names · 漢字 — cinema ES your wallpaper ↓
i · the name
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Melissa

メリッサ
from Greek mélissa — "bee"
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ii · three scripts

Three Japanese scripts. Two of them are fixed. The third one is not.

That is where a person has to choose, not a translator: a Japanese calligrapher who has already written the names of more than 500 people by hand, on the street, one by one.

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He chose 7 versions for this name. The one he recommends most is in the second half.
iii · kanji i
愛莉咲
me-ri-sa
love, the jasmine and the flower that opens
see what it means
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iv · about kanji i

愛莉咲

  • 愛mean overflowing love, loved by everyone
  • 莉rijasmine, the white flower with a strong scent
  • 咲sathe flower that opens
a flowering, well-loved name — for someone who opens up the day for the people near her.
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of being full of love and loved by everyone around you, having the scent of jasmine, and opening the way a flower opens.

v · kanji ii
恵理彩
me-ri-sa
the hand that gives, the reason of things and the color
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vi · about kanji ii

恵理彩

  • 恵megiving, sharing out what you have
  • 理rithe reason of things, understanding how they work
  • 彩sacolor, liveliness
a generous, wide-awake name — for someone who works it out and shares it too.
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sharing out what you have, understanding how things work, and putting color into what you touch.

see the other versions
vii · there is more

There are five more versions you are not seeing.

  • 瞳璃桜— the clear gaze and the colored jewel, under the cherry blossom
  • 萌里紗— the spring shoot and the warm home, over a fine silk
  • 芽律冴— the bud of what is beginning, at your own rhythm and with a clear mind
  • 愛凛沙— love and composure, with the care of fine sand
  • 恵利咲— the hand that gives and the quick mind, with the flower that opens
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iii 瞳璃桜
me-ri-sathe clear gaze, the colored jewel and the cherry blossom
  • 瞳methe pupil, the clear gaze that holds
  • 璃ricolored glass, the jewel that lets the light through
  • 桜sathe cherry tree in bloom, the spring of Japan
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of looking straight at things with a clear gaze, letting the light through like a colored jewel, and blooming the way the cherry tree blooms in spring.

choose this one
iv 萌里紗
me-ri-sathe spring shoot, the warm home and the fine silk
  • 萌methe sprout, the grass that shows in spring
  • 里rithe village, the warm place where people gather
  • 紗sathe fine silk that lets the light through
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of coming up the way the grass comes up in spring, being the warm place where people gather, and carrying the fine silk that lets the light through.

choose this one
v 芽律冴
me-ri-sathe bud, your own rhythm and a clear mind
  • 芽methe bud of new possibilities
  • 律riliving by their own rules and at their own rhythm
  • 冴saa clear mind, a wide-awake edge
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of keeping inside the bud of new possibilities, living by your own rules and at your own rhythm, and keeping a clear mind.

choose this one
vi 愛凛沙
me-ri-salove, composure and the fine sand
  • 愛mean overflowing love, loved by everyone
  • 凛ritemper, holding together
  • 沙safine sand, what is small and delicate
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of being full of love and loved by everyone around you, holding yourself together when it counts, and looking after what is small and delicate like fine sand.

choose this one
vii 恵利咲
me-ri-sathe hand that gives, the quick mind and the flower that opens
  • 恵megiving, sharing out what you have
  • 利rithe edge of a quick mind
  • 咲sathe flower that opens
this is how your card sounds 🔊

Your name carries the meaning of sharing out what you have, thinking with the edge of a quick mind, and opening the way a flower opens.

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viii · wallpaper
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愛莉咲
Melissa
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愛莉咲
Melissa
Being full of love and loved by everyone around you, having the scent of jasmine, and opening the way a flower opens.
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ix · from his own hand

This is how the calligrapher writes — three pieces, one hand.

Everything above is drawn by a typeface: a thousand Melissas, the same stroke. Not this one. The calligrapher dips the brush and writes yours a single time — the ink opens where it opens, the stroke breaks where it breaks.

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three pieces by the calligrapher · brush and ink on paper · none of them says your name yet
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x · for you, not for the name

Shall we choose your kanji together?

Everything above was chosen for the name Melissa — the same for any Melissa. A commission is different: you tell the calligrapher what matters to you, what you want to protect and who you want to become — and together you pick the best kanji.

If you are getting it tattooed, or you seriously want a kanji that is only yours — start here.

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xi · wear it

The same kanji, on something you can touch.

Your name printed on what you use every day. We do not sell the shirt: we give you the file and you take it to your printer.

愛莉咲
Melissa
T-shirt
愛莉咲
Mug
愛莉咲
Tote bag
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no background, at print size — there you choose the kanji, the lettering style and the orientation

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千 · Japanese calligrapher · traveling the world · 2026