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Japanese name pronunciations

pandaatlarge said:
OMG this thread is so funny, so funny that I want to play a game here, which is called guess who he/she is.

For example, can anyone guess whose name means "Ring Tree Bright Kid"? How about "Palace Field Wisdom/Knowledge Kid"?

And I just thought of a really funny one (at least I think so). Can any non-Chinese speaker guess who " Old Great Group" is?
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Ring Tree Bright Kid would probably be Akiko Suzuki, 鈴木 明子, Suzuki is actually more accurately translated as Bell wood, bright child suits her very much though, second one would probably be Miyahara Satoko but I don't think her last name means Palace Field, the first character is palace but the second character means something like original, her first name means wise child
 
CarneAsada said:
I always liked the sound of her name in Mandarin! Dignified is what I'd use to describe it too. Also it sounds well in my parents' native Hakka, not always the case for some Korean/Japanese names.
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It does translate really well, it's great name, and it's nice to meet a Hakka person, I know a few in real life, one of them tried to teach me how to say have you eaten yet? in Hakka but I butchered it haha

I'll do another, this time for Takahiko Kozuka, 小塚 崇彦, the first character of Kozuka means small, the second character is a bit more ominous, it can be translated as mound but it has to with like burial mound, cemeteries. His first name's first character translates as esteem or honour and the second character means elegant (which is he is!) but together the two characters mean something like honoured boy (child) or prince in Japanese
 
I love that characters in names have a meaning on their own... my name is sounding preatty boring right now.

I'll do another, this time for Takahiko Kozuka, 小塚 崇彦, the first character of Kozuka means small, the second character is a bit more ominous, it can be translated as mound but it has to with like burial mound, cemeteries.
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Sounds like a not very nice name for a kid :slink:

What about Shoma and Sota.
 
cruzceleste said:
I love that characters in names have a meaning on their own... my name is sounding preatty boring right now.


Sounds like a not very nice name for a kid :slink:

What about Shoma and Sota.
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It's his last name! His first name means honoured boy which is a great name for him

For Shoma Uno, 宇野 昌磨 (Uno Shoma), first character means house or world/universe, second character means area/field or wild, his first name Shoma, first character means prosperous and the last character means mill. So together it could mean wild world properous mill or house field properous mill haha

Sota Yamamoto, 山本草太 (Yamamoto Sota), first character of Yamamoto means mountain, second means something like base so it means mountain base, or base of the mountain, his first name Sota, the first character means grass and the second character means too as in like too much in Mandarin however Google tells me that in Japanese, the last character means thick, so his first name would translate as thick grass
 
BTW, the Russian translation to English that google did was pretty funny...and the Winner of the Ladies Nationals is....RADIO NEWS! You cant make this stuff up....
Chris whose mother is as lovely as the Moon
 
^^ you need to put English translation of that word there as well ;)
or maybe they can copy and paste and use google translate for themselves:biggrin:
 
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