Ayu's Name
 

This is so random...but have you guys ever noticed that like, Ayu's name is really pretty written?

Like in my itunes, when I see it next to other Japanese names, it's all curvy and interesting looking.

I think it's really pretty to look at. To me, the characters for her last name look really unique...but that may just be because I don't really know a lot about kanji...

what do you guys think?

Well I think that's because she doesn't use her given name's kanji, so her name stands out in my iTunes too.

I agree :)
I always think it looks beautiful.

I always liked it because it stood out. Koda Kumi's looks so generic to me, and Namie's is just so...long. :laugh I like that Ayu's has the simplicity with it. :)

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浜崎あゆみ --> these are the only 5 kanji / hiragana I know :D

yeah i think so too..
the hiragana for "ayumi" is very cute and the kanji for "hamasaki" wasnt as difficult as the one in namie's name..

hers is the only name i actually recognize xD and yes, it looks pretty artistic^^

Yes, it looks pretty... And her name has pretty meaning ; )

浜 崎 あ ゆ み
Hama saki A yu mi
Kanji vs Hiragana

I think ayumi looks pretty because it's in Hiragana. I thought that most Japanese ppl write their personal (first in the US) names in Kanji or Katagana (names derived from non japanese origins) when they're older, but ayu still writes in Hiragana lol. I guess she's a child for life. But the kanji for Ayumi is 歩, or step.

it's cool looking, but I could never write it. too bubbly looking, the symbols for a-yu-mi. look too similar to me. and the yu looks like a fish.

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I like how her name is pronounce in Chinese 浜崎歩 (Bing Qi Bu) but, 浜崎 あゆみ is nice too.

Her name looks very unique in Japanese.

lol, random yes it is ^^
but i have to agree

when pronounced, her name has a certain audible flow that a "harsh" language like Japanese usually lacks. it's just so much fun to say and write her name!

I love it! It's always so curly, though I love Namie's name better.....but I just like complicated characters more lol

hmm..hamasaki doesnt look that pretty to me o_O but ayumi looks pretty :)
i never cared for the "beauty" of the words unless im trying to write it out xD
and, i think namie's name is really consistant or something, and looks like a straight row of words with around the same strokes.
it's an entirely different story when it comes to signatures ;)

Japanese is a harsh language? I don't think so. XD

I think that Ayu's birthname is 濱崎歩, isn't it? Still pronounced the same, which is what I prefer. But I think that 浜崎あゆみ also has a sort of...grace about it. :P
Especially when written cursively.

me too, it sounds so cute in Chinese ^^


but yeah i love the look and sound of her name ^^
あゆみ is fun to write :D　浜崎 is kinda difficult though

I would love to see Ayu's signature when she signs in Japanese....but I don't think she ever does?

Maybe that's it. Because the letters are so much more curved than in other people's names. It's really pretty.

Like I think it would look so cool on like, some giant banner with really interesting ink.

@pomegranate: Namie's name is crazy. The characters are so full and there's like 5 of them. I could never fail to recognise her name lol

Lol maybe Namie based SO CRAZY off of her name XD

I recognize her name that way too...so many strokes while Ayu's is so curly and loopy ♥

yeah like...it's crazy loopy when compared to all these other names...this is what I see anyway lol

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5259/namesi.jpg

I don't know if that's really indicative of the average name in Japan.

and I didn't know she made a song based off her name :laugh It is crazy...I would have never thought you could use so many characters to say a relatively short name lol

I guess the closest to the loopiest is Ami Suzuki XD

Lol exactly XD Ayumi Hamasaki is a lot longer than Namie Amuro

Namie's name is kinda easy to write.....though I can't say the same for the artist above ayaka :laugh

god I barely even remember which one is ayaka lol

oh right...The one above it is "Shiori Takei"...I didn't listen to her much...maybe you should try her pomegranate, she has some nice ballads...and a really nice voice....some are a bit jazzy though.


I really like Sonomi Tameoka's name too, which is 為岡そのみ.

it's less interesting to you because is written in hiragana, the japanese syllables alphabet used to write all the grammatical components of the sentences but is used as well to write all the names or words.

Well, Ayu's name is 歩 really but I thought she wrote ayumi in hiragana as her artist name just to stand out...? Or am I totally wrong? I just thought I heard it somewhere...

Ayumi Hamasaki, the name I'll find it first in newspapers, internet, mags, and everything.

I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but actually most Japanese's personal names are in Kanji, but there are also many females who have their first name in hiragana.

Most of the time when someone has their name written in katakana it is when it's a foreign name (like 土屋アンナ Tsuchiya Anna, 木村カエラ Kimura Kaela, and 青山テルマ Aoyama Thelma), or when they simply opt to use katakana aesthetically as their artistic name if they're in the media.

But it is true that hiragana is viewed in a way "childish" or cute. In Ayu's case, I think they went for the hiragana because it's "cuter".

ayumi looks beautiful and simple at the same time, i like it, also it feels more personal than kanji

I agree emi :) I've always noticed that about her name. I can recognize her name in an instant XD.