[MMM]

Originally Posted by Amnell

That's why you go through and pick out the kanji that you like. I wouldn't recommend going and selecting random symbols, no. The two websites that I linked to kinda do that, hence I called them "fun little shortcuts" or something like that. If you really want to select good kanji for your name, you need to go through a really good dictionary and look at the meanings of each one.

In searching for kanji for a friend's name, I actually found I was able to construct a phrase--something I hadn't been able to do with my own >_< . It was a little icky, though, so.... I thought it was funny XD .

Anyway, the most I was able to do with my own name--and I would expect to be the extent to most gaijin names--was to select meanings that fit a theme or each seperately said something about one's personality (at least, how one percieves one's self :P ) . As a semantic unit, it might be gibberish, sure, but we're not trying to create a poem of meaning with our names.

魔...............魅.....................夢
a demon, spirit.....charm, enchant(ment)...a dream, vision
ma.......................mi..................................mu

or

MMM

It's not that hard. That took me less than five minutes. Given an hour, I might be able to find something better.

I appreciate your effort, but here is a great example why Japanese Kanji are for Japanese names.

You came up with Ma Mi Mu demon/charm/dream.

well 魔魅 itself is already a word, meaning "a deceptive or deceitful spirit" leaving 夢 on it's own, so it might be read mu, or maybe bou or maybe yume.

It's fun to play around with those websites if you like, but you are playing around with another country's culture.

I would guess 魔魅夢　was the name of a VK band...never the name of a person. It's bad luck to have negative kanji in your name, and I think "deceitful spirit" qualifies there.

If I wanted to write MMM in Japanese I would write MMM or エム・エム・エム.

Don't get me wrong, I am not calling anyone bad or crazy for trying this, but just don't take it seriously, or you will be disappointed or worse.