Content. in Japanese. Name. Boy names. Girl Names. Last names. Things to know about Japanese first names. 6. it rings, Thomas. トマス. to-ma-su. Charles. チャールズ. cha-ru-zu. Longer ー sounds can be found from time to time but, again, this does not seem to be precise. Most of the time, you will first need to make horizontal lines before making vertical lines. You'll also want to start with the horizontal strokes closest to the upper left corner. Whenever you start writing a kanji, start here. This is usually where your first trait will reside. Just like hiragana, katakana are made up of basic characters: the table above shows five vowels a, I, u, eo and a few consonants k, s, t, h, m, n, r, y, w, f. Japanese people generally don't separate vowels and consonants, so you'll almost always find that a katakana equals one syllable. This is why consonants are always attached to a. Modern Japanese names 日本人の氏名 nihonjin no shimei usually consist of a family name, followed by a given name. This order is standard in Asian countries, while middle names are generally not used. Japanese names are spelled in Chinese characters 漢字 kanji in Japanese pronunciation. Japanese surnames, Zenitsu name starts with the first Kanji character 善 Zen which means good and the second Kanji character 逸 Itsu means unique person. Agatsuma Zenitsu is one of the Japanese character names in Demon Slayer. Therefore, the general meaning of Zenitsu's name would be a good and unique person.