Talk:Чебурашка

gender

Russian wiki says it's a common noun but it's not if it's a proper noun, Cheburashka is male in the cartoon and children's stories. --Anatoli 14:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Descendants

This does not seem to be the right term. The section lists the names used for the character in non-latin scripts, a different name in Chinese, and a transliteration into Japanese (and Armenian?) -- it could list all of the other language versions, such as Tscheburaschka in German, but these are "Names in other languages", or somesuch, not "Descendants". Imaginatorium (talk) 17:09, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

The "Descendants" section is for listing the borrowings of the word in other languages. The Armenian (why the question mark?) and the Japanese descendants are listed correctly. The Chinese one is not a descendant, you are right. It should be in the "Translations" section of English Cheburashka. German Tscheburaschka and other shoulds be added to the list. --Vahag (talk) 17:36, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

The Chinese 大耳猴 is also a derivation from Russian, the literal meaning of components was provided for etymological reasons. It doesn't mean anything but Чебурашка. It's complicated but this is how Chinese borrows foreign words - phonetically, lexically or using a combination of both. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

And there is no rule saying that derivations are not allowed if there is a translation section on an English entry. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

OK, if you say so. I don't understand how Chinese works. --Vahag (talk) 09:08, 5 January 2014 (UTC)