japanese tattoo
 

In a few weeks I will be getting a tattoo of my middle name- Haruko.
I would like it written in japanese but I would like to make sure it is written correctly.
can someone please help me?
thank you

春子
はる子
晴子
治子
　
These are all read 'Haruko' and there can be some more ways to write it, too. Only you should know which one is appropriate since you say it's your middle name.

im a bit baffled, you say it is your middle name but you don't know how to write it? haruko is a japanese name but i guess it could be a name in other languages. surely if it is a japanese name given to you as your middle name your parents would know the characters they chose for it??

It is my middle name, my grandmother named me. She is Japanese but since coming to the U.S over 60 years ago she has forgotten her native language and how to write it :(
trust me I wish she could have taught me the language and more about the culture.
anyway thanks for the help everyone :)

Thanks for the help but i'm a little confused. There are many different ways to write Haruko? Since I can't get any help from my grandmother about her naming me (she has forgotten japanese and plus she is not doing good, health wise) how would I find out which one to use?
could I just pick anyone?

you can pick any one you like then, if you haven't been given kanji already

in all of these 子 = child so i'll just tell you the others

春子　= spring (as in the season)
はる子 = this is hiragana so no meaning, personally wouldn't choose this one
晴子 = clear up/clear
治子 = reign; be at peace; calm down; subdue; quell; govt; cure; heal; rule; conserve

there are others that are not regular/common and Japanese might find hard to read correctly such as 美子 (the first character means beautiful but to read it is はる, while it is a documented reading of the character, would be very strange to Japanese from my understanding. i\'m sure nagoyankee can confirm that. there is nothing wrong with it though, i know of a child called 青空 which would normally be read あおぞら but he is actually せいき so

at the end of the day it is your choice. copy and past はる into this page: WWWJDIC: Kanji Selection and it will show you the characters that have that pronunciation.
you could also make the name 3 characters は・る・こ so feel free to chuck those sounds into the kanji search engine on that site and come up with a name you like.

I have the opposite reaction. If you are getting a permanent seal on your body in dedication to your legacy of having a Japanese middle name, I would make damn sure it was written the way it is intended, and not just toss はる in a dictionary and add 子　to it.

張る子 would be kind of a funny name.

はるこ is your safest bet, as it is "meaning-free", but no one could tell you that you were wrong.

Could you ask your grandmother what the name\'s meaning is? At least that way, you can have an idea as to which Kanji to use for it.

Edit: Ignore what I said there. ^^;

i couldn\'t imagine anyone getting 張る子 besides that is assuming NYHaruko would be stupid enough to just choose any character that matches the sounds MMM. i think that is not fair to NYHaruko. I\'m sure NYHaruko would pick lovely characters to match the sounds. Obviously finding the intended meaning would be good but i think you are giving NYHaruko much less credit than deserved. はるこ will do the job that is true.