My Kanji Name

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.