Traditional names reflect historical figures and cultural elements. Modern names offer contemporary twists while maintaining cultural roots. Unique names provide individuality and unconventional meanings
Hiragana is a syllabary with 46 characters representing Japanese sounds. Learning hiragana takes about a week or two. Basic vowels are represented in top row or first column
Japanese names blend cultural heritage with modern sensibility. Japanese is written in kanji, hiragana, and katakana scripts. Many names can be written differently with distinct meanings
Modern Japanese uses combination of kanji (Chinese characters) and kana (syllabic scripts). Kanji consists of over 50,000 characters, with 2,136 jōyō kanji required for education. Hiragana and katakana each contain 46 basic characters
Japanese is spoken by around 123 million people worldwide. It is the principal language of the Japonic family. Japanese is agglutinative with simple phonotactics and mora-timed structure. Word order is subject-object-verb with particles marking grammatical functions
Kana are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units. Each kana character represents one sound or syllable. System is always CV (consonant onset with vowel nucleus). Limited phonemes and rigid syllable structure make it accurate