Ookami or Okami?

[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

[Cold_Raven]

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

[GenJoe]

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

that's not exactly how transliteration of languages work.. favorite vs. favourite are regional differences..

Ookami vs. Okami is not, it's the same name in Japanese, it's two different ways of writing the same word but considering its origin, I find it hard to accept that there are multiple correct ways to write another people's language. Not that they haven't tried with my own language..
Just a personal rant, it gets to be really annoying when people start spelling words in your native language 5 different ways and ask me which way is the correct way to spell it.. I always tell them, the correct way would be to not write it in English first..

[Tam_Hawkins]

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.

[Riepah]

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

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.

[lololink]

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

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

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

It's written ōkami so it's a long o.

[Tam_Hawkins]

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


It's written ōkami so it's a long o.

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

[Bertie91]

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

[Fenral]

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

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."

[Sosen]

*Howl* There you go.