In the album's English tracklisting, this is called "Ha Ha Lili", in the Chinese, it is called 天地记, tian di ji, which is a... conceit? motif? whatever, in titles of stories, to end with ji which means "record". So for example, one of the titles of the story usually called Dream of the Red Chamber in English is shitou ji, "stone record", or, "The Story of the Stone". The word is also found in the title of Journey to the West in Chinese. So, a sense of ancient stories in this choice.
I started to learn Putonghua a week ago. I love Sa Ding Ding's music and I'd like to get the lyrics of Ha ha li li in pinyin. As you are an advance Mandarin Chinese speaker, would you tell me where I can find it? I try to look for it on the net, but as I know just 30 characters, for me is imposible. Thanks a lot:
Noah
My mail is naymayerai@gmail.com, just in case you want to answer me. Thanks again
Its great to see one of her songs translated. The lyrics are quite good too. I am always scared when I se translations of chinese songs, in case the lyrics are bad or not what i imagined at all xD
But, there are parts of the song not in the lyrics. At the beginning (before singing) it sound slike she says "saho li". Also, around 1:35, it sounds like she is saying somehthing like "ai sashidei, sashidorei, sashidorei". Any idea what it means? Or is it just a sound (like the ha ha li li part)?
Do you ahve any plans translating her other videos? I think there are two more.
Hi Noah and Denadel. :) Noah: If you do a Google search for "pinyin generator" and copy/paste the Chinese lyrics I've given here into one, it should help. I'm sorry I don't have the time/energy to do pinyin of it myself right now. I find writing pinyin really tedious, and I have to be in the right mood to do it.
Denadel: I actually just did a translation of the Chinese version of "Holy Incense", and I've done a translation of "Alive" as well. I'll post them up on this blog shortly.
Oh, and denadel, as regarding the stuff not in the lyrics, all I can say is that that stuff isn't in the CD booklet. Therefore, my guess is that it is either meaningless sounds, or another language altogether.
I was thinking the same thing, that it might be made up pr another language. She sings in Tibetian or sanskrit, and I know she has her own language. So that is probably what it is.
Thank you for the translation of holy incense! It is hard coming across chinese translations, and yours are really good. I am glad I found your site, and I am looking forward to future updates :)
I'm a native speaker of English and an advanced student of Mandarin Chinese. Chinese music has always been an inspiration for me. Even when I was a total beginner, I would try to translate my favorite cpop songs.
The character-by-character meaning of "翻歌詞 fan geci" is "flip song words", but the actual translation is "translate lyrics".
In my own little way, my hope is to broaden the audience of cpop the way that many non-Japanese and non-Korean speakers listen to kpop and jpop. I've meant to make an archive for a long time, but I'm not really any good at making websites. A friend suggested I try Blogger. So here I am. :)
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ReplyDeleteI started to learn Putonghua a week ago. I love Sa Ding Ding's music and I'd like to get the lyrics of Ha ha li li in pinyin. As you are an advance Mandarin Chinese speaker, would you tell me where I can find it? I try to look for it on the net, but as I know just 30 characters, for me is imposible. Thanks a lot:
Noah
My mail is naymayerai@gmail.com, just in case you want to answer me. Thanks again
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ReplyDeleteIts great to see one of her songs translated. The lyrics are quite good too. I am always scared when I se translations of chinese songs, in case the lyrics are bad or not what i imagined at all xD
But, there are parts of the song not in the lyrics. At the beginning (before singing) it sound slike she says "saho li".
Also, around 1:35, it sounds like she is saying somehthing like "ai sashidei, sashidorei, sashidorei". Any idea what it means? Or is it just a sound (like the ha ha li li part)?
Do you ahve any plans translating her other videos? I think there are two more.
Hi Noah and Denadel. :)
ReplyDeleteNoah: If you do a Google search for "pinyin generator" and copy/paste the Chinese lyrics I've given here into one, it should help. I'm sorry I don't have the time/energy to do pinyin of it myself right now. I find writing pinyin really tedious, and I have to be in the right mood to do it.
Denadel: I actually just did a translation of the Chinese version of "Holy Incense", and I've done a translation of "Alive" as well. I'll post them up on this blog shortly.
Thanks for reading :D
Oh, and denadel, as regarding the stuff not in the lyrics, all I can say is that that stuff isn't in the CD booklet. Therefore, my guess is that it is either meaningless sounds, or another language altogether.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing, that it might be made up pr another language. She sings in Tibetian or sanskrit, and I know she has her own language. So that is probably what it is.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the translation of holy incense!
It is hard coming across chinese translations, and yours are really good. I am glad I found your site, and I am looking forward to future updates :)
Thanks both for your support. So Sa Ding Ding does the same thing that Massive Attack in the song "Feather" (House soundtrack)?. Funny!!
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