looking for a japanese name

[gunblade007]

ok everyone i got a quick question i was wounding if the name shunsuke can also be an girl's name or is it just a boy's name?
-Joe

[SSJup81]

I could be wrong, but I don't think it can be a girl's name.

[emiluvsjmusic]

Shiori...?

[gunblade007]

well i was curious if shunsuke could be a girl's name too because if you look up shun it's a girls name in japan. but there is guys with the name shun too. the chinese version it's both a unisex name. but i could be wrong about shunsuke it could just be a boy's name.
-Joe
p.s. do you pronounce the name shiori like story? because my friend,john's wife is having a baby next month and the name sound like stori.

[emiluvsjmusic]

Originally Posted by gunblade007

well i was curious if shunsuke could be a girl's name too because if you look up shun it's a girls name in japan. but there is guys with the name shun too. the chinese version it's both a unisex name. but i could be wrong about shunsuke it could just be a boy's name.
-Joe
p.s. do you pronounce the name shiori like story? because my friend,john's wife is having a baby next month and the name sound like stori.

I'm not sure... but I doubt shunsuke would be a girl's name
when a name ends in suke its usually a boy's name

about shiori - i guess a lot of english speakers would pronounce it like story (emphasizing on the "o" sound) but in japanese you would pronounce the name with more emphasis on the "shi" sound

[gunblade007]

well emiluvsjmusic
my friend,john is half-japanese and i didn't know it was a japanese name. so how do you pronounce shun anyway? i heard shun pronounce shong and shoein.
-Joe

[tsunami16r]

As Emiluvsmusic said Shunsuke could only be a guy's name and you pronounce Shun like 'put'. I can't really come up with a good example

Oh, and about the girls names you posted earlier (1)~(5).. well Shinko, which is (1), isn't really a Japanese name. It does sound like it but hm, I doubt that any Japanese girl has it as her name. The others sound right, though. What about Shion or Shiori? Those are some names I came up with for a Japanese girl's name

[gunblade007]

ok tsunami16r,
i was just wounding because i know there is some guys name shun and shun is a girl's name in japan like shun from knights of the zodiac/saint seiya, street fighter alpha movie, bakugan,virtua fighter, the main villain capcom's platform game,'' LEGEND OF KAY'' but how do you pronounce the name ''SHION'' ? i heard the name ''SHUN'' pronounce both shong and shoe-n.
-Joe

[Nagoyankee]

There seems to be so much misinformation in this thread. As a Japanese native speaker, I'd like to help clarify a few items if not everything.

1. Forget about that website that generates your Japanese name from your original name. That's just rediculous. Why do you even think that someone can give you both Japanese first name and last name? Your name will stay the same except for the pronunciation and the way it's written. If your name is John Smith, it will be ジョン・スミス（pronounced 'Jon Sumisu'）. It will NEVER be Takeshi Yamamoto.　

2. Almost no parents would name their daughter (or son) Shinko because it sounds too much like the colloquial word for a male body part that I won't identify on JF.

3. When you hear "Japanese" names in manga/anime/video games, don't automatically think they actually exist in the real world. I've never met or heard of a female named Shun. It sounds very masculine in the Japanese ear.

[DivineBled]

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