User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-5020152-20131028013300/@comment-4819590-20131029120046

Its a common issue. While many people know that Japanese Kanji are derived from Chinese, the stroke order, pronounciation, meaning, and oftentimes appearance are changes, sometimes a lot.

What I see a lot in these types of games, or even in some movie titles or slang terms, is that they use uncommon kanji combinations or kanji that are not in common use. For example one that I've been seeing in sometimes in manga is 魔羅 which I believe is pronounced "mara", but of course my Japanese program won't type those together so I have to write them seperate, and it doesn't come up in my electronic dictionary at all.

I see that a lot in the Monster Hunter games, with some of the place areas or Japanese monster titles that are written in kanji. It looks very cool and flashy, but I think even some Japanese wouldn't know automatically how it is pronounced. Though I was under the impression that the guidebooks and sometimes the website provide the pronounciation, especially since many Monster Hunter players are younger.

The google translator might be thinking its Chinese because its not a normal Japanese word. I know that the latter two are read as 剣山 (kenzan), and I'm pretty sure all together its Senkenzan, but I'm only like, 95% sure. 千 can also be read as Chi, but I doubt that's what is used here.