Help Can't find these kanji in my dictionary

ApterousAngel

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20 Apr 2009

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• 20 Apr 2009

• #1

I found a song that I want to try to translate, but the first two kanji in the song don't even appear in my character dictionary.
Here's a scan of the two kanji:

It's apparently pronounced "sora", but I'm pretty sure it doesn't say "sky"..
Does anyone know what it says?

 

JimmySeal

Tubthumper

5 Mar 2006

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• 20 Apr 2009

• #2

らくえん

 

hirashin

Sempai

Donor

8 Apr 2004

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• 20 Apr 2009

• #3

I guess the songwriter regards the sky as rakuen (paradaise). Songwriters often do such a thing.

Hirashin

 

Putrefaction

不幸中の幸い. . . がない.

7 Nov 2008

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• 20 Apr 2009

• #4

I may be wrong, but is that "pleasing garden"?

 

Elizabeth

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22 Apr 2003

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• 21 Apr 2009

• #5

Putrefaction said:

I may be wrong, but is that "pleasing garden"?

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Paradise, pleasure garden... (or just all in a name, which could end up being the restaurant, office, movie etc.) ;-)

 

Sirius2B

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3 Aug 2006

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• 23 Apr 2009

• #6

ApterousAngel said:

I found a song that I want to try to translate, but the first two kanji in the song don't even appear in my character dictionary.
Here's a scan of the two kanji:
View attachment 7875
It's apparently pronounced "sora", but I'm pretty sure it doesn't say "sky"..
Does anyone know what it says?

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I am beginner in Japanese... but I think that japanese have several forms of "sora".

空 "sora" as the (empty) space, sky.

宇宙 ... I think that in some context, "space" (uchuu) could be pronounced "sora".

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The first characters that you displayed are (as a user before me said): "pleasant/music" and "garden/park" (if the external radical is completely closed in the upper part).

So, I will not be surprised if this "sora" will be "heaven" in the sense of "paradise".

But I speculate.

Regards.

 

ApterousAngel

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20 Apr 2009

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• 26 Apr 2009

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• #7

Alright. Thanks, guys.