answer questions in the textbook on page 9 number 1,3 and 7.
1. How do you choose a children’s name in your family?
I think most of families or parents in Japan usually choose a name which they want for them child. In Japan, we have Chinese characters, so they choose Chinese characters carefully, like meaning, sounds, and number of strokes.
Some parents in Japan care about how the sound connects the given name and family name because girls might change their family name when they marry. That’s why some parents choose a name which can connect with any family name.
3. Does your given name or your family name mean anything?
The Chinese characters of my given name means “kind child”. My mother gave me her best friend’s name, so I like it very much. My name is kind of a common name in Japan I think because there are always a few girls who have same name with me in my class at least 3 people, and when somebody calls my name, usually some girls AND I answer.
7. How do you know if names are boy’s name, girl’s name, or both?
I can’t explain how I know a name is for a girl or a boy. If it is a Japanese name, I might be able to guess if that is female or male from the sound of the name. If I could see the Chinese characters of the person’s name, it easier to understand than only hearing the name, I think. I really don’t know why, but there are Chinese characters which look for feminine and look masculine for me.
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Don't you think there are some common endings in Japanese names that make it easy to tell what gender the person is. For example most girl's names end with "ko" or "mi" or "e" or "na" while boy's names usually end with "ji" or "suke" or "yuki" etc. That's what I have not noticed.
Thank you for reading, rolf.
Yes, that's right. If people have common names it easy to tell what gender the person. However, recently, there are a lot of younger parents in Japan. They don't choose a common name, so they choose "Chinese caracters" first. After that, thay think how to tead it. so recently, there are some mane which people can't read it because the parents made "new name" It's a little funny to me.
My name is given from my mother, too. It is interesting to consider the meaning of people's name from their Chinese characters!!
Thank you for reading, yellow dress.
Yes, it's very interesting!! and there are a lot of Chinese characters which have various meaning in Japanese. That's interesting and awesome!!
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