What is bopae?

[authyrtyr]

I hear alot of people using that word on the forums. Based on context I'm guessing that it's referring to Soul Shields but where did the term come from?

[Yxion]

Another word for soul shields, from Asian version, Korean most likely? Chinese? Idk.

[Ludicium]

Bopae is essential a life path, and represents the trinity of the soul, mind and body.

[eisbluemchen]

Okay, this was bothering me so I finally researched into it.

Bopae is a Korean word that comes from the Chinese word meaning treasure. 

On the Korean site, the soul shields are referred to as bopaes.

 

Edit: Thanks Hanno for the edit. I think your comment went a bit more in depth. ^^ I doubt most people can read Korean though, so I didn't even bother posting that.

Hann

[Hanno]

"Bopae" is romanization of the Korean word "보패", which is localized as "Soul Shield" in NA version. AFAIK the word originates from China and is actually pronounced as "bao bei" and it means 'treasure'.

 

edit: for some reason eisbluemchen's post didn't show up when I was writing this :(

[Slyce]

They are also called "bagua" (in the chinese and german version) which translates to "eight symbols".

If you have been to Naryu Labyrinth, the wheel of fate before the boss room is what an actual bagua would look like.

So you will probably see german players and ppl who played in china before referring to them as bagua.

[Els]

In the french version they are also called "bagua".

[Furholden]

On 8/2/2016 at 11:37 PM, Yxion said:

Another word for soul shields, from Asian version, Korean most likely? Chinese? Idk.

 

 

It's a Korean reference.

[LiriC]

On the russian servers.. the soulshield was called bopae

[rocdog]

2 hours ago, LiriC said:

On the russian servers.. the soulshield was called bopae

So what is it called there now?

[LiriC]

58 minutes ago, rocdog said:

So what is it called there now?

no clue . I've quit the russian servers a very long time ago.

[AttacKat]

On 2/7/2016 at 5:36 PM, authyrtyr said:

but where did the term come from?

The Chinese Feng Shui Ba-Gua, aka 8 trigrams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua

 

Korea through out its history has always had very close ties with China, and the educated ones back then were sent to China and studied, Even today, the older generation Koreans still can read Chinese. Same can be said for Japan.

 

[eisbluemchen]

14 hours ago, AttacKat said:

Korea through out its history has always had very close ties with China, and the educated ones back then were sent to China and studied, Even today, the older generation Koreans still can read Chinese. Same can be said for Japan.

The Korean language is comprised of approximately 50% Chinese characters. So, Koreans in general can read some Chinese (or Hanja), as well as the Japanese (Kanji), as they are taught them throughout their schooling.