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Re: shigeko
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As it is the case for nearly every Japanese name, there are several ways of writing the name Shigeko with kanji. In this case I found about 3 with comparable frequency of occurence with the help of Google, each with a different meaning.I have picked the following variant which is used by a contemporary singer and some princess hundreds of years ago: It is written with the following two kanji:
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=91cd
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=5b50The use of an attribute like "heavy" for a Japanese girl name is a little surprising...
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