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Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal
I have a few of questions I am curious about.
1.) Do people in Japan have middle names?
2.) How are nicknames created?
3.) What does "kichi" mean added onto a name? Like if someone is named "Teru" and he is called "Terukichi"?
Thank you!  |
1) no
2) various ways, it's hard to state a single, short rule because there are multiple ways—can you tell me how nicknames in English are made? John->Jimmy? William->Billy? For example, I had a good friend in Japan named ふみや and one of the first days I met him we were making some gangster jokes or something and I called him ふみやろう in front of our entire tennis team and the nickname stuck. Probably was just the humor of a foreigner calling him やろう, though...
3) 吉:
Edit Nagoyankee explains it better than I.