How to properly write his name?
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How to properly write his name?
Is it Gendou, Gendo, Gendoh or something whole different? I've read so damn many, I don't really know... and I know 0% about kanji and so - I can't check it ;)
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Gendo's name is written in katakana -- kanji is something completely different. (Google will tell you the difference.)
All three spellings are valid. When Gendo's name is written in Roman letters in Japanese merch, it's commonly "Gendo". However, the "o" IS actually long; the spellings "Gendou" and "Gendoh" reflect this.
Read this if you want a more thorough explanation.
All three spellings are valid. When Gendo's name is written in Roman letters in Japanese merch, it's commonly "Gendo". However, the "o" IS actually long; the spellings "Gendou" and "Gendoh" reflect this.
Read this if you want a more thorough explanation.
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Reichu wrote:Gendo's name is written in katakana -- kanji is something completely different. (Google will tell you the difference.)
All three spellings are valid. When Gendo's name is written in Roman letters in Japanese merch, it's commonly "Gendo". However, the "o" IS actually long; the spellings "Gendou" and "Gendoh" reflect this.
Read this if you want a more thorough explanation.
Well, Katakana then... Sorry for my lack of wisdom! I'm just a mere slave...
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don't forget souryuu/sohryuu/soryuu/soryu/souryu/sohryu.
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Sventevith wrote:Yeah... damn these Japanese names! :P I will just learn how to write them in Japanese...
well, these are the official character name spellings as found on gainax's web site. you'll need to be able to display Japanese characters to see them. in internet explorer, a little box should pop up, asking you to install them; if not, go to view>encoding>more...>Japanese (shift-jis). if you have another browser, well... you'll have to find that out yourself.
remember that these (and the romanizations) are in Japanese name order, with family name first. gainax's site kinda screws around with the romanizations (putting "oh" instead of "ou", for instance), so i'm giving the literal romanizations, with notes when necessary.
碇シンジ - ikari Shinji
葛城ミサト - katsuragi Misato
綾波レイ - Ayanami Rei
惣流.アスカ.ラングレー - souryuu Asuka ranguree [langley] (yes, the site says "sohryu", but i checked the characters and this is the real rendering)
渚カヲル - nagisa kaworu
赤木リツコ - akagi ritsuko
碇ゲンドウ - ikari gendou
冬月コウゾウ - fuyutsuki kouzou
加持リョウジ - Kaji ryouji
鈴原トウジ - suzuhara touji
相田ケンスケ - aida kensuke
洞木ヒカリ - horaki hikari
日向マコト - hyuuga makoto (these characters can actually be either "hyuga" or "hyuuga", but "hyuuga" is the more common of them, and a google for the character name in Japanese along with either "hyuga" or "hyuuga" in hiragana produced 32 results for the latter and 0 for the former, so that's what i'm going with)
伊吹マヤ - ibuki maya
青葉シゲル - aoba shigeru (don't trust "mangle" entertainment on the pronunciation of his family name; they say "ay-oh-ba", but it's really "ah'oh-ba")
also a little bit of trivia: Rei's name is both a reference to Rei hino (sailor mars) from sailor moon and a play on "Rei", the Japanese word for "zero".
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I always wondered about the Rei meaning. I don't know which Kanji is usually used for naming in Japan, as Rei is a true name. Yes, it can mean zero, but there are other interesting meanings:
伶 - Actor
冷 - cold, cool
儷 - companion
礼 - expression of gratitude
霊 - soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost
令 - command; order; dictation
伶 - Actor
冷 - cold, cool
儷 - companion
礼 - expression of gratitude
霊 - soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost
令 - command; order; dictation
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