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Japanese Names in Chinese

Please Note: This sample comes from data under development and may contain minor errors.

This data covers about 106,000 Japanese proper names written in simplified Chinese. This includes all common personal and place names, as well as many rare ones. Only names consisting entirely of kanji are given, which means that every single character of the original Japanese name must be a JIS kanji. This is necessary because hiragana/katakana have no equivalents in Chinese.

The following types of names are included:

1. Japanese personal names (surnames, female, and male)
2. Japanese and some non-Japanese place names
3. Some miscellaneous type of names, including common non-Japanese ones

The Japanese proper nouns are given in SC, and include pinyin, type classification, pinyin, the original Japanese, and the frequency ranking.

Field Description

1. ID: Number("JN" prefix for "Japanese Name")
2. Type: code (see also "FREQUENCY RANK" below)
• G: Given name (first name, male or female)
• S: Surname
• P: Place name
3. Type: code:
• F: Female given name
• G: Given name (first name)
• L: Name of literary work
• M: Male given name
• N: Personal name of unknown type (male, female or surname)
• O: Organization, company, temple etc.
• Or: Religious organizations such as temples and churches
• P: Place name
• Pc: Name of country
• S: Surname
• U: Name of unidentified type
• W: Whole name (surname + given name)
• *: Place name abbreviation (e.g. Pc* is country name abbrev.)
NOTE: 1. If a name can be classified under more than one TYPE, all the types are given, e.g. "SP" means "surname and also place name".
NOTE:2. Not all TYPEs necessarily appear in each phase of the project.
4. SC Japanese name: Encoded in GBK
5. Pinyin:Plus tone with hyphen separating syllables
• v: "u" plus umlaut, e.g."lv" is "l + u + umlaut"
• 1-4: tones 1 to 4
• 0: neutral tone
• *: no pinyin available, probably Japanese kokuji (guozi)
6. Frequency Rank: Frequency ranking *within each type* for the types "G" (Given), "S" (Surname), and "P" (Place) -- it is not an overall ranking that covers all types. This is more meaningful from a statistical point of view, and should be taken into account when making statistical analyses. The rank was calculated according to the number of occurrences in various sources.
7. Original: Japanese name encoded in GBK in the format"{J:" + (original Japanese) + "}"
8. Locale: Code place where name originates from
• C: China
• J: Japan
• R: Rest of the world
NOTE: This field is omitted, since all items are "J" for "Japan" by default. However, note that some common non- Japanese names are included.