實子

English translation: Jitsuko

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Japanese term or phrase:	實子
English translation:	Jitsuko
Entered by:	Nobuo Kawamura

17:39 Sep 6, 2004

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Japanese term or phrase: 實子

A name database says this could be either "Tomiko" or "Chikako," but I wasn't able to find anything on Google for either of these names. I found one "Jitsuko" on Google with these characters, but one match is not enough for me to be sure on this.
Please help! It's for a 戸籍. If you can provide references or tell me why you believe that (you know someone with that name, etc), that would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance.

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Local time: 02:37

Jitsuko

Explanation:
I have an aunt whose name is 實子 pronounced "Jitsuko", quite an ordinary name.

Selected response from:

Nobuo Kawamura
Japan
Local time: 16:37

Grading comment

After I submitted the translation I found out from the client that it was actually Jitsuko (fortunately I had put Jitsuko), so I am awarding points to Nobuo Kawamura. However, since it is a name reading I recognize it could easily have been one of the others, so thank you, everyone, for your help.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

Jitsuko

Nobuo Kawamura

Hiroko

Mumu Watanabe (X)

Saneko

jsl (X)

Mitsuko, Tsuneko

Maynard Hogg

Answers

2 hrs confidence:

Saneko

Explanation:
Not to mention, "實" is the old character of "実", Indeed, "実" is "jitsu", but it has another pronunciation, "sane", as in "実はぎ" (sanehagi), "実葛" (sanekazura), etc. The family name of my senior is "広実", and is called "Hirozane", where "s" is changed to "z" due to the so-called rendaku (連濁) effect. You may find "Saneko" in the web pages below:

Reference: http://www5.big.or.jp/%7ekuniy/OUT/toukou/97_3/nandemo.html
Reference: http://www.din.or.jp/%7ewa6/namae/sa.html

jsl (X)
Local time: 16:37
PRO pts in category: 32

3 hrs confidence:

Jitsuko

Explanation:
I have an aunt whose name is 實子 pronounced "Jitsuko", quite an ordinary name.

Nobuo Kawamura
Japan
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

7 hrs confidence:

實子 Mitsuko, Tsuneko

Explanation:
My JIS漢字字典 lists kan, sane, zitsu, tane, chika, tsune, nori, hiro, mi, and mitsuko. Only the last has an example with 子.

Maynard Hogg
Canada
Local time: 00:37
Native speaker of: English

1 day 5 hrs confidence:

實子 Hiroko

Explanation:
I had a classmate whose name was pronounced Hiroko.

Reference: http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&q=%E5%AF%9B%E5...

Mumu Watanabe (X)
Local time: 16:37
Native speaker of:

Japanese

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