Originally Posted by sunowaka (Post 814770)

I met West Berg.
He said 西山 by the self introduction.

Originally Posted by steven (Post 814964)

I'm not quite sure what all the fuss is about here... sure some names are quite impossible to write in Kanji, but that's where you just have to get creative. Like for a tee sound you can use 茶 and stuff like that.

And with all due respect to younger people, some of their names are very hard to read as well (kanji wise).

You can always do a hybrid thing like ボブ三郎 or something like that.

I wouldn't think this is anything to get offended about... quite the contrary I think it's all in good fun. I think it's a nice gesture from the topic creator and maybe everyone pood all over it from the start.

Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery (Post 814978)

There's actually kind of a weird coincidence with my name, "Dylan."
Dylan is a name of Welsh decent which has several loose translations such as "of the sea," or "son of the sea," etc.

There are some variations for Kanji with the name Dylan, and some of the ones I've seen are:

1: 海: Sea
2: 嵐: Storm (as the second kanji to make up Dylan, the other being 慈, mercy/merciful).

So apparently the actual origin of my name and a few potential kanji that can make up my name both deal with water.

Originally Posted by MMM (Post 814983)

Given 1000 chances, never would I come up with the pronunciation of "Dylan" from those two kanji. That's my point.

Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery (Post 814986)

The example I gave was just from the most popular results I've seen. I couldn't tell you any different, as my kanji skills are horrible.

Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery (Post 814986)

The example I gave was just from the most popular results I've seen. I couldn't tell you any different, as my kanji skills are horrible.

Originally Posted by steven (Post 814964)

I'm not quite sure what all the fuss is about here... sure some names are quite impossible to write in Kanji, but that's where you just have to get creative. Like for a tee sound you can use 茶 and stuff like that.

And with all due respect to younger people, some of their names are very hard to read as well (kanji wise).

You can always do a hybrid thing like ボブ三郎 or something like that.

I wouldn't think this is anything to get offended about... quite the contrary I think it's all in good fun. I think it's a nice gesture from the topic creator and maybe everyone pood all over it from the start.

Originally Posted by Prostak (Post 814981)

ヘブライ語でMaayanの名前は水源を意味します。

その名前を持つ外国人が "泉" 漢字を （№ 85.5）使用する ことが できますか 自分の名前を書き込むために?:confused:

Originally Posted by Makio (Post 814908)

sorry coz i'm still learning japanese hiragana and a little bit of kanji oni so i duno which kanji = yellow. Plus, i duno how yellow in hiragana called what so i tot that one you might understand so i just type in the chinese words. My japanese sensei only taught me the timing ( ex. kin yobi, moku yobi) those thing only so please forgive me ^^
my sir name is ( yellow )
my name is ( world ) i think it might be pronounce as " se kai "
so what name should it be ?
please help me out :D onegai shimasu !

Originally Posted by steven (Post 814964)

I'm not quite sure what all the fuss is about here... sure some names are quite impossible to write in Kanji, but that's where you just have to get creative. Like for a tee sound you can use 茶 and stuff like that.

And with all due respect to younger people, some of their names are very hard to read as well (kanji wise).

You can always do a hybrid thing like ボブ三郎 or something like that.

I wouldn't think this is anything to get offended about... quite the contrary I think it's all in good fun. I think it's a nice gesture from the topic creator and maybe everyone pood all over it from the start.