Japanese name converter
Christopher Girsch
Hi there,
Back in December, I found a website that Romanizes Japanese names.
It was particularly helpful in unusual names. I forgot to save it to my
Favorites, and now I can’t find it.
Does anyone know a good website for Romanizing Japanese names?
Chris Girsch
Stuart Albert
of its features is a Japanese name dictionary that will provide an
instant list of several possible Romanizations for a given Japanese
name. The only catch is that the name needs to be present in the
browser window; i.e., it won't work from a Word document, PDF, etc.
Stuart Albert
Alan Siegrist
> If you use Firefox, I can't recommend the Rikaichan plugin enough. One of
its
> features is a Japanese name dictionary that will provide an instant list
of
> several possible Romanizations for a given Japanese name. The only catch
is
> that the name needs to be present in the browser window; i.e., it won't
> work from a Word document, PDF, etc.
If I understand correctly, the Rikaichan dictionary is just an
implementation of Jim Breen's Edict dictionary, which can also be
conveniently accessed via WWWJDIC here:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
I believe the dictionaries can also be downloaded and accessed from Word or
the like if desired.
Regards,
Alan Siegrist
Carmel, CA, USA
Chris Moore
http://openlab.jp/skk/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.jinmei
HTH
Chris Moore
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Christopher Girsch
Thanks Chris and others.
The website I found allowed you to copy and paste a name into the search
field.
It spat out the reading instantly.
I'll keep looking. Perhaps I will Google the right combination of keywords
and find
it again. When/If I do, I'll pass it along for others.
Chris
Christopher Girsch
Hi there,
Actually, an offlist responder got me thinking that perhaps my search string
was different from when I found the website the first time.
This is similar to what I remember. My memory is a little foggy; I was in a
rush with the names of custodians in an antitrust lawsuit so.
http://nihongo.j-talk.com/kanji/
This is not bad, and looks like it could be a useful reference, although it
is not completely 100% accurate. You may want to give it a try and see how
it works for you. Just to test it, I typed 亮子 (Ryoko) and was given Akiko.
I'll keep looking when I have a minute. In the meantime, this may suffice,
but when in doubt, I will always confirm a name with my inhouse native
speaker, aka Mrs. Girsch.
Chris Girsch
Andreas Rusterholz
> http://nihongo.j-talk.com/kanji/
>
> This is not bad, and looks like it could be a useful reference, although it
> is not completely 100% accurate. You may want to give it a try and see how
> it works for you. Just to test it, I typed 亮子 (Ryoko) and was given Akiko.
>
What's wrong with 亮子 ＝ あきこ？
100% accurate? You will never know for sure unless you find the name
written in Hiragana or Romaji.
Andreas R.
Christopher Girsch
>> This is not bad, and looks like it could be a useful reference, although it
>> is not completely 100% accurate. You may want to give it a try and see how
>> it works for you. Just to test it, I typed 亮子 (Ryoko) and was given Akiko
.
>>
>> Chris Girsch
>
>What's wrong with 亮子 ＝ あきこ？
>100% accurate? You will never know for sure unless you find the name
>written in Hiragana or Romaji.
>
I agree - that's why I added: _but when in doubt, I will always confirm a name
_
It is also read Ryoko.
Chris
Andreas Rusterholz
So it's quite difficult to confirm the correct reading.
Andreas R.
Minoru Mochizuki
How to read Japanese names written in Kanji have always been a problem to us
Japanese as well, but it is getting worse at an accelerated rate these days.
Learning that one of my grandson's friend at his kindergarten isロイ, I
asked if the boy's parents are non-Japanese.
I was told by my daughter-in-law that they are Japanese. She also told me
how to write the boy's name in Kanji, but now I cannot remember those
characters as they were so outlandish.
A similar one, this time a girl, is アリサ.
I wouldn't mind if their parents want to name their siblings in Katakana
simulating occidental names, but I think it would cause less problem if they
refrain from using Kanji to be cocky.
Nobody seems to be interested in curbing the incredibly imaginative use of
Kanji in naming.
I believe this will cause a headache to the Japanese society in coming
years.
Minoru Mochizuki
Richard Thieme
the time of nationalization of parents is having an impact these days.
I have two Bengoshi clients with distinctively Chinese looking Kanji, and
they use the Chinese based romanization and pronunciation. One or two is not
so bad to remember, but twenty or thirty would get complicated, and I am not
sure the Kanji writing system is suited to addressing this quandary.
Of course with digitization the way it is, the simplest thing is to just ask
the parents what the childs name is at the time of registration, with the
audio file becoming the official name rather than the analog ink based
graphic encoding thereof, but we are not there yet.
Regards,
Richard Thieme
kanji saito
能です。
なぜならば、人名に使用してよい漢字は法務省により定められていますが、その
読み方に規制、制限はないからです。
そのため、「亮子」と書いて「みつお」と読ませることも可能です。
斉藤 完治
Jens Wilkinson
> Japanese names are problematic, not only to foreigners, but to us Japanese.
>
That's true, yes. I would add, though, that this may be a wider
problem than just of Japanese, In English it can also be a problem,
though certainly to a lesser extent. Sometimes a name like Megan can
be pronounced either Maygan or Meegan, things like that. So when you
meet a person who you've only corresponded with, you can sometimes get
the pronunciation wrong. I remember someone who used to sometimes call
Pres. Reagan "Reegan".
In any case, like others I was a bit surprised that there could be a
site that could give "the reading" for a Japanese name, since in so
many cases there is no single accepted reading.
--
Jens Wilkinson
Neo Patwa (patwa.pbwiki.com)
Chris Moore
Eli Kirzner-Priest
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 18:09:28 +0900
Subject: Re: Japanese name converter
Christopher Girsch
>
>I guess Star Wars names are getting more popular here in Japan.A baby born ju
ケノビ (as in Obi-wan Kenobi).
>Of course Japanese people can't technically take more than two names at birth
It reads like this:(名字)ケノビ優人.
>
I know someone that named their son タイガ (or some kanji equivalent) after th
e great
Tiger Woods.
In 1993 or so, I remember a young couple trying to name their first son
悪魔 which was rejected.
Perhaps the boy's father will be released from prison soon.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%82%AA%E9%AD%94%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93%E5%
91%BD%E5%90%8D%E9%A8%92%E5%8B%95
(なお、当男児の父親はこの騒動から3年後の1996年7月に覚せい剤取締法違反で逮捕さ
れている)
Chris Girsch
R Freeman
> Japanese names are problematic, not only to foreigners, but to us Japanese.That's true, yes. I would add, though, that this may be a wider
>
problem than just of Japanese, In English it can also be a problem...
JimBreen
> I use this file sometimes
>
> http://openlab.jp/skk/skk/dic/SKK-JISYO.jinmei
version from Jed Schmidt.) About 500 names were not
already in the ENAMDICT names dictionary, so I have now
added them, along with the romanized version.
Some of the new ones include:
Ｑ太郎 [きゅうたろう] /Kyuutarou (m)/
Ｂ作 [びいさく] /Biisaku (g)/
....
and my favourite:
八月月 [おおがすとむーん]
My romanizer utility rendered that as "Oogasutomu-n", but
I have changed it to "August Moon". Cute. Probably
from 落石八月月, who I see is a writer and translator.
Cheers
Jim
Andreas Rusterholz
>
> Some of the new ones include:
>
> Ｑ太郎 [きゅうたろう] /Kyuutarou (m)/
> Ｂ作 [びいさく] /Biisaku (g)/
> ....
>
>
> Jim
Both of them are stage names.
佐藤 B作（さとう ビーさく、本名；佐藤 俊夫)
鈴木 Q太郎（すずき きゅーたろう、本名：猪熊 正志)
I think you should change the tags (m) or (g) to something else.
Andreas R.
pls
--- Andreas Rusterholz <ruste...@infoseek.jp> wrote:
> Both of them are stage names.
> 佐藤 B作（さとう ビーさく、本名；佐藤 俊夫)
> 鈴木 Q太郎（すずき きゅーたろう、本名：猪熊 正志)
>
> I think you should change the tags (m) or (g) to something else.
There are already "p", "pr" "o", "c", and "st" to chose from - and although
i would not hesitate to classify "
スポック", for example, as "pr", others might object to (or be confused by)
such a classification, so perhaps adding "fi" (fictitious name, i.e., name
of a figure in a novel, movie, or manga) might be useful. And perhaps "pe"
(pen name; stage name") for items like
ビートたけし and "aw" (work of art) for items like ノルウェーの森...
Hendrik (occasional contributor to ENAMDIC)
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JimBreen
> On 2月9日, 午後2:15, JimBreen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Some of the new ones include:
>
> > Ｑ太郎 [きゅうたろう] /Kyuutarou (m)/
> > Ｂ作 [びいさく] /Biisaku (g)/
> Both of them are stage names.
> 佐藤 B作（さとう ビーさく、本名；佐藤 俊夫)
> 鈴木 Q太郎（すずき きゅーたろう、本名：猪熊 正志)
>
> I think you should change the tags (m) or (g) to something else.
I have added a note about them being stage
names. The tagging is in need of revision.
Jim
Christopher Girsch
On Feb 4, 10:00 am, "Christopher Girsch" <cpgir...@nifty.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Back in December, I found a website that Romanizes Japanese names.
>
> It was particularly helpful in unusual names. I forgot to save it to my
>
http://kanji.reader.bz/
Give it a try and see what you think. I think it will be handy for
Romanizing Japanese
names - haven't used much to say whether it is good.
Chris Girsch