need help on zekken

[mystic_kendoka]

if i want to make a zekken, should i have my name in katakana or kanji? im korean so i have a chinese equivalent, to my name, which is Han SeoungHoun... 韓昇勳, but i also know that if this is read by a japanese person, it would be read differently, i kno that han would become gan when read as kanji,

so wat i mean to ask is, should i have my name in katakana or kanji? i'd rather have it in kanji, but it would be kinda weird if i was called another name too...

[xvikingx]

Do you even bother asking someone at your dojo, or searching the forum for information? If you had even tried to reread old threads you would have found the answer to your question. The people at your dojo would probably like you to print your zekken a certain way. So ask them!

[Nanbanjin]

if i want to make a zekken, should i have my name in katakana or kanji? im korean so i have a chinese equivalent, to my name, which is Han SeoungHoun... 韓昇勳, but i also know that if this is read by a japanese person, it would be read differently, i kno that han would become gan when read as kanji,

so wat i mean to ask is, should i have my name in katakana or kanji? i'd rather have it in kanji, but it would be kinda weird if i was called another name too...

Please don't start this again.
Refer to the following threads...

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1910

http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1771

[HawaiianKendoka]

If your Korean then why don't you have your name written in Korean

[MaxHanzo]

if i want to make a zekken, should i have my name in katakana or kanji? im korean so i have a chinese equivalent, to my name, which is Han SeoungHoun... 韓昇勳, but i also know that if this is read by a japanese person, it would be read differently, i kno that han would become gan when read as kanji,

so wat i mean to ask is, should i have my name in katakana or kanji? i'd rather have it in kanji, but it would be kinda weird if i was called another name too...

Hi,

I know a korean descendant that practices kendo in a dojo in Brazil(Yun Lee, and he is the first korean descendant that won a tournament in Brazil), he did what you're talking about. He wrote his name using kanji on his zekken. I wonder whether what is written in his zekken is his full name or just his surname, because I'm unable to read it. But, I'd suggest that you asked the people in your dojo, or asked some kenshi from Korea.

[mystic_kendoka]

If your Korean then why don't you have your name written in Korean
isnt a zekken only useful if people can identify/read it?
but i guess having korean wld be special too...
ill ask my sensei..

[jasmine]

what about use in chinese ,japanese and kereon words

[mystic_kendoka]

all three? wldnt that look a bit hectic? since i want some english there as well?

[Shazzanzzz]

i know a lot of koreans that do kendo/kumdo, they all have their names in chinese on the zekken.

Don't worry about how they'll pronounce your name so much. Like 林, chinese people'll pronounce it Lin, Japanese will will Hayashi, i think, and they still all put that on their zekken. Your name could be a chinese name too, so, i don't know if you care about that. And your last name is basically pronounced the same way in Korean and Chinese, don't know about Japanese, i think it's kon, not sure though.

[Neil Gendzwill]

We have a Korean fellow in our dojo, his zekken has the kanji for his name, which is Baik - the kanji is the one for the colour white, so maybe Japanese people will call him "Shiro", I don't know. Anyways I think if you're Korean or Chinese kanjii is fine.

[Eldritch Knight]

Yea, I'd go with Chinese. Its the "higher" language, anyway

[mystic_kendoka]

thank you, i'm goin to have it in kanji

[Crash]

I am having the same dilemma. I am korean as well. My sensei said i can put whatever i want on the zekken. "It's just a name card" he says. So i am going to write my name with Korean characters. I am korean, very proud to be. I just hope that i am not insulting anyone by doing so. My name will also be written in english on the bottom.

[mystic_kendoka]

mine's been ordered, not as korean, but as hanja, instead of having it translated to kanji... so instead of mr han, my zekken will say, my gan... o well..

[Crash]

mine's been ordered, not as korean, but as hanja, instead of having it translated to kanji... so instead of mr han, my zekken will say, my gan... o well..
Close enough.

[mystic_kendoka]

and under it will be my name sungi :) its really funny, on the left top i have the belgian flag, and under it in a vertical line, my dojo name, then on the right, vertical, my name in hanja, then horizontal, it says sungi...

(this is funny because i pronounce it soon-gee, its my abbr for seounghoun but if u pronounce it sun-gee, it means penis in korean...)