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Chapter 24: Occlumency

Simplified Chinese (Mandarin: China)
大脑封闭术
Dànǎo fēngbì-shù
大脑 dànǎo = 'cerebrum, brain'.
封闭 fēngbì = 'to seal, close'
shù = 'technique'.
Cerebral closing technique
Traditional Chinese (Mandarin: Taiwan)
鎖心術
Suǒxīn-shù
suǒ = 'lock'.
xīn = 'heart, mind'.
shù = 'technique'.
Mind locking technique
Japanese
閉心術
Heishin-jutsu
hei = 'close'.
shin = 'heart, mind'.
-jutsu = 'art, technique'.
Mind closing technique
Korean
오클러먼시
Okeulleomeonsi
Pending
Vietnamese (Chinese characters show etymology)
Bế quan bí thuật bế quan (閉關) = 'to close' (a frontier).
bí thuật (秘術) = 'secret technique'.
Secret closing technique
Mongolian (new)
Окклюменций
Okklyumentsii
Pending

'Occlumency' is the technique of closing the mind to outside probes and influences. It seems related to 'occlude' (to close) and 'mentis' (the mind).

The Chinese translator quite literally translates this as the 'technique of closing the brain (or cerebrum)'. The Taiwanese translator rather more succinctly renders it as 'lock heart/mind technique'. The Japanese uses a very similar translation referring to a 'close heart/mind technique'.

The Vietnamese translator interprets the expression as a 'secret technique for closing' something off, without specifying that this refers to closing the mind.

(Detailed notes on the chapter can be found at Harry Potter Lexicon)

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