'Wukong,' 'Goku,' and 'Ogong' all mean 'Awakening to Emptiness' in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, respectively, and the Chinese dub also refers to Goku as 'Wukong' by that proxy. Son Goku - Japanese on'yomi name reading for Sun Wukong from Journey to the West, whom Goku is based on via Chinese and Japanese character parallels in the Korean dub, Goku is renamed 'Son Ogong', the Korean name reading for Sun Wukong.Kakarot ( Kakarotto) - Goku's birth name, an interesting mutation of 'carrot'.Kale ( Kēru) - Named after a type of green of the same name.Gine - Derives from negi (葱), the Spring Onion in Japanese.In the beta name her name was Korn based on the word corn Fasha ( Seripa) - In Japanese, formed by rearranging the letters in 'parsley'.Caulifla - Comes from the vegetable, cauliflower.In the japanese version when Kale first transforms to her legendary super saiyan state, she calls him Cabbage (the same way Roshi calls Broly in movie 8 - 'broccoli') He also shares his name pun with the Saiyan hero Beat. Beets - named after the vegetable beets.Bardock ( Bādakku) - A pun on a Japanese root vegetable, a 'Burdock'.

Curiously, this would mean both Tarble and his brother Vegeta's names pun 'vegetable'.

Tarble ( Tāburu) - Believed to be taken in English as 'Table', making this name another a pun on 'vegetable', particularly its last five letters.

King Vegeta ( Bejīta-ō) - Same as Vegeta's.

Vegeta ( Bejīta) - The first six letters of ' vegetable'.

Saiyan ( Saiya-jin) - In Japanese, saiya is formed by rearranging the syllables of the Japanese word yasai which means 'vegetable'.Īll full-blooded Saiyans' birth names are puns on various vegetable names.

24 Gods of Destruction and their attendants.

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