How to read this name "番藤茶太郎"?


Can anyone help me how to read his name and nickname?

name: 番藤茶太郎

nickname: 番茶

Checking with AI seems to give "Fujito Chataro" as name but also "Bandou
Chataro" and "Bancha" as his nickname,

Thanks




Practically speaking, this kanji only has one reading, namely "ばんどう ちゃたろう" (or
_Bandō Chatarō_ in Hepburn romanization). In theory, the [author could assign
a tricky reading](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/18344/5010) to this
kanji, but in such cases, there should be furigana attached to the kanji when
this name first appears in the work. Perhaps it was named in such a way that
the initial part of the name, 番茶, also happens to be [another
word](https://jisho.org/word/%E7%95%AA%E8%8C%B6).

"Fujito" is plain wrong. Current AI systems, including ChatGPT, struggle with
guessing the readings of kanji. Large language models like GPT learn from text
available on the Internet, but most Japanese text doesn't come with furigana,
making it challenging for these models to learn to guess word pronunciations
reasonably.

