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UM AWHILE AGO I MADE A TUTORIAL FOR MEANINGFUL NAMES THTA ARENT GOOGLE TRANSLATE BUT I DELETED IT

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Imagine you put the word "tit jiggle" into English to Japanese Google Translate and got back "Oshaburi", and named your character Osha Buri. Every time someone mentions your character, they'll be saying tit jiggle, because it's Japan and people speak Japanese. "Hi there, tit jiggle." "May I borrow a pencil, tit jiggle?"

It's easy to tell when something is Google Translated. 9 times out of 10 whatever comes out won't be an actual name. There are very few exceptions such as "Hana", which is the result for "Flower".

Meaningful Kanji
Now, let's discuss the name meaning. If you want to have a meaningful name for your OC, instead of using Google Translate, you should use meaningful kanji. Think of a Japanese name, then, if you don't know Japanese (which you probably don't) you could look up different kanji for each syllable, which have different meanings.

I like to use to find kanji for the names of my characters by using specific syllables, or parts of the name. Let's use the given name "Michiko" as an example. We can search "Mi" and it will bring up one or more kanji characters we can use.

Let's use 三, which means three. Now we can search "chi". Now we can choose a kanji. Let's choose 乳, which can mean milk (or breasts). "-ko" can mean child, which is 子. So now we have a kanji spelling for Michiko, 三乳子, which can mean "child with three breasts" or something.

This is a terrible name, and there are several much better spellings out there, like 道子, which means "child of the path" or something. It all depends on what you choose.

This method might not always be perfect, but it's certainly better than using Google Translate.