The Symbols on Beat's Shirt in Jet Grind Radio...

Post by **racketboy** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:12 am

Does anybody have a large, clear sample of them and/or know if there is any japanese significance to them?

Post by **4ppleseed** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:46 am

The symbols are Be and To, which is about as close as you can get to 'Beat' in Japanese. And the significance is that it's his name, but I think you already know that ...

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:59 am

4ppleseed wrote:The symbols are Be and To, which is about as close as you can get to 'Beat' in Japanese. And the significance is that it's his name, but I think you already know that ...

Can you point out some normal-looking examples of the symbols?

Post by **marurun** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:32 am

ビート

I believe that's what he has on his shirt. Romanized "Biito"

You have to have Asian Font support installed, BTW.

Post by **4ppleseed** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:58 am

racketboy wrote:
4ppleseed wrote:The symbols are Be and To, which is about as close as you can get to 'Beat' in Japanese. And the significance is that it's his name, but I think you already know that ...
Can you point out some normal-looking examples of the symbols?

You'll find them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese

Post by **marurun** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:24 pm

Yeah, that's a really great link, but I doubt someone who doesn't know Japanese it going to take the time to go through all that.

Post by **extrarice** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:51 pm

marurun wrote:ビート

I believe that's what he has on his shirt. Romanized "Biito"

You have to have Asian Font support installed, BTW.

.gif version of the katakana:

The lower symbols ("ga mu", i.e. Gum) is what's on the woman's shirt.

Short version: katakana is one of the two phonetic alphabets in Japanese. It's usually reserved for "loan words", like words from a different country. Like "Coffee" or "Cake" or "Ice Cream" would usually use katakana.

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:54 pm

Wow -- never thought I'd learn so much from a simple question

You guys rock!

Post by **4ppleseed** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:08 pm

marurun wrote:Yeah, that's a really great link, but I doubt someone who doesn't know Japanese it going to take the time to go through all that.

I don't know Japanese but that's where I quickly found the answer

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:13 am

just curious... what symbols would spell out "racket"? or at least something close to it...