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There is female Japanese name "Midori," and I want to know the ways I can
write it. I know it means "green," but maybe the name and "green" are
different words sometimes.

I used google-translator to get variants. I want to know if all of those
variants are used to write the name Midori. Otherwise I am interested in what
they mean.

  * 緑
  * 翠

As far as I can understand, the first variants are kanji and next ones are
hiragana:

  * ミドリ
  * みどり and みどりの

What is the difference between these? What does the "no" mean?
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Can I write Japanese name "Midori" this way - 緑?
Searching on a name dictionary you'll get a [long long list (93) of "midori"
as a girl's given
name](http://www.nihongoresources.com/nbrowse/midori?action=names&section=dictionaries&page=names&sub=&type=start&search=midori&nametype=0&submit=+search%3E+).
This excludes "midori" being used as a family name or a place name.

"Midori" is not limited to the kanji for green though. It can be made up of
other kanji having `名乗り` (nanori - name reading) of "mi", "do", "ri", "mido",
"dori" compounded to form "midori".

And yes you can use `緑` or `翠` as a standalone kanji for the name Midori.

For brevity I will not list all 93:

> Kana and Kanji mix:
>

>> みど梨

>>

>> みど理

>>

>> みど里

>>

>> み外里

>>

>> み登り

>
> 3 Kanji compounds:
>

>> 三十里

>>

>> 三都里

>>

>> 光巴里

>>

>> 光都里

>>

>> 妙登利

>
> 2 Kanji compounds:
>

>> 三彩

>>

>> 光鳥

>>

>> 実酉

>>

>> 常緑

>>

>> 碧里

There is also the possibility that a name is spelled purely in Hiragana:

> みどり

In this case, writing that person's name using Kanji would be wrong.

For Midorino:

> `緑野 [みどりの]` (Don't worry about the meaning of "no" it's just the way the
> name sounds) it can be both a girl's name and a family name.
>
> `緑埜 [みどりの]` is a family name instead of a girl's name.

Alternatively it could be Midori + Genitive case marker の.

> i.e. `みどりの本` to mean "Midori's book"
>
> or `緑の本` to mean "a green (coloured) book"
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I'm sorry to inform you that there are many, many different ways to write the
Japanese name Midori, as you can see from [this search of a name
dictionary](http://www.jisho.org/words?jap=%E3%81%BF%E3%81%A9%E3%82%8A&eng=&dict=enamdic&romaji=on).
If you need to know how to write a specific woman's name, you probably need to
ask her.

As for your other question about みどりの, the の is a word that comes between a
word and the word it's describing. みどりの湯飲み ( _midori no yunomi_ ), for
instance, means "a green teacup" (or "Midori's teacup").
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緑 just means 'the color green'.

翠, imagine a bird has green, beautiful wings. It's like the 'clean, beautiful,
incredible color green'. So, this kanji is often used for a given name. You
can find かわせみ, which is a bird that lives around the river. It has beautiful
wings. The kanji 翠 is read `せみ` or `み` in 翡翠. Not really sure which.... But it
means 'that lovely green color'. 翡's first kanji also means 'beautiful green',
but it's for male birds. 翠 means 'that lovely green color', but it's for
female birds.

ミドリ is for anime/manga, if someone is being emotional, you use katakana to
express emotion. 緑の is a の-adjective, like `The green (something).`. 緑 is a
noun, as in `緑が好きです。`.
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