# Japanese speakers: help with translation of a term **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 2, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speakers-help-with-translation-of-a-term/934120 "2021-03-02T16:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speakers-help-with-translation-of-a-term/934120/1 "2021-03-02T16:39:08Z")
[The Hamaoka Nuclear Exhibition Center has a dome theater](https://www.chuden.co.jp/hamaoka-pr/theater/) that used to have an OMNIMAX (IMAX dome) film projector, but they converted it to digital in 2018, and renamed it, since they couldn’t use the IMAX brand any more. When I look at it through Google Translate, it’s called the Yuyu Theater. What does this this term mean, and is there a better translation, or another way for me to understand the name? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speakers-help-with-translation-of-a-term/934120/2 "2021-03-02T19:05:42Z")
I have studied Japanese a lot in the past, so I did a few web searches to try to make sense of your “YuuYuu Theater.” (1) The theater name, in your original link, uses the phonetic katakana for the “YuuYuu” which could mean it is simply the name of the theater, and not a special meaning like “IMAX” or similar. (2) Plugging this katakana term into google brings me right back to your original link, which implies it’s just a name and not a standard word for this type of theater technology. (3) However, there exists a term “Yuuyuutaru” which means “boundless” or “leisurely” according to [this link](https://www.japandict.com/%E6%82%A0%E3%80%85?lang=eng). (It is possible that the link will not work because there were Kanji characters in the link which got replaced with a series of numerical info looking like %E6… because this website might not use UNICODE.) Anyway, long story short, there is a Japanese adjective Yuuyuu that means calm, expansive, leisurely…which is a nice fit for a huge theater experience, but they chose to use the katakana form, which is more modern. (In the sense that modern, electronic products typically do not use kanji except where they have to.) I believe the word Yuuyuu is just part of the name, but it is backed up by (and implied to have the same meaning as) the kanji term “yuuyuu(taru).” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speakers-help-with-translation-of-a-term/934120/3 "2021-03-03T05:00:28Z")
Thanks, this is helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speakers-help-with-translation-of-a-term/934120/4 "2021-03-03T05:45:14Z")
> [@Limmin](#): > > However, there exists a term “Yuuyuutaru” which means “boundless” or “leisurely” according to [this link](https://www.japandict.com/%E6%82%A0%E3%80%85?lang=eng). (It is possible that the link will not work because there were Kanji characters in the link which got replaced with a series of numerical info looking like %E6… because this website might not use UNICODE.) That is known as percent-encoding and is the standard way Unicode characters are encoded in URLs, or rather Internationalized Resource Identifiers. > **[Percent-encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding)** > > URL encoding, officially known as percent-encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a uniform resource identifier (URI) using only the US-ASCII characters legal within a URI. Although it is known as URL encoding, it is also used more generally within the main Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) set, which includes both Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Name (URN). As such, it is also used in the preparation of data of the application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type, as is... > **[Internationalized Resource Identifier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier)** > > The Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) is an internet protocol standard which builds on the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol by greatly expanding the set of permitted characters. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 2005 in RFC 3987. While URIs are limited to a subset of the US-ASCII character set (characters outside that set must be mapped to octets according to some unspecified character encoding, then percent-encoded), IRIs may additionall IRIs ext... ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-speakers-help-with-translation-of-a-term/934120/5 "2021-03-05T17:35:42Z")
Nice, thanks! I think the link actually still works…would be interested to hear from someone if you get to the same page I did.