>>35423992It's not a perfect match.
プラチナ (Purachina; "Platina"/Platinum)
ギラティナ (Giratina)
Japanese is a syllabic language, with a column of vowels (A-I-U-E-O) and a row of consonants (Vowels-K-S-T-N-H-M-Y-R-W-ending n). In addition, you can make certain consonants "voiced" (K > G, S > Z, T > D, H > B, H > P).
From this, you'd think it would be
A-I-U-E-O
KA-KI-KU-KE-KO (GA-GI-GU-GE-GO)
SA-SI-SU-SE-SO (ZA-ZI-ZU-ZE-ZO)
TA-TI-TU-TE-TO (DA-DI-DU-DE-DO)
NA-NI-NU-NE-NO
HA-HI-HU-HE-HO (BA-BI-BU-BE-BO) (PA-PI-PU-PE-PO)
MA-MI-MU-ME-MO
YA-YI-YU-YE-YO
RA-RI-RU-RE-RO
WA-WI-WU-WE-WO
-n
However
>Yi, Ye, and Wu are deprecated and no one uses them anymore, and We is on the way out>This is all Nihon-shiki romanization, which doesn't quite match how we pronounce itWe often use Hepburn romanization as it more accurately matches the pronunciations of the syllables.
>SI is SHI, ZI is JI>TI is CHI, DI is JI (some people use dji)>TU is TSU, DU is ZU (some people use dzu)>HA, when used as a Japanese particle, is WA>HU is FU>HE, when used as a Japanese particle, is E>WO is OThe -tina in Giratina uses ティナ (-tina) while the -tina in Platina uses チナ (-china). テ = TE, but with a small ィ (I) following it, it becomes romanized as TI, often used over CHI to represent words with a "TI" sound (though not always).
Platina/Purachina is also just the Japanese way of saying Platinum after all, much like how they say Alumi/Arumi instead of Alumin(i)um.
