Ayumi's Name is Ayumi... Read before posting about Kurumi!!
 

Heh, I've read about that recently on Wikipedia. I thought it was still a controversy/mystery with that other/original name. I didn't know it was for one movie only though. But she was infact credited as Hamasaki Ayumi for Nagisa no Sindbad...

haha :yes

They have been talking about it recently?

Hm,

I thought it was Kayumi Amaguri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlxQ...=Ayumi%20bobby

=P

^A few recent threads has walked into the subject of her name on later pages.

Thanks for making sure to clear it up for everyone Delirium-Zer0

Thank you for clearing this out. But I wouldn't be myself if I didn't ask, where did you get this info, Delirium-Zer0? ;)

Hehe, I take anything you say as given, I somehow decided to trust you.

@kirika I belive the source is herself, with what information she has collected and conclusions she has made throughout the years.

i thought kurumi is chinese name of ayu used in malaysia or china...

Also doesn't wikipedia have the Chinese kanji for her name marked as the "real" kanji for her name? 濱崎歩 is what they say her real name is, but I think that's just the Chinese, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her real Japanese name.

浜崎歩 is her given birth name, whereas 浜崎あゆみ is her artist name. According to my teacher it's written in the Japanese law that everyone must have a 100% kanji name.

For the reference, kanji is the symbols the Japanese have borrowed from china, in many cases giving them new meaning and pronounciation.

i've never heard of that law immel .. i have japanese friends who doesnt have their names with full Kanji

and the chinese kanjis were not borrowed from china.. china taught their writting to japanese and they just modify it ( like koreans did) just to clear things up

^I didn't literally mean borrow, it's usually called that when a country uses words from another language. Thanks for the information though :).

her chinese name is written and pronounced in pin yin like this, "Bing ching Bu" (correct me pls with the Pin Yin..)

and about the Chinese kanji and the japanese

Chinese 濱崎歩
Japanese 浜崎あゆみ or 濱崎歩 ( its the same)

:P its Bin Qi (Hamasaki) Ayumi (Bu).

haha. alright. i have learned to accept that her name is Ayumi Hamasaki.

alternarist: thanks for clearing it up.. haha :D
same kanjis but different pronounciation..
therefore, japanese and chinese people are actually the same origin...

Ooh...before I thought that 濱崎歩 was used only because the 浜 from 浜崎 doesn't exist in Chinese, thus they used a homonym, which is 濱 and it means the same thing...and that they had to translate あゆみ into 歩 since it literally means step (other wise they can't translate あゆみ because it's Japanese characters). Thanks for clearing this up, I was so confused before.

I never heard that law, and my cousin is Japanese. I think that 浜崎歩 is possibly her real name, not 濱崎歩.

A lot of names are hiragana-only, they don't have kanji equivalents, so I'm not so sure about this law that you're talking about.

Whoups, I'm extremely sorry, I misstyped when writing her name, ofcourse I meant 浜崎歩! I'll edit my post immediately.

I'm not sure either, I was just quoting my teacher who lived there for several years, he's not from Japan though.

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm tired of redoing the wikipedia article where it says REAL NAME: HAMASAKI KURUMI. I have to keep editing it..

how do you know she doesnt spell "ayumi" like this "歩美" ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi

I am pretty sure that 濱崎歩 is her given name in kanji because she mentioned it off-handedly in a Hey! Hey! Hey! episode before (read this entry which is only in Japanese).

Next is Hamasaki Ayumi-san, who has the exact same kanji as ayu's real/given name!

You know, it's soooo cool. They have all the fun with names, switching kanjis, writing it with hiragana/katakana... elsewhere it's soo boring >__>


BTW, did you notice Utada Hikaru has her name written in katakana? 宇多田ヒカル instead of 宇多田光. Oh, she's such a copycat! XD

That's interesting, I was sure it was "spelled" with 浜 originally.

Does anyone actually know for sure?

She wants to be a k00l gurl.

btw, shouldnt it be 光る　instead of 光 (hikari)?

IIRC in some of her early acting stuff she was credited with the kanji given name.

Koda Kumi's artist name is also different from the Kanji she uses in her real name.

I'm sure you're right. I remember in the beginning of her (pre-music) idol video, there was a scroll at the bottom which listed her given name as 濱崎歩, but the box art had her name written as we know it today, 浜崎あゆみ.

There's also this one .. photo.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4849/ayu5ck.jpg

Dunno what it's from but it's her real name xD

Can someone explain the difference in meaning of 浜 and 濱 to me? I don't know any of those kanjis.

There's also the possibility that the people who made the movies spelled it with 濱 by mistake, but that is extremely unlikely... hehe.

I bet she found the current "hama" easier to write than the other one xD



Seems not. That lil' kanji seems to have a lot of readings depending on the use. Plus, if there's that "kanji-only names" law, they wouldn't let her.

Very true, hehe.

@CREA.tive, how much the same thing? I know they're pronounced the same way, but are the meaning of the kanjis the exact same? Or is it like shinde said, that 浜 doesn't exist in chinese?

^I meant the Japanese pronounciations/meanings, but thanks for the info.

o_o i think it should just stay as 浜崎あゆみ　makes everytin easier :D

Ah, that sounds like a good explaination.

BTW, What's the difference between simplified Chinese and traditional? Is it just simpler characters or does it carry differences in pronounciation/grammar or such?/..

Regarding the 浜崎あゆみ or 濱崎歩

濱崎歩 is the chinese name for ayumi
あゆみ is the hiragana for 歩
歩 actually means ayumi
so in japanese it's 浜崎歩 but they use the hiragana for 歩 which is あゆみ

damn straight.

Ayumi is means walk, right?

Actually her given name wasn't the problem, since it (as kanji) appears the same everywhere, the confusion was with 濱 and 浜.