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.