For those of you that has a fairly common English/American name, here is a rough guide in what you name is like in hiragana (�Ђ炪�ȁj. For those with more ethic names, you'll just have to use the Hiragana Table.Peace!
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���ァ���� >> mine is like this?..i just typed it n this appears
�W�����A�i >> katakana

there's no LI in jpnese ne...so it changed to RI instead

Cool site. I'll have to print out my hiragana name and post it somewhere.

they only have my real full name Andy

anyone know how to write my nickname AJ in kana?

great site regardless niko2x!

Heh, they have both Mike and Michael for me... Here's Michael:

Uchiha Potato wrote:

they only have my real full name Andy anyone know how to write my nickname AJ in kana?

Dude, that would be easy, but to be honest, AJ is really just AJ.
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I was searching through the internet and found out that REN f Japanese
Means "water lily" . Anyone know how to spell my name in Japanese?>

Foreign names are usually written in katagana, not hiragana~

However, Japanese names are usually represented in hiragana and kanji. However, there are exception to katagana letters for names.

hiroki0520 wrote:

Foreign names are usually written in katagana, not hiragana~ However, Japanese names are usually represented in hiragana and kanji. However, there are exception to katagana letters for names.

yup i was gonna say why are u looking up ur names in hiragan if u can't use it.... ur real names will be in katakana

cute link - thanks

�W���V���A= joshua in katakana

hiroki0520 wrote:

Foreign names are usually written in katagana, not hiragana~ However, Japanese names are usually represented in hiragana and kanji. However, there are exception to katagana letters for names.

Actually, i was thinking of that when i posted the link, but i also was thinking that in JPN, hiragana is first taught to toddlers, essentially, the first written language, before katakana and kanji. If one would read some kids book there is even hiragana next to the katakana (so kids would know how to read the katakana), so i thought that sharing the link was appropriate. There was some people that had posted (i forgot where, but somewhere here) to the effect of "Can you write my name in JPNese?" so that link would satisfy their want. I hope I didn't mislead anyone to thinking that their name are usually written in hiragana. It's usually in katakana.
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Actually, i was thinking of that when i posted the link, but i also was thinking that in JPN, hiragana is first taught to toddlers, essentially, the first written language, before katakana and kanji. If one would read some kids book there is even hiragana next to the katakana (so kids would know how to read the katakana), so i thought that sharing the link was appropriate. There was some people that had posted (i forgot where, but somewhere here) to the effect of "Can you write my name in JPNese?" so that link would satisfy their want. I hope I didn't mislead anyone to thinking that their name are usually written in hiragana. It's usually in katakana.

really? my japanese professor told me that KATAKANA is taught to children first because its simple and straight lines...and children's motor skills have not fully developed yet...so they hold out on teaching hiragana until like 2-3 grade beause it is more complex and 'wavey' that what she tols us...which i tought was weird..... but i dunno what's what now!

offtopic: hey niko i got ur manga in the mail yesterday...man for beign such a little kid the story sure is violent dude!

I think it does not matter what type that children learns first or second; the important thing about names is still the children in Japan would have hiragana representation for their kanji names anyways.

For example,

let's take Kimura Takuya-> it would have kanji representation, but can be translated in hiragana as well. Nowadays, people are mixing up katagana so that's why his name is written "KiMuTaKu" shorthanded in katagana in newspaper.

Or in usual case,

Matsu Takako, same thing here, kanji to hiragana translation.

Therefore, who care what the children learns what first; but I'm not Japanese so I don't kno what they learn first. I'll come back to post what they learn first from my Japanese friends~!

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offtopic: hey niko i got ur manga in the mail yesterday...man for beign such a little kid the story sure is violent dude!

No prob, brah. More stuff coming on the way. BTW loveless, come check out this forum. It's in my signature. You like the discussions, I'm sure.
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How do U spel Milan??

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in katakana.
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hiroki0520 wrote:

I think it does not matter what type that children learns first or second; the important thing about names is still the children in Japan would have hiragana representation for their kanji names anyways. Therefore, who care what the children learns what first!

You are right that the hiragana represents the kanji, that's the reason why the JPN kids learn hiragana first for the phonical sounds. The kanji (as most of us know) is too hard for the youngsters. Like I said, that's why most/all kid's book are written in hiragana so they can have a sense of how to read, if not the meaning than at least the phonics.
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I think Nico is right. Hiragana is taught first, at least on my own experience. I am not a Japanese but I went through formal Nihongo lessons and our first lesson was the Hiragana. Katakana came a little bit later. Some text (esp hard Kanji and even some Katakana) have what they call "Furigana" - that's the text (usually above the Kanji or Katakana word) denoting the reading in Hiragana. I think this was mentioned in some earlier post also

I can translate mine exactly the way it is: ��Ԃ݂䂫