Talk:Hiro Hamada/@comment-3444885-20140920004044

So I'm stuck at home with a cold and I decided to Google a bit about Tadashi and Hiro's (possible) Japanese names. Japanese names use 'kanji', which, put simply means that there are multiple ways to write your name (but everyone only has one way that they use; for instance, if your name is Charlye, you would never spell it Charlie). That means that there are many ways to write 'Hiro' and 'Hamada'. I went ahead and grabbed them all here.

Hamada, Hiro (はまだ ヒロ): 浜田 裕 浜田 寛 浜田 浩 濵田 裕 濵田 寛 濵田 浩 濱田 裕 濱田 寛 濱田 浩

Hamada can also mean "seashore rice paddy", which is weird... but if you google 'rice paddies near the ocean', they're really pretty, haha. Hiro's name can mean different things depending on the kanji. Using 浩 means "prosperous", 寛 means 'generous' or 'tolerant', and 裕 means 'abundant'. Pretty cool...