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HelpRe: Japanese models' names
in reply to a message by mirfak
You've intrigued me about this, and I looked into it a little more.
Chihiro Oide, the model for Pretty Style, writes her name 千尋, the same as Chihiro in Spirited Away.
The second character definitely has something to do with questions. It's in the word 尋ねる (tazuneru), which means "to ask, to inquire".
It must also have something to do with distance, because when I looked 千尋 (chihiro) up in the dictionary as a word, I found the meanings "1. great depth (lit: thousand fathoms); bottomless" 2. great height". Another word with the same metaphoric meaning is 万尋 (banjin) , literally "ten-thousand fathoms".
I ran 千尋 through google.co.jp, and got the result that 千尋 = 1.8288 キロメートル (1000 fathoms = 1.8288 kilometres). lol
I think "great depth" was the intended meaning for the name - I wasn't actually aware that "chihiro" is a real vocabulary word until now. I'd just seen the character 尋 in alot of names containing "hiro" so I assumed it was chosen because of the sound.
Chihiro Oide, the model for Pretty Style, writes her name 千尋, the same as Chihiro in Spirited Away.
The second character definitely has something to do with questions. It's in the word 尋ねる (tazuneru), which means "to ask, to inquire".
It must also have something to do with distance, because when I looked 千尋 (chihiro) up in the dictionary as a word, I found the meanings "1. great depth (lit: thousand fathoms); bottomless" 2. great height". Another word with the same metaphoric meaning is 万尋 (banjin) , literally "ten-thousand fathoms".
I ran 千尋 through google.co.jp, and got the result that 千尋 = 1.8288 キロメートル (1000 fathoms = 1.8288 kilometres). lol
I think "great depth" was the intended meaning for the name - I wasn't actually aware that "chihiro" is a real vocabulary word until now. I'd just seen the character 尋 in alot of names containing "hiro" so I assumed it was chosen because of the sound.
This message was edited 12/8/2010, 1:58 PM
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Aha. That makes sense. I wonder how long Chihiro has been used as a name. Maybe it was chosen for the sound at some point - a namey word that could mean something namey, even though it doesn't necessarily. Like Destiny.
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