Japanese characters

[KBMaster]

Okay, I'm trying to get pysched(sp?) about moving to TN by decorating my future room. I've discussed it with my sister and she has agreed(although she claims to have had "no choice in the matter") to red walls with black Japanese characters on the walls. Since she doesn't care and has told me to do what I want, I'm gonna be painting these characters, but I have no idea what to paint! If you guys can throw out some words that you would put on your wall, that would help so much! I need to start practicing. ^_^

[Lynx]

First of all, do you want katakana, hiragana, or kanji on your walls?

pick some words and put them on your walls, maybe stuff you value, like "love" and "Friendship" and stuff like that. maybe put your names on there too?

[Yumie]

Sounds like a cool idea! Since no one will no what they mean, I say just pick words that you think look cool and go with them, ha ha. You could put "celery" if it looked neat.

[peacetracati]

Sounds so wicked awesome!!!!!! I know a site where you can get Kanji signs, just go here
http://japanese.about.com/bl50kanji.htm

[Myoti]

Find where her bed is and paint a large "baka" sign over the headboard.

[Kaori]

Do you intend to ever learn kanji later in your life? If you do, I would suggest choosing characters that have some significance to you; otherwise, you might be wondering in a few years "why did I paint 'foot' on my bedroom wall?"

Another suggestion I would make is to learn the stroke order for the kanji you want to use; if you paint it in the proper stroke order, it will look much better than if you don't. This site (a different section of the website peacetracati linked to) is an index of kanji according to the grade they teach them in Japan:

http://japanese.about.com/blkodgrade1.htm

Most of these are fairly simple kanji, so they will be less difficult to draw, and the site will take you to a diagram that shows the stroke order if you click on the kanji you want.

[KBMaster]

Thanks! I'll definitely have to try these references.
Uhm, Myoti, she was looking when I read that. She read it too, so that idea's out.
I think I want kanji on the walls.
Maybe I'll put up pics when we get all moved and it's finished.

[Chiyocities]

I would definately second Kaori's link. Namiko Abe has some really great resources on kanji and the Japanese language in general (I use it myself to brush up).

[Hitokiri]

http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi-inon

Translates English to Japense, Japanese to Hirigana, Katakana, and Kanji, and then Japanese to English.

Though particles and honorifics (I believe) are no included though.

[Myoti]

Uhm, Myoti, she was looking when I read that. She read it too, so that idea's out.

Well, poo. XD

[KBMaster]

She's the one with the japanese-english dictionary, so she'd figure it out eventually. Although... I doubt stinky-head would be in there!

[Arnobius]

臭いの頭

[KBMaster]

O_O; ¿Que?

[Arnobius]

Although... I doubt stinky-head would be in there!

That was your translation: [size=100]臭]

[KBMaster]

HAHAHAHAHA!!! You actually found stinky head?!?! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I think it'll go quite nicely above her bed.

[Arnobius]

kusai indicates smelly
atama is head. Some things you need to know structure to do

[Destroyer2000]

Hey, I'm doing the same thing to my door frame in my new room (painting kanji, that is). Stragne. Lol, I am such a nerd when it comes to Japanese.

[oro!]

Yeah, i was thinking of putting some word in like five languages on my walls just to make it more interesting. Maybe courage, or friendship, or something like that.