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damnfooltalk ([personal profile] damnfooltalk) wrote2021-01-05 09:05 am

Naming Conventions

Names containing 煉
れん 【煉】: Female given name
れんしちろう【煉七郎】:male given name, ren +7th son
れんげ【煉夏】: female given name, to refine/smelt/purify + summer
れんげ【煉華】: female given name, to refine/smelt/purify + flower, luster, ostentation
えいれん【鋭煉】: either, refined sharpness/cleverness/brunt of force/pointedness

Metal names- Gold
きん【金】: female given name, gold/metal
きんいちろう 【金一郎】: male given name, golden/metal 1st/2nd/howevermany son
きんざ/きんぞう【金山/金三】:  gender not specified, gold mountain or gold + 3. Alt reading: かねみ
きんすけ 【金丞】: male given name, gold/metal + help/save
きんじ【金久」: male given name, gold/metal + long (time passed), old (story) [brings to mind our long forgotten gold, a forlorn sort of ring to the name]
かねゆき/きんし 【金之】:  gold + this one/of [archaic], but a sense of >> GOLDEN ONE<< emphasis in name
きんのじょう/きんのすけ「金之丞/金之介」:... this is basically Golden Savior-female with じょう reading, male with すけ reading

Metal names- Iron/Metal
くろがね【鉄】: iron
Fun fact- someone who can't fucking swim can be described in Japanese as 金槌同然泳げない・かなづちどうぜんおよげないー they swim like a hammer
てつや 【鉄
箭】: iron arrow
こうてつ 【鋼鉄]: steel

Metal names‐ Silver
ぎん 【銀」: Silver, female name
ぎんざぶろう 「銀三郎」: silver 3rd son

Metal-adjacent: 
鋭 sharpness/cleverness/pointed/brunt of force/violence
さとよ【
鋭代】女

Sun Names:
ひなた「日向] sunny place/in the sun *another valid reading of these kanji is ひゅうが so Hyuuga Hinata has been secretly moon moon (or rather Sunny Sunny) all along, although a more fitting writing of Hyuuga imo would be
飛雅 - fly, scatter + gracious, graceful, elegant, refined (and makes the Caged Bird seal more fittingly named.
ひびき「日々
希」rare sun/sunny days (female)
ひのまる「日の丸」full/round/perfect/uncovered sun (male)

Lightning Names:

きゅうでん 【球電】: ball lightning


Possible name components:

煉ね。る・ね。り・レン: refine, smelt, train
谷 たに・ヤ valley
山やま・サン mountain

筋 すじ・キン vein/tendon/fiber/plan/lineage/storyline/channel (of information)/vein (of ore), logical move (strategy)
鋭 するど。い・エイ pointed/sharpness/edge/weapon/violent/cleverness, also given name: えい(女)、としや・ときや (both readings 鋭也), 鋭仁 (さきひと)
冶: い。る・ヤ melting/smelting (component of word for metallurgy, 冶金)
網 : あみ・モウ net/netting/web
: さきねすじ・えいれんすじ・としねきん・えいねりきん
網: えいれんあみ・としれんあみ・
Eirenami       Toshirenami   ren + ami enables wordplay so could be read Toshire + Nami "to dare/risk the wave" (
) or "to dare to rival" (), actually written as Toshi + Ren + Ami "web/network of refined sharpness/pointedness/cleverness")

WE HAVE A WINNER

I'm going to come back and add more names so this one becomes a name bank, I think, but I'm publishing what I've got now because if I lose it I will cry. (TTnTT)

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