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  Japanese calligraphy | Japanese name translation | Kanji name translation | Japanese symbols for names
Japanese calligraphy, Japanese name translation, Japanese symbols and kanji name translation.
All these kanji names were made in Japan with careful attention paid to the meaning and pronunciation.
Japanese names Japanese baby names Japanese family names
www.japanese-name-translation.com   (155 words)

  
  Japanese names
Since quite a few kanji have identical pronunciations, first names that are pronounced the same, are not necessarily written with the same kanji.
The names of foreigners are usually written in katakana.
Seimei handan or name diagnosis is a type of fortune telling concerning names.
www.japan-guide.com /e/e2271.html   (541 words)

  
 Behind the Name: Japanese Names
From Japanese 晶 (aki) "sparkle", 明 (aki) "bright" or 秋 (aki) "autumn" combined with 子 (ko) "child".
From Japanese 穂 (ho) "grain" and 高 (taka) "tall"...
From Japanese 協 "cooperation", 協 "capital", 郷 "village" or 杏 "apricot".
www.behindthename.com /nmc/jap.html   (1134 words)

  
 Japanese Garb
Even names like Anthony, Charles, and Edmund have meanings; it is just that they are lost on most people who don’t know the original languages of the names and their original forms.
This name was taken upon the genpuku (coming of age) ceremony, and was the one by which men were commonly known to their close friends and family members.
Names ending in ~suke or~nosuke (actually, either element was written with a variety of kanji), ~emon, or ~zaemon, though historical-sounding and aristocratic as they are, are in large part post-Period, as they came from a habit of naming people after titles (~suke was deputy governor, and ~emon was a guard title).
www.sengokudaimyo.com /miscellany/names.html   (3574 words)

  
  Japanese Boys' Names - Japanese Names - Issendai's Lair
Japanese boys' name lists are larded with names of historical and literary figures whose names are dead and gone.
Japanese Names - A short list of boys' and girls' names with meanings and kanji.
For example, Shishiwakamaru, the bloodthirsty swordsman of Yu Yu Hakusho, is named shishi (lion), waka (young), -maru (a common suffix for samurai boys' names).
www.issendai.com /rpgs/japanese-boys-names.shtml   (527 words)

  
 Japanorama: Japanese Names    
Japanese names consist of a family name, followed by a given name.
Commoners were not allowed to use family names until after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when they were allowed to create a surname or borrow an existing one.
Family names usually are written with two Chinese characters (kanji), which may or may not have related meanings.
www.japanorama.com /namesinj.html   (301 words)

  
  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Two ship names were submitted by the Minister of the Navy to the Lord Chamberlain who then presented the choices to the Emperor.
In 1902 the authority to name destroyers was delegated to the Minister of the Navy as well.
Prior to the end of World War II Japanese ship names were rendered in kanji, after the end of the war this tradition was abandoned in favor of hiragana to separate the perception of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces from the old navy.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Japanese_ship_naming_conventions   (935 words)

  
 Collected Precedents of the S.C.A.: Japanese
Names were formed from kanji combinations that made sense to the medieval Japanese mind.
Changing their order would be similar to changing a specific given name in a name submission to a completely different (though, perhaps, similar sounding) name.
Japanese names elements are created by combining Kanji characters, but the characters cannot be combined randomly; the characters that make up a name element only combine in groups that make conceptual sense to the medieval Japanese mind.
www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Japanese.html   (3926 words)

  
 Japanese names: Find out about Japanese names and get your name translated into Japanese too!
Japanese names are generally written in kanji, although hiragana and katakana are also sometimes used.
Japanese first names are as subject to the winds of fashion as Western first names.
A survey of Japanese baby names shows a tendency to be influenced by both the names of famous personalities (such as a new royal baby) and those of manga and anime characters.
www.japanese-name-translation.com /site/japanese_names.html   (405 words)

  
 Meanings of Japanese Names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
That's what happened to the Japanese since they imported Chinese characters to begin historical existence with, in 6th century (many traditions that we assume to be Japanese are actually imported from China: kanji, Buddhism, ikebana, bonsai, tea ceremony, and so on, even sushi and Shinto; click here for story and pictures).
It is unthinkable to the Japanese to dub their sons 'Yoshitsune', 'Nobunaga', 'Shingen', etc., since those kids are not likely to grow up to live up to the names.
Japanese clan names ending with '_be' from the year 400 on were usually born not as people's namesake but as workers' unions, such as Ayabe, Oribe, Hasebe, Mononobe, etc. '_tomo'-ending names signified jobs, too, as it meant specialized associations (see History of Japan).
www.geocities.com /nobukaze23/namae.htm   (2680 words)

  
 Notes on Japanese plant names
I am often told "your names look different from those I found in all the books" referring to almost every language with a non-roman script that we have romanised.
JAPANESE is perhaps one of the most difficult languages to handle because on one hand it has 3 different scripts which are used either separately or in combination (see file on
Unfortunately real people never use only katakana characters on their own, so a foreign scientist addressing Japanese people with katakana will convey - say for argument sake - 70% to 80% of the meaning across but may miss some little detail which would be contained in the most complex script called kanji.
www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au /Sorting/Notes_Japanese.html   (1018 words)

  
 Notes to Bird Glossary - Japanese orthography
Japanese possesses a complicated writing system, but possibly nowhere does it reach such complexity as it does in bird, animal and plant names.
Name refers also to a mythical monster with the head of a monkey, the body of a racoon-dog, the tail of a snake, the limbs of a tiger, and the voice of a White's thrush.
The Japanese may have lacked a name for these birds or the Japanese name was superseded by the Chinese for some reason.
www.cjvlang.com /Birds/intro7.html   (2039 words)

  
 Search: Female Japanese Names
Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Han characters).
Japanese Names for a Boy (Male) or a Girl (Female) including...
Most of the Japanese female names on this list are from an earlier generation?all the -ko, -e, and -yo names that were ragingly popular at the turn of the...
www.valentine.com /webmkt.valent/search/web/Female%2BJapanese%2BNames/-/-/1/-/-/-/1/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/302349/right   (316 words)

  
 languagehat.com: Comment on CHOOSING JAPANESE NAMES.
Japanese policy dictated that Koreans either could register a completely new Japanese family name unrelated to their Korean surname, or have their Korean family name, in Japanese form, automatically become their Japanese name.
Japanese conventions of creating given names also made their way into Korea, such as putting a character "子" (Japanese ko and Korean ja meaning "descendant" or "son") to make feminine names like "玉子" (Japanese Tamako and Korean Okja), although this practice is seldom seen in modern Korea, either North or South.
After the Japanese defeat in World War II and the liberation of Korea, the Name Restoration Order (조선 성명 복구령; 朝鮮姓名復舊令) was issued on October 23, 1946 by the United States military administration south of the 38th parallel north, enabling Koreans to restore their Korean names if they wished to.
www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2218   (2104 words)

  
 Topic: Japanese names and meanings- rate my faves! | Baby Names World
My daughter's name is Kaya and it is a name found in Japan (as well as many other countries.) She doesn't look Asian.
As for using a Japanese name in another culture, I would avoid male names that end with an "a" because it could be mistaken for a girl's name in Western societies.
Finally, as for adopting a Japanese child, it might be tough because not many Japanese people are giving their babies up for adoption like you would find in the less affluent neighboring countries.
www.babynamesworld.com /forum/topic51038.html   (1247 words)

  
 Your Name in Japanese :: Japanese Translator .co.uk
In Japanese, foreign names are normally written using the phonetic katakana alphabet.
If you get results that don't match the way you pronounce your name, you may be able to find an alternative spelling that does (e.g., Andria).
For example, the name Phoenix is often pronounced "fen-ix" instead of the more accurate "fee-nix".
www.japanesetranslator.co.uk /your-name-in-japanese   (453 words)

  
 Alderac Entertainment Group :: View topic - Japanese Names and their Meaning wanted
I also agree that many, many Rokugani names are untranslatable as given, either because they do not include kanji, or because they are not actually Japanese.
Part of the problem with names in Japanese and Chinese both is that they are highly...
There's the common names, of course, but it's not at all uncommon for a kanji name set to be unrecognizable to a reader until someone tells them how to say it.
www.alderac.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=621336   (1518 words)

  
 Takase Studios - Names in Japanese
Names are pronounced differently depending on where you are from and this may affect the translation.
For more information on translation methods visit How to Write Names in Japanese by Eri Takase which first appeared in her monthly column in Martial Arts Insider Magazine.
No problem, use Request A Name In Japanese which has options in both katakana and hiragana and in a few days you will be emailed the design.
www.takase.com /Names/NameInJapanese.htm   (458 words)

  
 Japanese Name Translation
In Japanese, there are 3 different scripts (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana) to write a word or names, and it all depends on what sort of name is going to be translated.
But, English names are usually translated with Onyomi reading, and if the sound of onyomi reading of a kanji character is the same as the sound of your name, its kanji character is allocated.
Although names written with Hiragana and Katakana are the mix of sound characters, thus has no meaning, but with kanji script, Takanori will write your name with the kanji which has both sound and meaning for each character.
www.dsfy.com /JapaneseNameTranslation.htm   (2109 words)

  
 Japanese Menu Names
Translated literally, some oshinagaki, or Japanese restaurant menus, could be mistaken for poetry, especially those that are penned in flowing brush strokes on gossamer rice paper scrolls.
Poetic names such as these evoke special images to the educated Japanese palate, but they also convey specific information about the food.
Because of this association of foxes, bean curd, and Inari shrines, the slightly sweet, soy-simmered, fried bean curd pouches that are stuffed with vinegared rice are known as inari-zushi.
www.bento.com /taste/tc-name.html   (1165 words)

  
 Translating Japanese names to Western ones by using the meaning [Archive] - Japan Forum
Female names are easier as the "ko" (=child) could just be omitted, so that most of the time 1 kanji is left.
I think people should also translate their name when they change language (among European languages) when it is possible.
Singaporian and HongKonger usually have English first names too, but in that case it is their real name (while in China, a second completely different one).
www.jref.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-3571.html   (1389 words)

  
 Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Holy Cow, did I end up in a bad place now! (Re: Dokdo)
The Japanese did many truely vile things during the occupation, but they also brought some progress to a county that was locked in the 14th century.
Many took Japanese names and learned Japanese to gain an elite status in society (much the same way people learn English now, or the English elite used to learn French), and illegal migration to Japan was huge.
The majority of people had already chosen Japanese names anyway, and you are completely ignoring that it was illegal for the first decade of collonial rule for a Korean to adopt a Japanese name.
www.eslcafe.com /forums/korea/viewtopic.php?p=516653   (2260 words)

  
 Japanese Corporation Names :: TechJapan :: English news on technology from Japan
Inside, we investigate two main areas for each company: what the characters that compose their names actually mean, and how the companies actually got their names.
The Japanese corporation is a prime example of this -- just look at what happened in Detroit after the Japanese car was introduced to the American public.
Well Panasonic means ____ in Japanese." Note that all "Name Breakdowns" are to be taken lightly -- just like the name "Smith" doesn't necessarily mean someone is a flsmith, Japanese names aren't meant to be taken literally.
www.techjapan.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&sid=847&file=article&pageid=1   (735 words)

  
 Cal Poly Pomona
The Japanese syllable is based on five basic vowel sounds; a, i, u, e, and o.
Japanese has an open-syllable sound system, which means that most syllables end in a vowel.
Japanese is a pitched accent language, which means that after a stressed syllable, the pitch falls.
www.csupomona.edu /~pronunciation/japanese.html   (219 words)

  
 Japanese Pokemon Names — FactMonster.com
Japanese has an “open-syllable sound pattern.” This means that every syllable ends in a vowel.
A syllable in Japanese may be simply a vowel sound, or it may be a consonant sound combined with a vowel sound.
For instance, the Japanese name for Drowzee, “Suripu,” is actually the English word for “sleep.” The “L” sound has become an “R” sound.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0862591.html   (299 words)

  
 Japanese baby names / Japanese names / Japanese baby girl and boy names
Japanese baby names / Japanese names / Japanese baby girl and boy names
Each list of Japanese names can be sorted by Japanese baby girl names or Japanese baby boy names.
In addition to Japanese baby names, at Baby Name World you will find thousands of other unique and popular male and female baby names and their meaning sorted by origin.
www.babynameworld.com /japanese.asp   (74 words)

  
 Names in Japanese Kanji Symbols : CafePress.com
Japanese symbols are not just beautiful, but also carry each a special meaning.
And, as far as possible, we have also been careful to choose Japanese kanji symbols for your name that are appropriately masculine or feminine.
Buy a single product directly from this store, or buy an image of your name in Japanese kanji, then go back to Cafepress and use it to personalize as many products as you like.
www.cafepress.com /japanese_names   (190 words)

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