Thread:ThisUserLikesOreo/@comment-35403335-20180622134614/@comment-35403335-20180626143100

Swaggy Shooter wrote: Is Knife Wielding Swordsman his actual name? His name is often translated to "Blade Wielding Hero". Uh, when you say actual, do you mean correct translation? I took a good look as his Chinese name, 持刀大侠, and my conclusion is that Knife-Wielding Swordsman is a terrible translation.

I'll fill you in on some hard facts:

持 means to hold

刀 can mean knife or sword(many individual Chinese characters will have several similar meanings in English). In this case, unless you can regard his weapon as a knife(it's a bit big for that), 刀 should have been translated to sword.

大 means big(in many senses), and is often used to describe an honorable person.

According to Google Translate, 侠 means 'man', but I doubt the reliability. My paper dictionary does not give a meaning for it as an individual character, but I know it is always associated with chivalry.

According to Google Translate, 大侠 means 'hero', which I don't doubt. However, there are more official, well known Chinese names for hero.

Translations I propose would be 'Hero Swordsman', 'Chivalrous Swordsman', Sword-wielding Hero, or 'Blade Wielding Hero'. Definitely not 'Knife-Wielding Swordsman' anyway...(A swordsman wielding a knife?)