Talk:Teppei Kaneko/@comment-36277500-20190510230034

It's not quite right...

Surname: Kaneko 金子 - may have several meanings. 金 (かね) Kane - gold, money, metal Alternate writings: 鉄 (かね), 銀 (かね), 銅 (かね) 子 Ko - child, sign of the rat (11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac) Alternate writings: 小 Ko - little, small

"Doubly accomplished child" is totally wrong. It's written by different ideograms 兼ね子, deriving from 兼ねる kaneru - "to hold (position), to serve, to be unable, to be beyond one's ability, to combine with, to use with". Also, it's a given name for a girl, and we have adult male's surname here... Japanese have many homonymes - words with identical sound, but different spelling and meaning.

First name: Teppei 鉄平 It consists of Tetsu (てつ ) + Hei (Hei へい may be also read as Pei ペい, depending on context). Japanese geminated consonants (other than NN) often are written by belittled -っ (-tsu), so Tetsu+Hei = Teppei (hiragana: てっペい).

Teppei 鉄平 鉄 (てつ) Tetsu - Iron (Fe), Strong and hard (as iron), Railway, Railway enthusiast. 平 (へい) Hei - meaning: 1) even, flat, peace, 2) Something broad and flat, palm of the hand, 3) Common, ordinary, 4) Low-ranking employee, freshman, novice, private.

So it's not so simple as it looks...