Talk:Wukong/SkinsTrivia/@comment-90.184.108.8-20130205192904/@comment-222.245.60.202-20130216134757

Both "Wukong" in Journey to the West and "Goku" in Dragonball are written as "悟空".

"悟空" is phoneticized as "Wukong" in Mandarin Chinese, while its onyomi (Chinese-alike reading in Japanese) reads "Goku" in Japanese as you have mentioned. It is Wukong in LoL, so it is not a Japanese word.

At the very least, "悟空" is the written form for both languages. When it comes to Chinese characters, its meanings in different languages are likely to be same. I happen to know that "悟空" nearly means "awakening to emptiness" in Chinese. "Goku" is a simple transliteration from "Wukong", and I see no point changing its meaning.