Comments on: Your name in Kanji

By: kayleemarie

kayleemarie — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:04:18 +0000

I've made a Kanji nickname that I use for avatar communities and accounts. I've always found the meaning cute.
Chiyonatsu, which, if the website I got it from is correct, when used with the Kanji 千代夏 means thousand-generation summer. c: It always reminds me of fireworks and lemonade and meteor showers.

My name also seems to read KeiriiMarii. <3

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:57:47 +0000

What a lovely name you have! ^_^

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:25:02 +0000

Haha, I have a very simple name, Hannah. Which translates to Hana, and Hana is also the kanji for flower or nose. I like to represent myself in Japanese with the kanji for flower. I've learnt it off by heart now and I put it on my artwork!

By: kirin

kirin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:06:31 +0000

Kanji for the sound of "Ja" is not good. 蛇 (snake) 邪 (evil)…maybe 雀 or 舎 will do…but these kanji should not always read Ja.
For the sound of "Nin" maybe 忍 or 任 or 人…but you see it means so bad if you combine 邪人or 蛇人 for example. Don't do that.

By: jianing

jianing — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:50:53 +0000

I have a chinese name 佳柠(jianing) and i was told it was read Karei, but im not very fond of the sound ._<

is it possible to make a new name with ja-nin ?

thanks kirin-san!

By: melanie

melanie — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:26:50 +0000

Haha I should be the one thanking you! Pls do keep this learn Japanese page going! It has helped me alot!

By: kirin

kirin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:00:03 +0000

Thank you for sharing that story with me. I understand many people who study Japanese also say Kanji is the most difficult thing. It's like I was wasting an opportunity to learn Chinese. OK~~, I have advantage, Kanji is no problem to me (of course, I'm Japanese lol), thank you Melanie.

By: melanie

melanie — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:39:16 +0000

Oh i see.. Thank you!

I think you should learn chinese! Yeah, you would have advantage. Many people can speak chinese but can't write chinese characters mainly because of the many strokes in a word. But since kanji and chinese is kinda similar, i don't think you will have that problem. Chinese is my 2nd language so i can speak and write it well that's why i prefer writing kanji to katakana.^^

By: kirin

kirin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:22:13 +0000

Oh, you were looking for your name in Kanji? Yes, the one you found above is Katakana, not Kanji.
Melanie can be any ways…for example 芽羅似. It's a combination of kanji from it's sound of 'me' 'la' and 'ni'.

Japanese and Chinese share many same characters, because our culture is much influenced by China in a long history. That's why I think I should learn Chinese, I have advantage, right? ^ ^

By: melanie

melanie — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:12:08 +0000

Oh i just want to ask another thing. After browsing many websites, I realised that the name i found in the website, is actually not kanji but katakana?? Then i went to search again for my kanji name and i got this: 目良似. I don't actually like it but i don't know if there's any other options? I'm currently self learning Japanese so it's really hard

After reading many people's comments on your blog, I realised that generally people have a harder time writing kanji. Personally i find it harder to write hiragana/katakana. Maybe its because i learn chinese? I find that kanji and chinese are quite similar. For example, January is 一月 in both kanji and chinese.