Sunday, October 14, 2007

Meaning of our names!

Do you like your name? I love my name very much.
I'd like to introduce to you my name meaning today.
My first mame is "Miharu". It consists of two kanji letter”美晴”. ”美”  means beautiful. The letter is often used to girls name, so also my mother's name has ”美”. Her name is Chiemi(知江美). There are many friends whoes name has ”美”. ”晴”means sunny.
However, the name was not named by my parents. There is Japanese tradition that is fortune-telling based on the number of strokes needed to write a name in kanji, so my name is based on it with my last name.
My last name is "Suzuki". It consists of two kanji letter too.”鈴木”."鈴” means bell.  "木” means tree. I think you have heard the name, because it is the most common name in Japan. Almost all my neighbor's last name are Suzuki. It's so interesting, isn't it?

Have a nice weekend. Bye!!

1 comment:

Lynsey said...

Wow! I never knew about the fortune telling names before! That is so interesting!

My exchange student's name was Mai Maekawa and she had a neighbor with the same name! Is this a problem in Japan? In China there are so many people with the same name that now Chinese babies need middle names.

My full name is Lynsey Nicole Piernick. Lynsey is a weird way to spell the name Lindsay, which means born under the linden tree... I am disappointed in my name. Your name is so cute! うらやまし~!