Help: Bert & Ernie's name in Kanji?

Vic Romano

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Does anyone know where to find, or how to write :frown: and :stick_out_tongue: 's name in Kanji (Japanese writing)? If not the characters for their name, how about "best friends"?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need it for some fan art. Thx!
 

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Sad thing is I SHOULD know this. If I gave you one, you'd have to double check, since I can only really give it to you phonetically. I;m sort of rusty...

However, I can tell you this.

The lettering isn't kanji, per se... Kanji being the Chinese set of characters that make up complex words... it would be in katakana, a series of letters used for foreign words and names...

Phonetically Ernie translates to "Ah-nee" (they have no equivvilant for the "er" sound, so they substitute a soft a) and Bert may be Ba-to.

So:

Ernie = ア-ニ- (notice use of hyphens to stress the vowel sound) and
Bert= バ-ト

But I'd double check with a Japanese sesmae Street website first.

Actually... never mind that last bit. I double checked for you, and I'm right. Remember the hyphens, though.
 

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Though apparently they arent main characters on the show.

Interesting. :frown::stick_out_tongue:
 

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And in case you need to know, "and" is と (to)
 

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wow, you really can find anything on the internet.
The worst part is that I did everything through memory and my knowledge of Japanese to English transliterations of cartoon character names and phonetics. All I had to do was click a couple times.
 

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Awesome. Thank you SO much. Just to clarify, "Bert & Ernie" translates to:
バート と アーニー
 

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And I can't WAIT to see what's in store with this artwork of yours. :stick_out_tongue: :frown:
 
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