Meanings of The Hand's goon names

justplainchips
justplainchips Posts: 133 Tile Toppler
edited October 2016 in MPQ General Discussion
Every time I saw a Konran, Kishu, or Teisatsu in a fight I'd wonder if the words actually meant something in Japanese and then I'd think to myself "I'll have to look up that word online to see" but then promptly forget about it by the time I got to a computer or whatever. And I always figured Shinobi was another name for ninja.

Well, no longer! Today was the day I finally remembered to look up those words. And I figured that at least one other person might be as curious as me so I decided to post here. icon_e_smile.gif

Konran means: chaos, confusion, disorder

Sources:
http://www.kanjijapanese.com/en/dictionary-japanese-english/konran
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B7%B7%E4%B9%B1

Teisatsu means: reconnaissance, scout

Sources:
http://www.kanjijapanese.com/en/dictionary-japanese-english/teisatsu
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%81%B5%E5%AF%9F

Shinobi means: sneak, spy, ninja

Sources:
http://www.kanjijapanese.com/en/dictionary-japanese-english/shinobi
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BF%8D%E3%81%B3

Kishu was a little harder to look up as there is a dog breed with that name and I can't find an entry on wikitionary. But the other site gives the following definitions: horseman, rider, standard-bearer

Source:
http://www.kanjijapanese.com/en/dictionary-japanese-english/kishu

Comments

  • Cousin Simpson
    Cousin Simpson Posts: 1,086 Chairperson of the Boards
    Nice!

    Now do the Maggia.
  • amusingfoo1
    amusingfoo1 Posts: 597 Critical Contributor
    I'd been meaning to look this up for ages, also.

    Konran %BA%AE%CD%F0?TR
    Shinobi %C7%A6%A4%D3?TR
    Teisatsu %C4%E5%BB%A1?TR
    Kishu %B4%FA%BC%EA?TR

    The first character in shinobi is the same as the first character of ninja (%C7%A6%BC%D4?TR; this was the only one of the four that I knew without looking up).
    The second character for Kishu is the one for 'Hand'. Would have been cool if they could have come up with only names that contained that character somewhere. Definitely would have taken some creativity, though, with a very deep knowledge of the language.
  • Ludaa
    Ludaa Posts: 542
    Very cool, thanks for doing this! I believe everyone has their own unique term for the Kishu, though it's not likely forum friendly.
  • Felonius
    Felonius Posts: 289 Mover and Shaker
    Neat post. Thank you!
  • Marine8394
    Marine8394 Posts: 301 Mover and Shaker
    Awesome. I always wondered if they had meaning. Nice job! Now can u fix BFF so we can all earn some anniversary stuff icon_lol.gif .Looks like the Devs could use your help.
  • Suddenreal
    Suddenreal Posts: 92 Match Maker
    Ludaa wrote:
    Very cool, thanks for doing this! I believe everyone has their own unique term for the Kishu, though it's not likely forum friendly.


    Kishu %B4%FA%BC%EA?TR

    So, the first character means Tiny, but I can't figure out what the second one is. Think it's some sort of pet?
  • rbdragon
    rbdragon Posts: 479 Mover and Shaker
    Suddenreal wrote:
    Ludaa wrote:
    Very cool, thanks for doing this! I believe everyone has their own unique term for the Kishu, though it's not likely forum friendly.


    Kishu %B4%FA%BC%EA?TR

    So, the first character means Tiny, but I can't figure out what the second one is. Think it's some sort of pet?

    I thought the first character meant Quake's and the second one meant something about a female dog... icon_e_wink.gif
  • Jam_Adams
    Jam_Adams Posts: 486 Mover and Shaker
    Side note: I really hate how teisatsu's Turn To Smoke takes precedence over Bullseye's Contract Killer.

    Like, I killed YOU. how does your passive proc over mine???
  • The Bob The
    The Bob The Posts: 743 Critical Contributor
    Suddenreal wrote:

    Kishu %B4%FA%BC%EA?TR

    So, the first character means Tiny, but I can't figure out what the second one is. Think it's some sort of pet?
    amusingfoo1 wrote:
    The second character for Kishu is the one for 'Hand'. Would have been cool if they could have come up with only names that contained that character somewhere. Definitely would have taken some creativity, though, with a very deep knowledge of the language.



    So the Kishu characters mean "tiny" ... "hand" ... holy cow, Kishu is Trump!!!
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    The Bob The wrote:
    So the Kishu characters mean "tiny" ... "hand" ... holy cow, Kishu is Trump!!!

    The dude gets everywhere in this game...
    govHFR0N.jpg
  • TxMoose
    TxMoose Posts: 4,319 Chairperson of the Boards
    my former nick for kishu cannot be posted but know he's known by "owned by quake"
  • ZeroKarma
    ZeroKarma Posts: 513 Critical Contributor
    Suddenreal wrote:
    Ludaa wrote:
    Very cool, thanks for doing this! I believe everyone has their own unique term for the Kishu, though it's not likely forum friendly.


    Kishu %B4%FA%BC%EA?TR

    So, the first character means Tiny, but I can't figure out what the second one is. Think it's some sort of pet?

    The first symbol is flag as the OP guessed. At least it is Chinese, so I expect it is the same in Japanese.

    So flag hand or standard bearer would be a good translation.

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