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Japanese BSD Character Names Translated!!!
I’ve been learning Japanese for over a year and a half now, so I thought it would be fun to look into the meanings behind some of BSD’s cast. (Which also doubles as the original authors/poets names.)
Starting with Atsushi, his name is made of three characters: 中 島 敦
The first two, composing his family name, “Nakajima,” means island in the center of a pond/river. So essentially, “island pond”.
The kanji in his first name: 敦 can refer to either industry or the quality of being kind/gentle.
So all together, his name would be “Kind island pond.”
Like most last names, his probably refers to the location where his family is from. Meanwhile the first is just a typical Japanese name with a sweet meaning behind it.
🐞 Saturday, April 26th. Today is the 116th day of 2025. May you have a Saturday full of compassion🖐😊
🌸:❀.｡o °･:こんにちは 世界 ..｡o °･❀:🌸. ・・・ Konnichiwa sekai ・・・ 💙Hello World🩵
Merhaba Dünya🐞 Buongiorno Mondo🌷 Bonjour tout le monde☘️
.｡o °･❀:🌸..｡o °･❀:🌸..｡o °･❀:🌸.
4月26日、土曜日。 今日は2025年の116日目。 思いやりに満ちた土曜日でありますように。
Learn Japanese with me #1
Today is september 11, 2022
Let’s begin with numbers. I won’t use any kana for a time, we’ll introduce them later at a slow pace.
1. The single numbers
1 = ichi
2 = ni
3 = san
4 = yon (shi)
5 = go
6 = roku
7 = nana (shichi)
8 = hachi
9 = kyuu (ku)
10 = juu
The words in parentheses are alternative names for those numbers. Sometimes those names are evaded due to the fact that they’re pronounciations for other words regarded as unlucky words, like shi which is the same sound for death and ku which is the same sound for suffering.
2. The teens
These are very simple to work with, and the dynamics to build them are pretty much the same as those of roman numerals. What we do is that we take juu -10- and right after it we place a single number, like this:
11 = juu ichi
12 = juu ni
13 = juu san
14 = juu yon
15 = juu go
16 = juu roku
17 = juu nana
18 = juu hachi
19 = juu kyuu
3. The tens
For these numbers we take a very similar approach to the previous ones, just inverting the order. Like this:
20 = ni juu
30 = san juu
40 = yon juu
50 = go juu
60 = roku juu
70 = nana juu
80 = hachi juu
90 = kyuu juu
4. The hundreds
For 100 we use hyaku, and in order to make bigger numbers from it we just use it in a similar fashion to juu, with some exceptions:
200 = ni hyaku
300 = sanbyaku
400 = yon hyaku
500 = go hyaku
600 = roppyaku
700 = nana hyaku
800 = happyaku
900 = kyu hyaku
5. The thousands
For 1000 we say sen or issen. To build the multiple integers of 1000 we put the name of the integer before sen, with some exceptions:
2000 = ni sen
3000 = san zen
4000 = yon sen
5000 = go sen
6000 = roku sen
7000 = nana sen
8000 = hassen
9000 = kyuu sen
So now, we can build any integer number from 0 to 9999:
46 = yon juu roku
357 = san byaku go juu nana
7569 = nana sen go hyaku roku juu kyuu
Notice how the name looks like we are adding 7000 + 500 + 60 + 9.
I’m gonna leave it here, today. Hope you may find this useful, and I’ll see you soon :3
がんばってね！