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Bill
比爾 is the name Bill in Chinese (Mandarin).
Bill
ビル is the name Bill in Japanese.
Note: Because this title is entirely Japanese Katakana, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
Great Lord / Tycoon
大君 is the Japanese word Taikun. It's defined directly as liege, lord, or an alternate title for a shogunate.
The sound of this Japanese word entered the English lexicon by the 1800s but took the spelling of “tycoon.” Even President Lincoln was referred to as a Tycoon in the 1860s.
In Japan, this is still understood as “Great Lord” or “Big Boss.” In America, it means “Bill Gates” and “Warren Buffet.”
White Crane
白鶴 means White Crane.
This title directly means “White Crane” in Chinese, but in English, this particular crane is referred to as the “red-crowned crane” or “Grus Japonensis.” This crane is mostly white with a red bill (crown).
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Bill | 比爾 比尔 | bǐ ěr / bi3 er3 / bi er / bier | pi erh / pierh | |
| Bill | ビル | biru | ||
| Great Lord Tycoon | 大君 | tai kun / taikun | ||
| White Crane | 白鶴 白鹤 | bái hè / bai2 he4 / bai he / baihe | pai ho / paiho | |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
