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:(Also, just as a hint, you can sign and date your talk page comments with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, like I'm about to do:) [[User:Vashti|Vashti]] ([[User talk:Vashti|talk]]) 05:53, 24 November 2023 (UTC) | :(Also, just as a hint, you can sign and date your talk page comments with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, like I'm about to do:) [[User:Vashti|Vashti]] ([[User talk:Vashti|talk]]) 05:53, 24 November 2023 (UTC) | ||
:Typically, I verify the meaning of each individual kanji along with any possible multi-character compounds using Jisho. It's certainly not an infallible method, since most kanji have a variety of denotational and connotational meanings - for example, the 龍 ''ryū'' in Ryūji has a denotative meaning of "dragon," but a connotative meaning of "imperial" (as in the Japanese Empire of the nineteenth and early twentieth century). Most English-language dictionaries of Japanese names are woefully incomplete, so for quite a few names, I simply had to make do with reference and inference. | |||
:As I said before, I am absolutely not infallible - if something is wrong, please correct it! The site will be better if you do. I just wanted to give a bit of meaning to the Nomenclature sections of what will inevitably be our most popular pages, and try to put my Japanese degree to some use. [[User:Tenebra3|Tenebra3]] ([[User talk:Tenebra3|talk]]) 06:05, 24 November 2023 (UTC) | |||