Bannana fanna fo fanna
Well, the time has come to make a decision, since sticking with "big bean" is probably not going to cut it as the child goes through school. Big bean, coincidentally, would be a direct translation of the Japanese for "soybean", but anyways...
Here are the candidates. I'm not using any official romanization system, be beware that vowels in romanized Japanese are always of the shortest kind unless annotated otherwise. e.g. "a" as in "Inca", not as in "cat". Also, the Japanese don't distinguish between L and R. All instances of words containing that sound have tongue position some place in between.
Romanized Name
Japanese
Kanji Candidates
Rena
れな
麗奈、麗那、玲奈
Reina
れいな
玲奈
Karen
かれん
Were thinking just hiragana for this one.
Karin
かりん
Ditto here
Anna
あんな
Haven't thought about it yet. Suggestions welcome.
Given the above, guessing the sex of the child is left as an exercise for the reader.
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