Konnichiwa I need help on naming a cat, we have dogs at our home but NOT ONE cat! My mom might be letting me get a cat, but I can’t think of a good name for one (male cat), I want it to me Japanese but also something that my little brother who is five to be able to pronounce it, if anyone has a cool name for a male cat I would love to here from you!!!

-星生

Shizu-san had a male cat named "Nora", from the phrase "noraneko", meaning "stray cat". Was your cat taken in as a stray? But now that I think about it, my older sister's name is "Laurel", and I had a lot of trouble pronouncing it as a young kid. Anyway, people might confuse it with the English name for females.

"Tiger" in Japanese is "tora", but that has a similar pronunciation problem. "Tiger cub," though, is "koji"-- and there are other words pronounced "koji" meaning "origin" or "tradition", "orphan" or "a lay Buddhist."

"Kitten" is "koneko."

"Yuugi" means "games" or "friendship." (Different kanji, but you don't have to tell anyone that.)

--Tony

I will be adopting him, he is all black and has green eyes...

星生さん、こんにちは。

クロちゃんではどうですか？
How about "Kuro-chan"?

"Kuro" means "black", and we often this name to a black cat. We tends to call a cat with "chan" for some reason, but when the cat was bad, we remove "chan" from him/her, lol.

Shizu

If it's a white cat you can name it Yuki for snow. If it's black it could be Yami for darkness. A good name is also Kusushita meaning socks if the cat has colored paws. Maybe a brown cat can be Kohi for coffee color.

What does every one think of ¥en? I think it's cute and easy!!! Let me know!!!