Can anyone help me with my name. Don't know what my last name means but first name means "snow hibiscus". I know that snow is yuki in Japanese but what about hibiscus. It is the name of a type of flower that has big showy pedals. Arigatou gozaiimasu!
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:
Online dictionary I use and my electronic dictionary only shows hibiscus as having katakana reading so your outta luck if it doesnt have a kanji. Unless someone has a bigger more comprehensive Japanese dictionary that may have an uncommonly used character for it.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject:
dochira wrote:
Hmm, I think we need kokuou for confirmation. I googled "hibiscus Japanese kanji" and the first link had this:
��: fu (on-yomi), hasu (kun-yomi)
In a different link there is:
"...fusou (�}�K), which means hibiscus..."
my dictionary is says �}�K is a way to mention Japan. Literally the land east of China.
also ���u means cotton rose or lotus but �� alone has no reference to plants in my electric dictionary. Just an old meaning thats not used anymore meaning was complicated and too difficult for me to translate from Japanese : /
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:
dochira wrote:
Hmm, I think we need kokuou for confirmation. I googled "hibiscus Japanese kanji" and the first link had this:
��: fu (on-yomi), hasu (kun-yomi)
In a different link there is:
"...fusou (�}�K), which means hibiscus..."
Well, I've checked my dictionaries, etc., and I get what everyone else has:
�n�C�r�X�J�X (haibisukasu)
Although, I did look it up in my �L���� and it says that it's part of the hollyhock family of flowers. Hollyhock in Japanese is �� (aoi), and this character (and reading), I can say with confidence, is used for girls' names. I really think it's a pretty name.
���m��(mamechishiki): �� is the third character in 'sunflower': ������ (himawari)
As for �� being read �͂�(hasu), I had to look it up in my �L���� because all I got elsewhere was �@, which is the character usually written. It means 'lotus'. Not too sure if it's of the same family, though.
HTH,
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:
Rats. Maybe it is only written in katakana.
Edit: After reading both darkflame's and kokuou's responses, I guess that is the case. Which makes me wonder if hibiscus is even found natively in Japan?
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:
I wish my Surnames meaning translated to a real Japnese surename and now Girls given names. Wanted to get a hanko that said somethin other than �W�F�t on it that wasnt jsut a pretty picture ;p
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:
dochira wrote:
Edit: After reading both darkflame's and kokuou's responses, I guess that is the case. Which makes me wonder if hibiscus is even found natively in Japan?
man i shoulda checked out this thread before about hibiscus. in okinawa, it also is only written in katakana. they MAY have call it soething else in kanji in japan, but i know that in the south, its in katakana. the it is the official okinawa flower, the hibiscus, because it is so predominate there. as a matter of fact, the okinawa kimono (is actually called the bingata) with the full regalia, the headdress is suppose to be a hibiscus.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:32 am Post subject:
kokuou wrote:
Yes. I actually HAD to get a hanko to open a bank account in Japan when I was there last. I still have it, too.
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Yeah a hanko is required for some offical documents. Especially bank accounts. My bank allows you to use a hanko with any character on it as long as you continue uding the same one you started with. Some smaller banks dont even allow that though. I was really hoping to get the meaning of my name but I guess im outta luck.
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