von Masayuki » Fr 17. Januar 2003, 15:08
The meaning of Lain's name
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The kanji for Lain is: —批 .
According to online Japanese dictionaries:
—æ = rei = sound of jewels
‰¹ = in = sound, noise
so therefore, Lain = "the sound of jewels"
What that means or what a jewel sounds like, I have no idea.
—批 can also be written as ‚ê‚Ë and therefore romanized as "rene", though of course we always hear Lain's name pronounced as "rei-in".
das ist von thought experiments lain (die seite kennt ja wohl jeder ^_^)