Monday, October 01, 2007

Japanese Names

Japanese surnames are all made from a small pool of some 70 or so Kanji.
Given names are much more varied and so will often be written with furigana (esp. on TV)

To help me I've written some of them here with their furigana.. using Firefox I can view these pages and zoom in to get a nice shot of the way the Kanji is drawn.


名字(みょうじ)

梶山(かじやま)渡辺(わたなべ)

名前(なまえ)
晴美(はるみ)(まな)()美佳(みか)