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    vanandrew
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    @andrew – can you tell me anything, or point me someplace, regarding the other ways to kanjify your name?

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    vlgi
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    Not really :p, try playing around with jisho.org,

    If you want to go for meanings, choose meanings and look them up on Jisho.org.

    Lets see Andrew means…

    The word is derived from the Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas,[4] itself related to Greek: ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός aner/andros, “man” (as opposed to “woman”), thus meaning “manly” and, as consequence, “strong”, “courageous”, and “warrior”.

    So stick some of those in Jisho.org

    Sticking in Strong gives some results for Strong man, maybe that seems a good fit?

    Now you want to think how it sounds, and whether its any good. Maybe try sticking the hiragana into jisho.org and see if there are any similar homophones with bad meanings…

    I think the ultimate test would be to ask a real or several real japanese people how it sounds.

    However always take their responses with a grain of salt as most won’t come out straight off and tell you if its bad, I’d say unless its an obviously positive response its suspect.

    Now I don’t really know much about name kanji used in Japan, and there are probably better ways of doing this.

    As you can imagine its a bit of a landmine which is why its generally recommended to go with katakana at first, once you’ve become adept at the language you’ll probably know a lot better how to do it yourself.

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    vlgi
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    Oh this looks like a cool resource.

    http://www.kanjiclinic.com/introsurnames.htm

    Heres a wiki article on the jinmeiyo kanji

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinmeiy%C5%8D_kanji

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