Did you ever notice all the names in Dragonball Z are funny or unusual? This page has a list of characters names and what their names mean. Most of them involve food.
| Bulma -
Buruma (bloomers) are tight gym shorts worn by Japanese school Girls
Dr. Briefs - A kind of men's underwear Oolong - A common type of Chinese Tea Yamcha - Yamucha is another word for dim sum. (Chinese Appetisers) Pu'ar - Pu erh is a special kind of Chinese tea that is formed into bricks Tenshinhan - Tenshin are Chinese Deserts Chaozu - another reading for his name is gyoza, or pot stickers Kinto'un - Kinton is boiled, mashed yellow sweet potatoes with chestnuts Gohan - Boiled rice or a meal Saiyan - rearrange the syllables to make the word yasai, meaning vegetables. Raditz - Raddish Vegeta - Vegetable Nappa - a general term for greens and a type of cabbage Kakkarot - an interesting mutation of the word carrot Namek - add 'uji' and you have namekuji, meaning slug Dende - add 'n' and you have denden; denden-mushi is snail in Japanese Cargo - add 'es' and you have escargot, the French word for edible snails Nail - add 's' and you have snail |
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