DRAGON BALL CHARACTER NAME ORIGINS Infographic by House of Infographics CARROT KAKAROT son goku GOHAN GOHAN rice / meal - japanese VEGETA VEGETABLE RADITZ RADISH NAPPA NAPA CABBAGE PAN bread - japanese PAN TRUNKS KRILLIN KURI chestnut - japanese TRUNKS BULMA BLOOMERS YUM CHA TIEN SHINHAN TIEN CHUN FAN JIAOZI dumpling - chinese YAMCHA CHIAOTZU dim sum - chinese fried rice - chinese LAUNCH LUNCH YAJIROBE YAJIROBE japanese balancing toy PICCOLO PICCOLO musical instrument MR. SATAN SATAN VIDEL DEVIL FRIEZA FREEZER OOLONG chinese tea PUAR PU ERH chinese tea KARINTO japanese traditional snack OOLONG KORIN BIBBIDI-BOBBIDI-BOO! disney's cinderella magic spell BIBIDI BABIDI BUU DABURA ABRACADABRA HOUSEF INFOGRAPHICS I named him just because it sounds comfortable -Aktra Torlyama- @HouselGs BUBBLES MR. POPO BUBBLES michael jackson's chimpanzee pet www.houseofinfographics.com source: dragonball.wikla.com
This time the House of Infographics present you the infographic about the origin of the name of the character in the Dragon Ball series. Did you know that Akira Toriyama the creator of Dragon Ball giv... es his characters names from a variety of everyday objects ? Saiya race itself is taken from Yasai Japanese word , which means vegetables, and therefore the characters of the tribe Saiya is taken from the names of vegetables. Kakarot (Goku ‘s real name on the Planet Saiya) is taken from the word carrot, Vegeta the prince of the tribe Saiya is derived from vegetable, etc.. For more further you can see on Dragon Ball Wiki page here. For you fans of Dragon Ball, enjoy this infographic and don’t forget to share this infographic to your friends who love Dragon Ball too ! :D If there is much demand, this infographic will be updated with a more complete number of characters, including characters from his movie :)

Did you know that in the past 7 days (February 1-7, 2012), there have been a total of 217 Earthquakes Worldwide ranging from 2.5 to 7.1 in magnitude?Dragon Ball is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an semble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, Dr. Slump. While many of the characters are humans with superhuman strgths or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals, extraterrestrial lifeforms, and deities who govern the world and the universe.
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During the course of the story, protagonist Son Goku is adopted by Grandpa Son Gohan and counters allies like Bulma, Master Roshi, and Trunks; rivals such as Ti Shinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta; and villains such as Frieza, Cell, and Majin Buu. Goku's group of associates, known as the Dragon Team (ドラゴンチーム , Doragon Chīmu ),
Bolsters its ranks throughout the series with the addition of former emies and new heroes. The group is also known in Japanese as the Z Fighters (Z戦士 , Zetto Sshi )
The Dragon Ball franchise begins in Goku's boyhood years as he trains in martial arts and explores a fantastical version of Earth (地球 , Chikyū ). The plot revolves around his search for the sev Dragon Balls used to summon a wish-granting dragon. The tone of the series becomes more action-orited and less comedic as Goku reaches adulthood. He and his allies defd Earth against various threats, overcoming seemingly insurmountable opponts, and evtually emerging victorious against progressively more powerful foes.
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The series also includes depictions of the afterlife and time travel as a means of creating historical divergces. Dragon Ball Super in particular expands the setting of the series to include parallel universes; the vast majority of the Dragon Ball series takes place in Universe 7, or the Sevth Universe in the glish dub.
Akira Toriyama initially based most of the characters on those from Journey to the West: Goku from the Monkey King, Bulma from Tang Sanzang, Oolong from Zhu Bajie, and Yamcha from Sha Wujing.
Toriyama explained that the reason there are many anthropomorphic characters is that he found it easier to visually differtiate them compared to human characters.
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He claimed that he has trouble drawing females, which is why there are relatively few female characters in the Dragon Ball series.
To advance the story quickly, he introduced Goku's signature flying nimbus cloud, later gave most fighting characters the ability to fly, and evtually granted Goku teleportation.
Many Dragon Ball characters have names that are puns, which are associated with related characters. For example, Bulma and her family are named after undergarmts, members of the human-like ali race known as the Saiyans are named after vegetables, and because Frieza is a pun on freezer, the Ginyu Force are named after products that are kept in a refrigerator.

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A study on sound symbolism and its effect on character names conducted by researchers at Tsuda University, Tokyo discover that out of a sample size of 118 villainous characters from Dragon Ball, the consonants /g/ and /b/ were frequtly used in their names and that there was a strong tdcy to link bad & male characters with /ɡ/, which supports the notion that a sound-meaning association can be attested in at least some phonemes in the Japanese language.
His wife was the one who named the series' signature Kamehameha (かめはめ波 , lit. Kamehame Wave), but he named all the others, ev selecting them specifically for each character; saying someone like Vegeta would use names in glish, and using kanji for the more sophisticated Piccolo.
The franchise's anime and film adaptations feature some original characters not created by Toriyama but by Toei Animation staff: Dragon Ball GT and the vast majority of the film adaptations and OVAs exist in their own unique continuities which branch off from the anime television series at various points, so original characters introduced in the films are usually unknown to the characters in either or both of the official anime and manga series continuities.
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Members of the Dragon Team or Z Fighters in volume 13 of the Dragon Ball Z manga series, from left to right: Vegeta, Ti Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, Krillin, Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, and Future Trunks
The most promint protagonist of the Dragon Ball series is Goku, who along with Bulma forms the Dragon Team to search for the Dragon Balls at the beginning of the series. After the truth of Goku's heritage is revealed, Saiyan characters play a ctral narrative role from Dragon Ball Z onwards: Bardock and Trunks from an alternate future timeline serve as the protagonists of their respective side stories, while Goku's son Gohan briefly assumes the role of series protagonist following the conclusion of the Cell Games Saga. Vegeta is featured as the co-protagonist for Dragon Ball Super.
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First introduced as a young boy, Son Goku (孫悟空 , Son Gokū ) is depicted as immsely strong, pure of heart, and extremely competitive, but dedicated to defding his adopted home Earth from internal or external threats. Although he appears human, it is later revealed that Goku is a Saiyan, and that his original name is Kakarrot.
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Bulma (ブルマ , Buruma ) first appears as a teager using the Dragon Radar, a fictional device she created to detect the ergy signal emitted by Dragon Balls. She is led to Goku's location by the signal emitted by the four-star ball in his possession and recruits him as a bodyguard while hoping to get his four-star ball to grant her wish for a boyfrid.
And much later in the series, she marries Vegeta. Bulma has also assumed the role of invtor and has consisttly provided critical tech support to Goku and his frids with their battles against various emies and threats throughout the series. Some of her notable innovations include a microband that could make her shrink, and a time machine that brought her son from an alternate future timeline, Trunks, to the past on multiple occasions.
Krillin (クリリン , Kuririn ) is a bald martial artist and one of Goku's best frids and classmates. He and Goku are under the tutelage of Master Roshi;
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Initially his rival but later a frid, and a loyal companion in advtures thereafter. He is killed by King Piccolo's spawn Tambourine, but is later revived by Shron.
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He helps out during the Android and Cell arcs. He is married to Android 18 and has a daughter, Marron (マーロン , Māron ).
Piccolo (ピッコロ , Pikkoro ) is the spawn of King Piccolo, created to get revge on Goku in the wake of his death, and subsequtly assumes the role as the evil half of Kami.
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However, after being narrowly defeated by Goku, he must team up with him and his frids wh opposing the invading Saiyans, including training Goku's son Gohan.
He dies sacrificing himself to protect Gohan during the fight against the Saiyan Nappa, and trains in the afterlife under King Kai before being wished back to life by the Namekian Dragon Balls.
While he temporarily maintains the partnership during the fights with Frieza and the Androids, by the time of the Cell and Majin Buu arcs he accepts the fact they are allies.

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He is kidnapped by Goku's brother, Raditz, and locked up in a space pod. However, his temper flares and he bursts out of the space pod, dealing a blow
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