Subject: [FFML] Re: [Info Request] The English meanings of the Senshi's names
From: kukuru@mac.com
Date: 8/30/2000, 1:37 AM
To: "ffml@fanfic.com" <ffml@fanfic.com>



Berk Watkins wrote:



Berk Watkins wrote:

My take is Eternal distruction, or I like to use Silence. Firefly of
Silence. There are many other alternatives that can be explored from the
combination of Earth/dirt and Crumble/distruction such as opposites as in
Life and death.

Or.. fireflies rising from the earth.. which is symbolic in the Japanese
mind with the souls of the dead departing..


That's an interesting way to look at it. Her names is probably the hardest
as I have mentioned. And at times all can be right as poetry rarely
latches on to a single concept.


Mizuno the sign for water.  Mizu=water
Hino is fire.  Hi[one of the ponoucations]=fire
Kino is metal. Ki[In this case] = metal

Actually, if memory serves.. Ki as in 'Wood' ..  Minako's planet, Venus, is
the metallic planet..  Her name doesn't fit the rest of the scheme because
her name was made up in Codename Wa: Sailor V, before Naoko had developed
Sailormoon.


Ki is wood, rather tree.
Ki can also mean energy.

The shorter they are the more annoying it becomes in japanese. This is why
we need kanji's. And I wish they had adopted Chinese's four tone, vowel
system. Gives me headaches.

Kinoe, fitting with the calendar system is armor, metal or most powerful.
As in 1st grade. While this is a 1 character kanji, the japanese related
it to its basics elements in this case metal.

And I don't think lightning would do well with wood.

Hinoe, and Mizunoe are also one character kanjis too. Tsukino, would work
if they used that other pronoucation with moon.

I hope this doesn't spam too much, might need to go to privite.

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