One scary story is that Kitty means devil in Japanese, and that a long time ago, a lady had a daughter who had mouth cancer and she made a deal with the devil to create Hello Kitty if he healed her daughter. This is why Hello Kitty has no mouth, because it symbolizes the daughter. So supposedly, Hello Kitty is bad and is the devil.
While this makes for an interesting story, there is no word in Chinese for the word devil that even comes close to the word "kitty". This is just a story.
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No. That story is just too stupid to be true.
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No! Hello Kitty is owned by Sanrio. They named hello kitty in English from the beginning - there is no translation. If you would like to know, if you were to translate 'Hello Kitty' into Japanese, it would be 'Konichiwa Neko San'
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