Your-Name-In-Japanese: Japanese Kanji Symbols for Kanji Tattoo Designs

What is Kanji?

Differences between Japanese Kanji and Chinese Kanji?

Kanji is a set of characters used in the Japanese writing system, and originates from Ancient China. Interestingly enough, however, the Kanji used in Japan is quite different from the one in China in so many ways, as some of the Kanji characters had to be changed in their forms, meanings, pronunciation to represent things and customs indigenous to Japan where you can find all the intricate Japanese art forms or even Samurai/Bushido/Zen culture.

Generally speaking, when it comes to one's selection of Kanji tattoos, the Japanese Kanji seems to be more popular and prevalent than the Chinese one. This is probably not a matter of which is better or not-so-good. It's just because people find something special about the Japanese Kanji when getting Kanji symbols tattooed.

In addition, Hiragana and Katakana, which are other two types of the Japanese writing system, were also created. As a result, Japanese Kanji evolved differently from in China.

What is Japanese Kanji?

The Japanese Kanji is a set of ideographic alphabets which represents concepts and ideas. As contrast with English alphabets, the Japanese Kanji has three distictive features; form, sound, and meaning, which of these features are some of the main reasons why so many western people are attracted to Kanji symbol.

At the same time, because each Kanji symbol has at least more than two ways to pronunce it, making a right choice in pronuncing a Kanji symbol in relation to Hiragana scripts consisting of a word can be confusing to non-native speakers of Japanese.

For example, there are mainly two ways to pronunce a Kanji script, which means water. One way to pronunce it is "mizu," and another way is "sui." The former is called "kun-reading," which relates to the meaning of the Kanji, while the latter is "on-reading," which is close to the sound of the corresponding Kanji used in China. Every Kanji character has both kun-reading and on-reading.

How many Kanji symbols are used in Japan?

According to one of the most frequently used Kanji dictionary, it estimates to be roughly 50,000 Kanji characters.

However, it is not necessary for even Japanese people to memorize all the Kanji characteres in the dictionary to lead a normal life. If you know approximately 2,000 Kanji characters, it is most likely that you can enjoy reading newspapers or magazines written in Japanese, though the knowledge of both Katakana and Hiragana is also required to fully understand what's written in them.

Be sure to have your Kanji Tattoo checked by an experienced translator who are native speakers of Japanese

You can express how unique and special you are with Kanji tattoos considering these features of Kanji symbols aforementioned above. When having your name, a word or phrase translated into Kanji symbols, therefore, it is very important to choose accurate and appropriate ones that convey the meaning you wish to express with your Kanji tattoo. If you decided to create a Kanji tattoo on your own, it is always safer for you have a native Japanese translator check the Kanji symbols that you aregoing to use.

You never go wrong with us, as we are native speakers of Japanese who have a solid background of English-Japanese translation business.

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