Quote
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