I was trying to decode this text on my mom’s chopsticks. I think it is はろうきてぃ.
Is it a coincidence that it kind of sounds like “Hello Kitty” when I plug it
into Google Translate, but translates to, “I’m excited”?

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Is “Hello Kitty” a pun for “I’m excited”?
> Is it a coincidence that it kind of sounds like “Hello Kitty” when I plug it
> into Google Translate, but translates to, “I’m excited”?

Yes.  
I mean, it's a disastrous translation.  
Machine translations often cause things like that.

はろうきてぃ is just ハローキティ written in hiragana.  
The reason it's written in hiragana is because katakana doesn't look Japan-
ish.  
Especially for Japan-specific items like chopsticks, the seller probably
thinks hiragana matches it better.
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Playing around myself over at Google Translate, I find that はろうきてぃ with the
properly small **ぃ** translates to _"Hello"_. [See for yourself
here](https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E3%81%AF%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A6%E3%81%83).
I only get _"I'm excited"_ if I forget to make the ぃ small and enter it as a
full-sized **い** instead. [See
here](https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=%E3%81%AF%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84).

This is still a bizarre result, and I'm really not sure where the Google
translation database got this "correlation". Ultimately, it's like Spoonail
said: Google translate is **bloody awful** at translating in various
conditions -- including short strings.

Moral of the story: **Don't use Google Translate to try to study short
strings.** To be fair, it seems to do a better job with longer texts. But for
short things, _caveat lector_.
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