do you mean kanji?I have a character named Koyama Ryuu whose name I'd like to post on her roleplaying profile in Japanese. However, I've gotten several different transliterations that I don't want to post here because online stuff can be wildly inaccurate. How would her name be written in calligraphy? I'd like it as an image as well, if possible.
there are three sets.I should have specified that I meant the character set in which one would, usually, write a name.
Okay. I'd like both names, which are in Eastern (surname-leading) order, in the most easily-readable character set for those unfamiliar with Japanese, like myself. I know katakana is hard to read because I have a friend who took beginning Japanese and he couldn't read my Japanese Magic: the Gathering cards, which were in katakana.
You mean you are going to use it as a female name? It's a male name. (At least almost all native speakers interpret so.)I have a character named Koyama Ryuu whose name I'd like to post on her roleplaying profile in Japanese.
Do you mean given names?By the way, surnames written in Katakana are common among the older generations as my mother, aunts, and grandmothers have it.
Yes. Thanks.Do you mean given names?
It's the same also to me. I pointed out that the source of the information "A lot of times in books I see ... katakana as the first name" is unreliable, or at least biased as examples.I just wanted to show another information. That's why I said 'By the way'.
Hiromi, Kaoru, Akira, Makoto, Masami,,,, the same goes for Japanese. Ryū isn't in this group, though. Anyway, then I recommend using a kanji name 竜 or 龍.That phenomenon isn't exclusive to Western name translations either as Evelyn, which is thought of as a woman's name, started out as a man's name.
I won't deny your experience as it is. But truth is truth. You can find it as below: 今の大体70歳以降の女性に多く見られるカタカナの名前というのは... - Yahoo!知恵袋I pointed out that the source of the information "A lot of times in books I see ... katakana as the first name" is unreliable
I'm not trying to discuss popular names in a specific period, but just saying there was a time when Katakana given names were common and females with those names did exist, not only in fictions, whether you like the fact or not. That's what I am saying about truth and 'another information'.I do really want to know the basis of your judgement that those names are common other than a stranger's subjective impression found in the web.
I'm not trying to discuss popular names in a specific period, but just saying there was a time when Katakana given names were common and females with those names did exist, not only in fictions, whether you like the fact or not. That's what I am saying about truth and 'another information'.
Is there any difference from my "women in their 90's or 100's" example?just saying there was a time when Katakana given names were common and females with those names did exist
It is a fact, unfortunately.By the way, it's interesting that you have never met women named in Katakana while I can easily find those people in my city.
No, of course.Is there any difference from my "women in their 90's or 100's" example?
I agreed with that, as to these years. Aside that, I showed another information that there was a time when people were given a Katakana name commonly in their 'real lives'. That's all.katakana given names are common only in some kind of fictions. Kanji is the most common, and katakana is less common even than hiragana in real life.
OK. I definitely didn't mean you are lying. Again, I say "I don't deny your experience as it is".It is a fact, unfortunately.