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ELI5: How do they translate made up words when translating something like Lord of the Rings into a language with a writing system like Chinese or Japanese?
gpt
Not sure about Chinese, but in Japanese it would be translated as faithfully as possible phonetically, since Japanese also has a syllabic/phonetic writing system (kana) in addition to kanji (which is what you're thinking of).