Difficulty of reading names Japanese name
a name written in kanji may have more 1 common pronunciation, 1 of correct given individual. example, surname written in kanji 東海林 may read either tōkairin or shōji. conversely, 1 name may have several possible written forms, , again, 1 correct given individual. character 一 when used male given name may used written form hajime, hitoshi, ichi- / -ichi kazu- / -kazu, , many others. name hajime may written of following: 始, 治, 初, 一, 元, 肇, 創, 甫, 基, 哉, 啓, 本, 源, 東, 大, 孟, or 祝. many-to-many correspondence between names , ways written more common male given names surnames or female given names, can observed in these categories. permutations of potential characters , sounds can become enormous, overloaded sounds may produced on 500 distinct kanji , kanji characters can stand several dozen sounds. can , make collation, pronunciation, , romanization of japanese name difficult problem. reason, business cards include pronunciation of name furigana, , forms , documents include spaces wri...