my name in Japanese

Hawken King (July 11, 2006)

recently I was told some nice kanji for my surname, which is “king”. So my full name is:

宝剣「ホーケン」(hawken) –> syllabic = ho-u-ke-n
金具「キング」(king) –> syllabic = ki-n-gu

The names don’t really sound like Japanese person or family names, but the phonetic meanings are interesting. Hawken means Treasure Sword and King means to have gold or Gold Implement.
A friend of mine is called Ben. Unfortunately this literally means “poo” in Japanese phonetics. However his surname is Thomas, in Japanese this is syllabically “tomasu”. So ben+to = bento!



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