My name in Japanese

[abbyn]

I'm curious what mine would be also. Abigail or Abby. thanks!

 

[EscaFlowne]

continues to wait for someone to help with his name.

[I love i have a unique name but dang!!! i want it translated.]

 

[Elgin]

I used a name translator and it says tabarik is "Tabariku" lol now that wasn't to hard

 

[silver_ash86]

I'm aware that Kanji is actually Chinese characters?? so can a Chinese name be read in Japanese? as in the same characters?? It may sound weird though...

 

[Glenn]

Originally posted by silver_ash86
I'm aware that Kanji is actually Chinese characters?? so can a Chinese name be read in Japanese? as in the same characters?? It may sound weird though...

Yes, the same characters are used, and the Chinese pronunciation can also be approximated (I think that this would usually be the case). Here is a dialogue in which a Chinese girl speaks with an American boy and a Japanese boy (in Japanese). After she introduces herself with the Mandarin pronunciation she is referred to with the Japanese one, so I guess it just depends on the person. My guess would be that if a Chinese person were living in Japan they would use the Japanese pronuciation, but if they were visiting they would use the Chinese one.

 

[ChinChira]

i used my chinese kanji, which turned out in this order * East Evil Power Earth* dont ask me how it works but all the other cantonese people seem to think its right = )

 

[Musoka]

I havent translated my real name yet but the username I am currently using is tranlasted to Day Dreaner

Does anyone know how to translate names into japanese?

 

[SacredBlue]

To translate non-Japanese names you have to spell them out phonetically in katakana.

I'm curious what mine would be also. Abigail or Abby. thanks!

Abby would be アビ(Abi) or アッビ(Abbi), depending on how you pronounce your name.
Abigail would be アビゲル (Abigeru)

 

[Hachiko]

This is my actual name in katakana:
･ｸ･遑ｼ･鬣､･｢･/size]

Here's my username in kanji:
･ﾏ･ﾁｸ/SIZE]

 

[billiken]

Originally posted by Musoka
I havent translated my real name yet but the username I am currently using is translated to Day Dreamer

夢想家 {むそうか / musouka}

 

[Hachiko]

Originally posted by Musoka
I havent translated my real name yet but the username I am currently using is tranlasted to Day Dreaner

Does anyone know how to translate names into japanese?

Don't know if this will provide much, but here is a web site that can create kanji and katakana/hiragana from romanji, minna-san:

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC

 

[Musoka]

Thanks for the links guys, I found them very useful....only problem is I dont have japanese internet fonts installed on comp so I cant understand a thing on the websites or on this page

 

[Hachiko]

Right click your window, select Encoding, and Japanese. If you still don't have it...

Go to Windows Update,

Windows Update,

and download the Japanese install pack there. That should help ya.

 

[Musoka]

Thanks lots, that really helped me, before I wasnt able to do it for some reason and now I can ^_^

 

[Gaijinian]

If only my name were (was?) Garry...I'd make my Japanese name 下痢.

 

[Mycernius]

And Mine...

Maikeru

マイケル

Same here with mine. I found it on a web page. I occassionally sign things using it, if I am feeling awkward

 

[J C]

My Name

My name is Jonathan, which causes a couple of problems in Japanese. Firstly, "th" doesn't exist as a sound, so the closest katakana-isation would be ジョナサン (jyo-na-san), but the problem with that is that it leaves me with a san at the end of my name - very confusing for people - they might think I'm called jyo-na and incorrectly adding san to the end of my name.

So when I lived in Japan I decided to call myself ジョン (Jyo-n), but the problem with that after talking to my students (I was an English assistant teacher) is that Jon is quite often used as a name for dogs (like Lassie, Fido, etc) . Aaah, you just can't win sometimes..

My hanko had my surname on it and all my Japanese mates loved looking at it because they'd never seen one with katakana written on it. Had to be specially made, of course.

 

[Nicky]

My name: Nicky

ニッキー
ニキー
ニーキー
ニキ


I've opted for "ニキ" since running it through Breen's dicitonary gave me tons of kanji combinations. The others didn't, except ニキー which brought up 新希太 【にきーた】. Though my family occasionally will call me "nikita" I'd rather stick with Nicky. =/

丹季 Is the combination I'd liked the most.

I've also looked around on the net for sites that would give me a name that had a similar meaning to nicky and I found one that said "shouri". (I can't seem to find the link to that site)

I'll stick with plain ol' ニキ for now.

 

[Baleegh]

Hello every one.I really don't know much about japanese I just Learning japanese and i'am traying to write my name but every one know in Japanese there is now (L) so i need some one to write my name and my name is (Baleegh).

 

[Gaijinian]

Use an "r"

 

[J44xm]

I figure this might be a sufficient place to ask about name order. It's said that you needn't reverse your Western name order when giving your full name in Japanese. If you don't do this, though, how will Japanese folks know which is your given name and which is your surname? Is there a way to specify? Or does it even matter?

 

[doinkies]

Most Japanese people know that gaijin from Western countries have their given name first and their family name last. In fact, when they write in English, most of the time they will write their names in Western name order, like how Hiroyuki Nagashima does. Western names are usually written like this: ジョン･スミス (the dot indicates where there was a space in the original English). doinkies' real name written in Japanese would be ジェニファー･バーマン.

 

[godppgo]

I just found out my Japanese name is はやし つより

 

[breez]

Haa, I guess my name in katakana would be ラウリ which is Lauri.

 

[nice gaijin]

In response to some of the posts on the first page:

For "David" You could use
デービッド (de-biddo), or
デイビッド (deibiddo), or
デーブ (de-bu), or
デービー(de-bi-).

katakana names are usually meant to sound like the real name, so using
ダベ (dabe), or
ダウエ (daue, which is closer to how the name is transliterated into chinese), or
ダウイド (dauido)
are way off even though the romaji looks the same. It is also much more common to change v sounds to b. You can write デイヴィッド but personally I don't think it flows very well, and is awkward to read and write. just be sure you don't just デブ

David Aldwinckle legally changed his name when he attained japanese citizenship to the kanji 出人 (debito). I wouldn't recommend this method either; knowing the right pronunciation for a kanji name is difficult enough as it is, transliterating your western name only compounds the difficulties.