My Kanji Name

[jaelie]

Well, seeing Dave's kanji name made me curious about what mine would be. I've always been fascinated by unique names, and this was no exception. When I was growing up I would make up names, and I also kept a list of names that caught my fancy. I never lacked for ideas for names of characters for my D&D games either, although some characters ended up being prefered over others, cool name not withstanding. I imagine those lists are in my parents' attick with all my school stuff. I wonder if my old D&D characters are up there, too?

It's pretty straight forward on how to find your kanji name. First you break down the meaning of your name to it's roots. For example, my name, Jennifer (which I hate, by the way, due to the fact that it is so common, and the root of my never ending quest for cool names), was Guinevere or the Welsh Gwenhwyfar. Broken to it's components, it means white wave, although some translations have it as white and fair. I prefer the white wave, though. In Japanese kanji, it is haku for white, and nami for wave. So, Hakunami. Sounds really neat, right? Well, here's to hoping that there are not a lot of Jennifers wanting to translate their name to kanji, though, or else we'll have thousands of Hakunamis running around, too.

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Kanji!

[tracy144.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll have to figure out my kanji name now. In Japanese class this one girl told me I reminded her of a funny Japanese comic book character(kinda like the equivalent of Archie I guess). So in Japanese class, henceforth I was known as Akimoto Tetsuya. (Tetsuya being the first name)

Re: Kanji!

[jaelie.livejournal.com]

It will be a little tougher for you - looks like your name is a place-name, from what I can find...

TRACY f,m English
Pronounced: TRAY-see
From a surname which was taken from a Norman French place name meaning "domain belonging to THRACIUS".

THRACIUS m Ancient Roman
From a Roman name which meant "of Thracia". Thracia was a region in southeastern Europe, now divided between Greece and Turkey.

Re: Kanji!

[jaelie.livejournal.com]

Tracy, I've done more research on Thracia. Here's what I've found:

In Greek, Thracia is a place name. However, also in Greek, they spell it similar to the word thraka (or thraxa) which means "embers." Oddly enough, the Thracians were described as red-headed, tempermental, and violent by Socrates, so naming their country after the embers of a fire could be appropriate. So maybe your kanji name would be something along the lines of "from fire" or "from embers."

Re: Kanji!

[tracy144.livejournal.com]

hehehe >:)

That's cool, I'm a big fan of fire. :) I almost named a couple of my DAoC magicians with the Celtic words for fire, Aodh and Aoghan/Egan? Something like that.

I'll have to pull out my Japanese dictionary, I found it the other day when I was unpacking everything for my bookshelf. :)

I met this guy who seemed crazy one time, but he seemed to know what he was talking about. He said he knew names and he could tell me what they meant. He said the typical meaning of my name(which is found in most name books as English) which was brave, but he said there was a lesser-known meaning which is, "The Path"

I found that definition most interesting because I like to look at life(among other things) as a path I walk, rather than a destination I hope to arrive at.(Thank you Dan Millman :P )

Thanks Jay :)