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Clox
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Hmmm

Postby Clox » July 26th, 2007 5:01 am

Hmmm, so i was looking at this 冴尼様 and it stumped me a little bit. It is hard to make out the characters. But this is what i came up with.

冴 - (I have no idea what this means)

尼 - This I believe is "nun" (I think, somewhere along those lines)

様 - I believe this is "even or equal" (maybe)

It's pretty foggy and with me not knowing the first character kind of makes it hard to put the whole thing together. Anyway if anyone knows what these three characters means that would be great even what they mean when they are combined. Also if it's not to much trouble i wouldn't mind seeing the kana form to make up the first character since i don't know it (i just copied and pasted from a letter hehe).

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Postby Belton » July 26th, 2007 6:36 am

This is just from my dictionary

冴 [ご] (n) being clear, being serene, being cold, being skillful
also it's cross referenced to さえ
さえ〔頭・腕の〕 : brilliance

尼 is (Buddhist) nun but I don't think it's used on it's own much.

様 is さま an even politer form of さん

There is the possibility this could be an insult depending on context I suppose.
But it got zero hits on google, even leaving out sama it only returned 1 hit so you'd wonder about it's usage.

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Postby Bueller_007 » July 26th, 2007 2:31 pm

You've either got the kanji wrong or it's a very rare name.

Clox
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Postby Clox » July 26th, 2007 3:08 pm

It's actually a very rare name, and thank you for the feedback^^

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