Japanese meanings of names in Naruto

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Hey guys!

I was thinking about this,and I don't know if you share this tought to..

Isn't it weird to name Naruto character by real life things and creatures in japanese? How do Japanese recieve that,do they notice that or they simply don't care? If somone translated that on my languange that would be super wierd,like Kakashi (Scarecrow Farmfield) ?

Character names like: Itachi (wiesel) ,Minato (harbor) ,Kakashi (scarecrow), Hashirama (space betwen two pillars),and so on,check it on wiki,every character has a name from every day world,or combination of two words


What do you think? Is that wierd for them?
 

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Do not know but now that you are saying it looks really weird. But I do not think that for them it is weird.
 

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Lol whose ship is Minato docking?

I dunno, probably. Though if you look up your name it probably has some meaning.
 

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It's not weird for those who hail from Japan. The names have some sort of meaning to them, thus they use them.
 

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It's japanese culture.

Even our names have meanings you know.


Or Ryu Hayabusa (Dragon and Paragirine Falcon resp)
 

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Hashirama: MADARA!

Madara: SPace Between Two pillars!!!!!



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i don't think WIki is that good doe.

its just hashirama = hashirama :|S
 

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Lol whose ship is Minato docking?

I dunno, probably. Though if you look up your name it probably has some meaning.

I know,I don't know for the other cultures of the world,but us europeans use names that has a meaning in ancient greek,latin,hebrew,slavic and soo on


But no culture gives someone a name of a direct item or an animal, like Itachi=wiesel

Imagine if you were named sheep in your languange
 
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It seems one of the ways Kishi is making his stuff .
 

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I know,I don't know for the other cultures of the world,but us europeans use names that has a meaning in ancient greek,latin,hebrew,slavic and soo on


But no culture gives someone a name of a direct item or an animal, like Itachi=wiesel

Imagine if you were named sheep in your languange

Yeah, I get where you're coming from.
 

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In nearly every culture names have meaning ....

My own name ... Sayantan (It has nothing to do with Satan for God's sake) refers to last moment of evening and/or The eternal one.

Even well known English names such as 'Sam' have meanings in their origin words, in this case Samael the Venom of God.
 

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I'm so used to these names that even if I know its meaning,I dont feel it weird.
 

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Those names have a specific symbolism that is associated to the character; like Itachi for example: his name means weasel, and the weasel in the Japanese culture is associated to death…U_U I don’t know what a scarecrow is supposed to associate Kakashi to though… especially when you realize that the scarecrow lost to someone who uses crows…Lol
 

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Interesting, that's something I wondered as well.
 

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Hanabi means fireworks

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idk, japanese names are weird. So technically if there's fireworks going on, everybody is going to be saying that person's name?
 

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Hanabi means fireworks

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idk, japanese names are weird. So technically if there's fireworks going on, everybody is going to be saying that person's name?

Hanabi's name is written in Katakana so not really
 

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Hanabi means fireworks

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idk, japanese names are weird. So technically if there's fireworks going on, everybody is going to be saying that person's name?

I dont think so mate ... there are different words for different purpose I think, there will be a different word most likely. Funny thing is that the words 'Hinata' and 'Hyuga' can be represented by the same Kanji ..... which actually creates an actual confusion.
 

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Madara's name can be translated into cod which is a fish
 
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