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Mishiki is not Japanese
Hello!
I'm Japanese and I'm afraid Mishiki is not a Japanese name, either male or female.
It's true It sounds like Japanese but unfortunately it's not a human name.
You said you have googled Mishiki and found a lot of Japanese sites,so I did the same. And I found out that there are so many Mishiki as well,but the thing is, it was a site of a famous restaurant called 'Mishiki' and they made up the name. You found a lot of Japanese sites with mishiki and I think it's because many magazines or tourinst information sites have a search engines for restaurants and pubs and shops etc. so that even a stranger can get some information. Anyway, I read an introduction about the Mishiki restaurant and it said that the meaning of the name is " the colour of the taste". Very attractive name,I suppose.I hope it could help you somehow.
If you have any more quwstion,please ask.
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Mishiki existsHi.I think it is because of my handle name. I am a male Japanese.
One of the most famous "mishiki" is me, because I did some commercial illustration works. In my Chinese characters, "mishiki" literally means "not awakened yet".The URL below is my site.
http://ofo.jp/osakana/profile.phtmlBut, there are people who really named "Mishiki" in Japan.
A few years ago, A boy mailed me that his first name is the same as my handle name.
Also, you could find some "mishiki" in the following search, which collects more then 110,000 Japanese girls name.http://hpcgi1.nifty.com/ume20/f_search.cgi?yomi=%82%DD%82%B5%82%AB&search_target=yomi&search_moji=jinme&search_method=nomiThank you.

This message was edited 6/22/2006, 11:37 PM

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Thanks! I see that you searched by the Hiragana spelling and got to the Kanji. That is neat! Could you send the URL of the main search page? Now, the only question is what the chinese characters mean. It gives three spellings which I can look up as (order of pronounciation of the characters is Hang|Cant|HanPin|Mand|Kor|Viet|On|Kun)実紫姫
U+5b9f |||SHI2|SIL||JITSU SHITSU|MI MINORU MICHIRU
real, true; honest, sincere
U+7d2b *tziɛ̌|zi2|zi3(49)|ZI3|CA|tía|SHI|MURASAKI
purple, violet; amethyst; surname
U+59eb |||JI1|HUY||KI|HIME
beauty; imperial concubine
美紫姫
U+7f8e *myǐ|mei5|mei3(466)|MEI3|MI|mỉ|BI MI|UTSUKUSHII YOI HOMERU
beautiful, pretty; pleasing
U+7d2b *tziɛ̌|zi2|zi3(49)|ZI3|CA|tía|SHI|MURASAKI
purple, violet; amethyst; surname
U+59eb |||JI1|HUY||KI|HIME
beauty; imperial concubine
美織
U+7f8e *myǐ|mei5|mei3(466)|MEI3|MI|mỉ|BI MI|UTSUKUSHII YOI HOMERU
beautiful, pretty; pleasing
U+7e54 *jiək|zik1|zhi1(733)|ZHI1 ZHI4|CIK|chức|SHOKU SHIKI SHI|ORU
weave, knit; organize, unite
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You can only search from its top page."Girls' name dictionary" plan
http://www.dd.iij4u.or.jp/~ume20/f_name/Input hiragana in the edit box, and choose radio buttons.
choices mean like this:( )hiragana(pronunciation)  ( )all               ( )contain
(*)kanji                    (*)legal kanji only  (*)match perfectlyYou need to notice that this dictionary contains a lot of fictional names. Some kanji, having an evil meaning or very complexed , cannot be registered as a name by law in Japan. About 3000 types of kanji are legislated to name someone. This is why the second choice exists in the web page.Those three "Mishiki" can exists legally.First one is just ordered kanji by their sound and it looks little bit nonsense for me, but it literally means "purple fruit princess / girl".Second one is meaningful. it literally means "beautiful purple princess / girl". Purple is a color implies nobility.Last one also has a good meaning. it means "beautiful cloth / knit".

This message was edited 6/24/2006, 8:45 AM

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Thanks everyone!
ChrisellAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Thank You
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Thanks. I do not believe http://ofo.jp/osakana/profile.phtml is talking of a restaurant, but since I do not read Japanese, I am lost what it is talking about ... help? The same person/object/place is being talked about at http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:Mishiki.This is the 未識 I mentioned in my previous post, the restaurant you are talking about is probably in Nagoya and is often associated with the Kanji 洋魂和菜? (which is what?)
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