Well, that was disconcerting...

[helen99]

I ran all the names of the Reiki symbols through the http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html japanese to English dictionary... and this is what I came up with...

Cho - Be Profitable
Ku - Bend over
Rei - Expression of gratitude (thank you).

Sei - True
He - Fart
Ki - Pure

Hon - Head
Sha - House
ze -
Sho - Many
Nen - Thoughts

Dai - Table
Ko - Selling, price, business
Myo -


While translation programs sort of tend to miss the actual meaning in Japanese (and there are many more than one meaning), and English spellings may be deficient, I'm beginning to sense a theme here...

Comments

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I've sen doctoral theses about translating kanji. And kanji can have multiple meanings based on context.

BEsides,w hich alphabet are these in: kanji or katakana/hiragana?

[helen99.livejournal.com]

truetrue.

The symbols represented by Japanese characters are Kanji. There are some symbols not represented by kanji though - so all I've seen is their English spellings.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

http://www.geocities.com/fascin8or/reiki_symbols.html This has some information on their translations that may be more helpful to you than an auto-translator.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Even using the translator, you can derive "Direct Spirit" or "Correctness of Spirit" as a meaning for Choku Rei. I'd actually derived that meaning from the translator before looking at the referenced page (which is a very nice reference, btw). I was more or less being (very) silly...

[foxchilde.livejournal.com]

also remember that atleast one of them is sanskrit in origin, but Im forgeting which one right now

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I think it's the Sei Heiki..
Which takes on completely different meaning when the last two syllables are attached than it does if they're detatched. Japanese must be an extremely difficult language.

[per-akh.livejournal.com]

Hehe...I'm amused by 'ku' and 'he'.

~Duo

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Yes, the whole theme of "You just dropped two bombs on us, so you deserve our "special business deal," suckah!" was highly amusing... But actually when taken contextually I think they do mean what the books claim, more or less. animelily would probably know more.