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Re: Male Name Teijo
I thought so because the ending jo is feminin. But o seems to be different?
Well if you should hear something `bout a male japanese Teijo, it would be great if you could post it here :-)
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Just thought I would add, that Goto Teijo wrote his name with the kanji "tei": "degree, extent" and "jo": "power" (in the mathematical sense, like powers of 10). So Teijo would not have to be written with the kanji for "woman," it's just that the vocabulary word meaning "virtuous woman" would come to mind when a Japanese person heard this name.
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10 years down the line and it seems this is still not resolved. If Teijo means righteousness then we shoukd find the exact meaning in a Japanese dictionary correct? But when you google what righteousness means in Japanese then you get something else then 'teijo'. Can clarify that?
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