My name in Japanese

thtl wrote:

Does you own culture have names with no meaning? Personally I doubted if there is a culture which has names with no meaning, however absurd the meaning may seem to us.

there are people in my culture has a name with no meaning. but MOSTLY there are name with meaning. my name actually has no meaning. but its pronounciation and spelling is very close to one term (religous term) which the term means "blessing". but in my language, there is no such term(my name) exists. Some people in my culture prefer to put name on their child based on their creativity. Sometimes the name mix between 2 cultures- losing its meaning. It seems like it evolve with time and modernization. Its better to have a name with meaning. I just use that term to express the meaning of my name.

alfarez wrote:is every Japanese's name has a meaning? is it compulsory to put a Japanese name with meaning? are there Japanese's name with no meaning?

not really. nowadays, japanese sometimes name their kids with western sounding names (maria, alice, nino, etc), altho it may have a meaning in the west, in jpn, it don't mean anything...

niko2x wrote:not really. nowadays, japanese sometimes name their kids with western sounding names (maria, alice, nino, etc), altho it may have a meaning in the west, in jpn, it don't mean anything...

interesting....

isn't the meaning usually derived from the juxtaposition of kanji, that is if it's a japanese name to begin with....guess if you had a name that didn't have a kanji "spelling", so to speak, that would not apply.

Like ayumi ‚ ‚ä‚Ý.

All names with kanji have meaning, when you check the meaning for each kanji separately. I don't know if they all have a meaning when you read all the kanji of a first name or last name.

alfarez wrote:

there are people in my culture has a name with no meaning. but MOSTLY there are name with meaning. my name actually has no meaning. but its pronounciation and spelling is very close to one term (religous term) which the term means "blessing". but in my language, there is no such term(my name) exists. Some people in my culture prefer to put name on their child based on their creativity. Sometimes the name mix between 2 cultures- losing its meaning. It seems like it evolve with time and modernization. Its better to have a name with meaning. I just use that term to express the meaning of my name.

Live and learn, I suppose, and I stand corrected.

niko2x wrote:not really. nowadays, japanese sometimes name their kids with western sounding names (maria, alice, nino, etc), altho it may have a meaning in the west, in jpn, it don't mean anything...

In this case wouldn't the name takes on the meaning of its origin? I suppose it is possible some Japanese parents uses a gaijin name because they like the sound of it, not because of its meaning. Nevertheless my point is that the root of the name has a meaning.

Tu_triky wrote:

interesting....

isn't the meaning usually derived from the juxtaposition of kanji, that is if it's a japanese name to begin with....guess if you had a name that didn't have a kanji "spelling", so to speak, that would not apply.

Some Japanese uses the hiragana form even when the kanji form is available. For instance Ishida Yuriko's name in Japanese is Î“c‚ä‚èŽq where ‚ä‚è (meaning the flower Lily) can be written as •S‡ in Kanji.

tabana wrote:Like ayumi ‚ ‚ä‚Ý.

All names with kanji have meaning, when you check the meaning for each kanji separately. I don't know if they all have a meaning when you read all the kanji of a first name or last name.

According to my teacher all Kanji names (surnames and given names) have meanings. Sometimes they can be rather strange, such as Abiko (Kanji = ‰ä‘·Žq) meaning 'my grandson'. My favourite artiste, Ms. Ueno Juri, given name is written in Kanji as Ž÷—¢, meaning a village or countryside full of trees.

Interesting. Thanks. :D

alfarez wrote:is every Japanese's name has a meaning? is it compulsory to put a Japanese name with meaning? are there Japanese's name with no meaning?

not all japanese names have meaning... but most parents when naming their child will think about what kanji/characters to use for their child's name. even if it's just phonetically... people will probably at least think about it. I think in most cultures the parents think about their child's name at least a lil bit.... my middle name is —R”ü(yumi). First character is used with the word "free"(Ž©—Rj and the second kanji means beauty/beautiful. but... for the most part my parents picked that name because my mother's name is yoshie and they took the Y from her name for my middle name. My first name is michelle and my father's name is michael, and they took the m from his name for my first name.

Hi, I just learned that my name (Richard) means "brave power"

any ideas how to translate it to japanese?

the best I found was Isigayoku Chikara.

but then again this is based on jdorama's dict.

help guys!

ikadoodledoo wrote:Hi, I just learned that my name (Richard) means "brave power"

any ideas how to translate it to japanese?

the best I found was Isigayoku Chikara.

but then again this is based on jdorama's dict.

help guys!

brave = '—E' onyomi: yu. kunyomi: isamu
power = '—Í' onyomi: riki, ryoku. kunyomi: chikara

Yu-ryoku or Yu-riki sounds cool, although it's hard to find who has this Japanese name, because Yu is boy's/girl's name and Riki is also boy's name, and adding these two names makes kind of rare.

Here's a tricky one (or maybe not), my daughter's name is Nerissa, which means "Daughter of the Sea". I'd love to see how this one turns out, heh.

my first name is Giselle.....
and i just found out a great site for translating names in japanese
but don't know if its true...at least its interesting! :victory:

for translating name in japanese:
http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/969/

for translating name in kanji:
http://www.japanesetranslator.co.uk/your-name-in-japanese/

:woot:

my name is 'aisyah. the meaning: the happy life.

in japanese, read as aishiafu. does anyone know the meaning? :)

My name means beautiful with birth. Unfortunately I still lack Japanese kanji/vocabulary knowledge to know how my name would be in Japanese. Any help ?

my name is martinez..what does my name mean?

Tenshigure wrote:Here's a tricky one (or maybe not), my daughter's name is Nerissa, which means "Daughter of the Sea". I'd love to see how this one turns out, heh.

Please correct me if I'm wrong someone, but I think Daughter of the Sea would be Umi no Musume which in kanji would be ŠC‚Ì–º@or maybe a more abstract meaning, Mermaid l‹›

I hope I was helpful ^_^'

As for 'Martinez' in Japanese you would write it as ƒ}ƒ‹ƒ`ƒlƒX@
but I don't know what that name means sorry :sweat:


I don't know how the grammer would be with Beautiful wth birth... beautiful would be utsukushii and birth is umare.. Utsukushii no umare? Ah I'm sorry.. I don't know...

And I don't know your name either Aisya-chan.. gomen!

my name is suize ? what does that mean

suzzy wrote:my name is suize ? what does that mean

you would write it as ƒXƒCƒ[ but I don't know what it means sorry :shakehead: