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Can someone help me and tell me the translation of the following Chinese term in English, please?

Asked by luigirovatti (2836points) July 27th, 2022

The term is the following:

迪門希得里納德

I think it’s related to ingredient for drugs. I hope someone can help me.

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luigirovatti's avatar

I think I found it. Is it, perhaps, dimenhydrinate?

LadyMarissa's avatar

According to Google — dimon Hidri Nad
According to Bing — Dimon Hidrinard
According toYandex— Dimenshid Rinard
According to DeepL— Dimenschiedrinad, Dimensiedrinath, or Dimensiedrinaad
All are close to what you found, but now you have a choice.
Needless to say, I can’t prove any of it, so I’m leaving it to you!!!

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SnipSnip's avatar

If you can’t find it I doubt I can. I’ve had good luck just putting into the search engine “translate xxx to English.”

Zaku's avatar

Add “Diemen Hidrinad” to the list of non-English suggestions that supposed Chinese-to-English translators offer. Suggestions, which seem to appear practically nowhere else on the web.

Meanwhile, doing a Google Advanced Search for 迪門希得里納德 gives about 7 results to pages which don’t seem to contain that string (&%#@ you, Google), 2 of which are a suicide manual, and one of which is about drugs.

Searching for “Dimenschiedrinad” in Ecosia search interestingly offers results for Dimenhydrinate (an anti-nausea drug) without apparent comment. Google does the same but comments “No results found for Dimenschiedrinad”.

I want to see an interrogation of the people who programmed these translation programs. (Please remember this crap, the next time anyone entertains any notions that AI is about to be indistinguishable from humans, or that AI is about to achieve “THE SINGULARITY” sigh…)

One of them lists the overdose symptoms as “Overdose symptoms may include extreme drowsiness, irritability, dilated pupils, hallucinations, or seizure. In children, an overdose may cause irritability or restlessness followed by severe drowsiness.” – which does not seem to me to correlate to the theme of suicide in those search results for 迪門希得里納德.

zenvelo's avatar

@Zaku What I have learned from this exercise is that Google Translate cannot handle a dictionary of pictograms, but is able to somehow decode something akin to the vocalization.

Jeruba's avatar

Dimenhydrinate (Wikipedia)

Dimenhydrinate (webmd.com): “Dimenhydrinate is an antihistamine used to prevent and treat nausea, vomiting, and dizziness caused by motion sickness.”

Sounds like you’ve found the right term yourself. It’s sold under the name of Dramamine. My father used to give it to us kids before we started on a long car trip to prevent carsickness.

RocketGuy's avatar

Meclizine works better.

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