Ookami or Okami?

which is the correct spelling to mean wolf iv been trying to search and some people say one O and others say it is Oo

any help would be much appreciated :)

I have no help, just some ramblings.

Perhaps the "correct" spelling depends on who you talk to. Like English words such as favorite vs. favourite. Both are "correct." One's just a bit more British.

I can tell you that the video game only uses one "O" though :) Okami

http://www.wadoku.de/entry/view/1573766

Wadoku says Okami but for some reason the Hiragana writes oogami... i asume both works.

Edit: one think maybe: the japanese language sometimes puts an additional O in front of a word with the intend to be more polite, but i'm not sure i that works with something like wolf (i've only started to learn the language so my knowledge is very limited)

Edit 2:
Maybe i add the writting for it:
おおかみ
お = O
か = Ka
み = Mi

as you see 2 Os but the word in Arabic letters has an ō instead of OO.

Ookami or Ôkami ( long o ) :
http://jisho.org/search/ookami

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Originally Posted by Tam_Hawkins

http://www.wadoku.de/entry/view/1573766

Wadoku says Okami but for some reason the Hiragana writes oogami... i asume both works.

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It's written ōkami so it's a long o.

okii thanks for your help i think im going to go Ookami :) again tyvm for the help

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Originally Posted by Cold_Raven

I can tell you that the video game only uses one "O" though :) Okami

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That - above the O is what matters, though, signifying that it's a long O, not a normal one. Ookami is more correct I'd say.

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Originally Posted by lololink

Ookami or Ôkami ( long o ) :
http://jisho.org/search/ookami


It's written ōkami so it's a long o.

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Got me between the edits^^
Dont know the ō because it dosn't exist in my language but that would explain it^^

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Originally Posted by Bertie91

which is the correct spelling to mean wolf iv been trying to search and some people say one O and others say it is Oo

any help would be much appreciated :)

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"Correct" spelling in these cases is a matter of taste, since these words are not normally spelled with the Latin alphabet. The first syllable is a long "o", so Ookami might be regarded as more correct. Or you could put a macron over the o, if your text entry allows it.

Tbh it really doesn't matter. The Japanese way of romanticizing their alphabet (which is called nihonshiki romaji) doesn't distinguish between short, long O (ou), or double O (oo) sounds. In Hepburn romaji (which is what you're taught in English > Japanese classes for learning purposes) it is spelled Ookami, but in nihonshiki it's just Okami. Which leads to all sorts of puns about dogs and gods like a certain video game.

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Originally Posted by Bertie91

okii thanks for your help i think im going to go Ookami :) again tyvm for the help

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But it's only "ookami" if you use the kanji on its own. Otherwise (with another kanji, like in a Doman name) it's "rou."