Daily, thousands of people access suki desu to see a list of Japanese names and their meanings. Unfortunately, it is impossible to create a complete list of Japanese names with all meanings as the possibilities are infinite. In addition to there being several names with the same pronunciations, the ideograms that make up the name completely change the meaning.
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If you have some basic knowledge of the Japanese language and can get the Japanese ideograms of the name you want to know the meaning of, you can easily look it up in the jisho dictionary and find out the meaning of each ideogram. That’s right, a name can have several meanings from each ideogram that makes up the name. And what if you don’t have the ideogram?
Generally, people know absolutely nothing about the Japanese language and just want to know the meaning of a name or choose a name. In this case, the person can write the name they want to know the meaning of in a romanized way using the filter or hashtag #names on jisho.
They will be presented with a huge list of names in Japanese, you will notice that each ideogram represents a sound, so a Japanese first or last name is usually composed of 2 ideograms. Identify the ideograms that form the name you want and research each of them individually to find out the meaning.
Of course, when searching for a romanized name on jisho, it will present various names written with different ideograms. So you will probably have to search several identical names to determine which meaning is best for you and for the name you chose and finally use it for what you want.
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And what if I don’t have a name in mind?
When you don’t have a name in mind, you can first look up the meaning of an ideogram and use it to search and list names that use that ideogram. For example: I want a name that means love, so I should search with the hashtag #names the ideogram 愛 (ai).
To know the ideogram that means a certain thing, you should write the word in English and use the hashtag #kanji. You will be presented with several options and can also select the kanji to know details and the readings for “name” that it offers.
When searching for names that use a certain ideogram or kanji, the first pages of the search will present names with only that ideogram and most of the time with one syllable. Just move on to other pages to see more interesting names that use other ideograms.
Japanese names can vary quite a bit. There are no rules in the choices of ideograms and readings for names, but there is a pattern and popular and common choices in Japanese names. To delve deeper into the subject, I will leave a list of articles below that can help you:
Japanese Nicknames Derived from Names
Now that you know a little about the choices of Japanese names, what do you think about choosing nicknames? Yes, Japanese nicknames are quite peculiar.
Generally, Japanese nicknames are chosen with combinations, abbreviations, and alterations of the personal name, or also by adding treatment suffixes.
If you want to delve into Japanese nicknames, we have a complete article that you can read by clicking here >> Everything about Japanese Nicknames! We also have an article about Korean Nicknames.
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