Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20150510154451/@comment-995426-20150518200411

This scene tickles my linguistics fancy.



These are all (Chinese characters), with no hiragana or katakana. From what I could tell, the chant Splinter and Leonardo were reciting was not in ordinary Japanese, but in &mdash;maybe where the characters are each pronounced according to their Sino-Japanese readings.

Aaaaaand, this is about as much as I know. I am not fluent in Japanese, nor can I read tons of kanji&mdash;I just recognize what it is but not what it means. It would be nice to at least have a Unicode transcription of all these characters. I could probably decipher some of them through lookup, but there's another complication:  The characters are written in the  (semi-cursive) script style, which means they are readable if you're already familiar with Chinese characters, but it can be a little harder to properly identify radicals for lookup if you can't already recognize them in advance.