Talk:Teppei Kaneko/@comment-36277500-20190510230034

Author of Trivia, I'm warning you, that you are entering a domain what you hardly know. Before you put something in article, you must be 100% sure it's true. Because you may write something extremely wrong. And I'll be forced to report you to admins. It's not a threat, but a good advice.

Japanese language has many homonymes, having the same reading, but different Kanji (ideograms), and - more importantly - different meaning. If you misspell Japanese's name, you may even heavily offend them. If you don't believe me, try to search spellings and meanings of word Kōen...

But back to the topic...

His 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

His first name: Teppei 鉄平 It consists of Tetsu + Pei/Hei. Japanese geminated consonants (other than NN) often are written by -tsu, so Tetsu+Hei = Teppei. Pei may be read also as Hei (ヘイ), depending of context. But it's not always so predictable, so don't jump into some strange ideas...

Japanese language has two main roots: Sino-Japanese and Native Japanese. So the ideograms (kanji) can be read in several ways: On, Kun and Nanori. In this post I'm using only one of these, to making it more easy. Othwerwise, my post would be three times long!

Teppei 鉄平 鉄 (てつ) Tetsu - Iron (Fe), Strong and hard (as iron), Railway, Railway enthusiast. 平 - meaning: 1) even, flat, peace, 2) Something broad and flat, palm of the hand, 3) Common, ordinary, 4) Low-ranking employee, freshman, novice, private. 平 - (Reading) On: ヘイ, ビョウ, ヒョウ 平 - (Reading) Kun: たい.ら, -だいら, ひら, ひら- 平 - (Reading) Nanori: たいら, たら, はち, ひ, ひとし, へ, へん

A bit messy, huh? Treat it as a lesson for people who want to show off translating Japanese names, while not knowing basics of the language.