Hello!

I don't know if this kind of question is cliche in these forums, but, I thought I would ask anyway, just in case.

My girlfriends Last Name is 中濱 (なかはま）

However, I cannot find 濱 in the texts! I can find her first name, and of course 中 is easy to find, but not 濱.

I tried to lookup in the third book by using it's chinese reading ヒン。

I thought with such a great meaning as it has, to reflect in this book, it should be there!

I found 賓　which incidentally also reads as ヒン、and is the same as the right side of the Kanji, but not with the water primitive.

So, I suppose my question is, is the Kanji in the books at all? can anyone see it?

Maybe I am just trying to prove something by ensuring it is not there, but if anyone has a moment to spare, please give it a check! If it isn't there, I may be happy with my lookup skills

It's interesting if it isn't, I mean it's an easy Kanji to put into the books! After frame 511 you could put it right next to it :/ Myabe it isn't used, but for me I use it often, haha, I really don't know why I want to make sure anymore! However, I have written to much to let it be deleted.

Thank you for reading my rant, regardless.

[Katsuo]

濱 is a variant of 浜 (RTK no. 1332).

True - if I type in なかはま, the first kanji that come up are 中浜. 濱 must not be very usual or widely used.

I've heard many times people comment about a post war simplification of kanjis in japan. Is this true? Maybe it has something to do with that.

Yes it's true, although there have been other simplification efforts even earlier than that. You'd have to find 浜 in an etymological dictionary to find out when exactly it was simplified.

Generally speaking, simplification efforts only change popular, government, and news writing. Which is to say 99.9% of everything, but that last 0.1% includes things like personal names and certain religious/cultural texts, where you'll find variants like 濱 in common use today.