Tokachirikatakiku = Nathalie

[Juicy]

JAPANESE NAME- Take each letter of your name and substitute it with the japanese sound to the right of the letter. Names might be kinda long. lol

A- ka
B- zu
C- mi
D- te
E- ku
F- lu
G- ji
H- ri
I- ki
J- zu
K- me
L- ta
M- rin
N- to
O- mo
P- no
Q- ke
R- shi
S- ari
T- chi
U- do
V- ru
W- mei
X- na
Y- fu
Z- zi

 

[GlassOnion]

Arikikuruku

Interesting. Too bad Japanese is ideographic.

 

[Sheba]

Mekachikiku

 

[Boxer*Mom]

Too bad Japanese is ideographic.

what does that mean?

 

[nedim]

Tokutekirin

 

[avenlee]

tekuzuzukiku

 

[avenlee]

what does that mean?

ideographic is writing in symbols, not letters. Although I thought that ideographics was more associated with Chinese writings.

 

[Boxer*Mom]

Oh ok. Yeah that doesn't look like symbols to me. Do they have more than one alphabet then that does use symbols?

 

[Juicy]

Ideographics
http://www.jimstephan.net/gal/Japanese _words.jpg

 

[beagle_lovergirl]

Chirikakiari

 

[bubbatd]

ZUDOZUZUKA ... Bubba JISHIRINRINFU ..... Grammy

 

[minismom]

I'm Mekachirifu

 

[CanadianK9]

Zushifuto

 

[GlassOnion]

Oh ok. Yeah that doesn't look like symbols to me. Do they have more than one alphabet then that does use symbols?

They're not symbols because those are the sounds that are related with the symbol.

But your name wouldn't be written as a bunch of symbols strewn together either as there'd be collections of a few symbols.

I wish I knew more about it so I could explain it better but I know that Japanese, Taiwanese (I think that's how you say it..), Korean, and Chinese are ideographic from my History of the Global Village (AKA geography and globalization) class.


We were talking about how the languages are a lot alike except for the spoken language. That way any Chinese person could read Japanese (not speak/understand it but still read it) and vice versa.

In a semester I should be able to explain it better cause I'm taking Japanese (always wanted to take that class). Does no good right now though

 

[GlassOnion]

Ok I looked it up in this book I have "Japanese for Busy People" and it says that Japanese language is divided up into three parts. Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. If I understand this correctly all three parts work together to form a sentence, like a verb, subject, pronoun, etc but they're spaced out intermittently throughout the sentence.

Each letter has a symbol for it (which is different from Chinese because Chinese has symbols for ideas and words and so you have to memorize thousands of symbols but apparently Japanese is a combination of Chinese and English in that it has an alphabet but still the ideographic thing).

A picture to clarify that a bit:

And incidentally we live in Amerika, are Amerika-jin, and speak Eigo...


Starting to have doubts about that class now.

 

[Dani]

English words/non-Japanese words are spelt in Katakana, with a similar sound to the English word/non-Japanese word.

For example,

television= te re bi (in Katakana)

and a name: John San= Ji yo n (in Katakana) Sa n (in Hiragana, because is a Japanese word)

Here is a Katakana/hiragana link:

http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/shape_k.html

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

Arikarinkatochirika = Samantha

 

[sparks19]

chikatofuka

Lol i swear to God thats what it is lol

 

[Saje]

My name, Shara, is pronounced She ra in Japanese and is written シェラ
For those of you who can read that. You can also have your named written in Kanji (Chinese style characters) there are many different ways to write one name in Kanji and parents pick them by symbolism.

 

[nedim]

chikatofuka

Lol i swear to God thats what it is lol

hahaha