Reply to Japanese/English Gematria on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:34:35 GMT

Seth Rah — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:34:35 GMT

Oh, I didn't see it before. That's my website.

You need to use the buttons or follow this convention (case sensitive):

A,E - Aleph
B - Beth
G - Gimel
D - Daleth
H - He
V,U,W - Vau
Z - Zayin
T - Teth
Y,J,I - Yod
K - Kaph
L - Lamed
M - Mem
N - Nun
S - Samekh
O - Ayin
P - Peh
Tz - Tzaddi
Q - Qoph
R - Resh
Sh - Shin
Th - Tav

Final letters:

k - Kaph
m - Mem
n - Nun
p - Peh
tz - Tzaddi

Anything outside it will not be calculated (c, x, et cetera).

.....and that's not designed for japanese. It's just a calculator (for hebrew gematria).

Reply to Japanese/English Gematria on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:51:26 GMT

kuniggety — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:51:26 GMT

I played around with it but I'm not sure how it's exactly working with these words. Try adding more letters on to kengaku for example - it doesn't change the value. IMO, Gematria only seems to work well when you translate the words into Hebrew. Trying to work directly with Japanese, IMO, isn't going to work too well. Take for example your kuruma which is only one rendering of the word. Another perfectly viable translation of the word would be kuluma. Or take tanoshii, which is an i adjective and so only written in such form when used as the sole adjective and in the nonnegative present or future tense. I think Japanese has it's only built in relation between words by the kanji choice in them. Some Japanese children play word games with this, and the Japanese are fond of puns because of this, but I think it's kind of turned out to be their equivalent of gematria.