Talk:Dr. Who/@comment-27165809-20151105205522/@comment-25285745-20151106161819

It can be translated as "who," since it is phonetically equivalent to "hu," it just does not carry the literal meaning of the English word "who." When translating a name to Japanese, they will usually opt for the phonetic equivalent rather than the meaning equivalent, hence why they used the character for hu rather than the actual Japanese character for the word "who." It's like how Monster X's Japanese name is Monsuta Ekkusu rather than Kaijuu Ekkusu. Instead of literally translating "Monster X" to Japanese, they chose to simply approximate the English words in Japanese.

Basically, the name can be translated as "who" or "hu," but we just opt to go with Hu in order to avoid confusion with