uisukii wrote:

ta12121 wrote:

uisukii wrote:

That 足 tattoo, then トマト... lost my shit right there. More people should get these tattoos; they're hilarious.

EDIT: Ta, I reckon you're better off waiting long enough to be able to become a Japanese citizen and just give yourself an entirely new, Japanese name. Well, that's what I want to eventually do, anyway.

I doubt I will become a Japanese citizen, as you cannot have a dual citizenship in Japan. I like my Canadian one and would love a Japanese one but the amount of time it would take is ridiculous in my opinion.

Well, whatever floats your boat. I don't particularly care for my current citizenship, being born into it an all. Anyway, on the subject of name, if you're stuck you can always go with 山田太郎,

No worries, for me my family immigrated to Canada back in the 1990's, so I was just a kid back then. So I easily got a citizenship

Last edited by ta12121 (2013 April 02, 11:28 am)

s0apgun wrote:

Do foreigners ever adopt Japanese names while staying in Japan? Kind of like all the Chinese people in America that go by Dave or Bruce?

Well, Chinese people in Japan certainly use Japanese names fairly often, since the whole foreign-language-name thing is already a well established way of doing things in China.  It depends though.  I've known five Chinese people pretty well who were living in Japan long term.  Two of them used Japanese names that were kind of similar to their Chinese names.  One of them used his English name, katakana-ized.  And two of them used little chunks of their Chinese names that were easy for Japanese to pronounce (in both these cases, they were young cutesy girls, and everyone attached -chan to their nicknames).

Last edited by Tzadeck (2013 April 02, 7:31 pm)

NightSky wrote:

Yeah, I've had people telling me to choose a Chinese name for ages but I've still not done it, picking yourself a new name to go by is actually really difficult. I was hoping for a good one that had reasonable characters and sounded good in both Chinese and Japanese, but never found one

My Chinese friend used 竜 (りゅう). Seems pretty cool to me, but I dunno what natives would think. Maybe ta could get 昇竜拳 on his laptop, and use Ken as a first name.

読み込み

Almost certainly ENAMDICT
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/enamdict_doc.html

Most EDICT programs also have ENAMDICT at least as an option (including rikai, jisho.org, and of course, wwwjdic).

雨土 is listed as a surname, not a given name, but at least it's a name.

Of course, under any circumstances, kanji conversion of non-Japanese names is considered somewhere between weird and presumptuous, that is, when it's not simply laughable.

I can simply convert my Korean name 洪 性薰 into 大水　薫. It works out easy for me that way.
Perhaps the meaning behind your Japanese name can give inspiration to your japanese name.
Keep the meaning, discard the pronunciation (if you don't mind it)

Last edited by lhong1987 (2013 April 04, 7:41 pm)

lhong1987 wrote:

I can simply convert my Korean name 洪 性薰 into 大水　薫. It works out easy for me that way.
Perhaps the meaning behind your Japanese name can give inspiration to your japanese name.
Keep the meaning, discard the pronunciation (if you don't mind it)

That would be the best way to go, since there isn't really any readings related to my name. So it really comes down to choosing a name that I like (which could take a long while).

If you're looking for a name to use in Japanese, I suggest just choosing one that you like, regardless of whether it's related to your real name or not. Most of my Japanese friends know me as 遥　（はるか） as it's the name I've become attached to over the years.

Saiga wrote:

Luckily for me my last name sounds cool: ペイン. Although kids might mistake me for a Naruro villain. And my first name comes out to a simple 平 phonetically. If/when I get married, I'll probably take my wife's last name.

Your last name (at least the katakana spelling) is also the same as that of two brothers who are Internet famous, ペイン・ダンカン・龍之介　and ペイン・ダンテ・将之介　(they have an English father and Japanese mother) so the character isn't the only association.

jettyke wrote:

I had a kanji name which my friend randomly suggested for me, which i used for a while,

But after living here for a year or so i gave up on the idea, because it took a while for me to realize that it was too unnnatural and kinda ridiculous:D

Many people write my name in hiragana though.

Depends on the name i guess.


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The second thing is that unless a japanese person has some normal/easy or obvious kanji,

in many cases people will give up on typing the real kanji, and write name s(even their own) in hiragana or katakana. Probably because now everyone is lazy and busy with their smartphones and what not.

I think at the moment staying with my name in katakana is ideal or at least choosing a Japaneses name I really relate to or like is the best approach.

ta12121 wrote:

Sorry to revive this thread but I was wondering if you guys could help me out with making a username (all the ones I want are taken but). Need to brainstorm pretty much but I got a good idea from watching J volggers. I'm sticking with amedo or amada (jpn names but close to my name), then I was thinking of adding a JPN name/word to that to make it sound catchy/it flows together.

Whatever you like? Isn't that more of a personal preference?

In respect to myself,  「山田耶麻だ」 is something I use a lot pretty much for a name which is easy to remember; reminds me of a stupid (yet funny) cliche character/s in a certain manga; and it is a pretty generic name which for some reason one of my closest and non-Japanese speaking/learning friends finds amusing, for some reason (I explained that it is a little like the name "Smith Smith", and he laughed, called me an idiot; now it is a running in-joke between us). So yeah... probably better off going with something you'll remember and has some importance to you.


Though maybe it would useful to post a shortlist of names you'd like and members could respond with how they feel it "works", and make possible suggestions in turn?