See Pandaren (playable) for info on the playable race in Mists of Pandaria.

Pandaren is the language of the pandaren race.^[1]

Pandaren Primer

• Huo = "fire"^[2]
  • Chinese: 火
  • PinYin: huǒ
• Shu = "stream"^[2]
  • Chinese: 抒
  • PinYin: shū
• Wugou = "dirt"^[2]
  • Chinese: 污垢
  • PinYin: wū gòu
• Dafeng = "gale"^[2]
  • Chinese: 大风
  • PinYin: dà fēng
• Huojin = "fire and gold"^[2]
  • Chinese: 火金
  • PinYin: huǒ jīn
• Tushui = "earth and water"^[2]
  • Chinese: 土水
  • PinYin: tǔ shuǐ
• Shao'din = "clan",^[3][1] could mean roughly "recruited into" in Chinese^[4]
• Shodo-pan = Roughly scion/emperor, ^[5] but could mean roughly "Is more than hope" in Chinese^[6]

Untranslated words

• Pan^[7]
• Shaktani^[7]

Names

Pandaren naming practices are similar to those of humans: each pandaren has a given name and a surname. The names themselves, of course, are different.^[8]

• Male Names: Chen,^[9], Cheng, Gao, Jaomin, Ji, Jojo, Jun, Lee, Li, Min, Shang, Shen, Ten, Yu, etc.
• Female Names: Aysa, Kiryn?, Lien-Hua, Mei, etc.
• Asian surnames: Fei, Ro, Wei, Xi, etc.
• Descriptive surnames: Barrelbottom, Bitterrage, Cloudsinger, Dawnscrive, Dimwind, Ironbrow, Palerage, Steelbreath, Stonecarver, Stormstout,^[9] Sugargale, Summerdraft, Sunspark, Thunderhammer, etc.

In Mists of Pandaria

Although pandaren will be capable of speaking their own language, cross-faction communication will not be allowed.

#13 - Pandas can't talk to each other? Why? | 2011-10-24 14:29 | Zarhym

We do understand that, by not allowing pandaren of the opposite faction to communicate with one another, there's a breakdown in the story there. But we feel strongly at this point that changing the precedent on cross-faction communication for one race only will ultimately not lead to a good gameplay experience. We're very excited to introduce a race that can be chosen by either faction, though we don't see our philosophy on cross-faction communication changing as a result of this. This isn't very related, nor is it a way of properly compensating for that communication limitation, but one thing we'd like to do (we think is cool and warranted) is make a unique place in the world exclusive to monks -- think Moonglade for druids.

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Notes

• Although the original pandaren seemed to have a Chinese theme (since pandas come from China), some of the early names and words seemed to more to resemble Japanese words. With the Mists of Pandaria beta, Blizzard seems to have gone more directly to Chinese, but retained a few of the older names.

References

Sources

• A portion or version of this article copied from  Wowpedia on 5-Apr-2012. See list of authors.

External links

WoW Insider Mists of Pandaria beta: A guide to pandaren pronunciation by Anne Stickney Apr 4th 2012 at 7:00PM