Editing Japanese name (section)

===Nicknames===
{{Main|Japanese abbreviated and contracted words}}
Any given name corresponds with one or more [[hypocoristic]]s, or affectionate nicknames. These may be formed by adding the suffix {{nihongo||ちゃん|[[-chan]]}} to a name stem. There are two types of stem: the full given name or a modified stem derived from the full given name. Examples of the first type are Tarō-chan from Tarō, Kimiko-chan from Kimiko, and Yasunari-chan from Yasunari. Examples of the second type are Ta-chan from Tarō, Kii-chan from Kimiko, and Yā-chan from Yasunari. Hypocoristics with modified stems are considered more intimate than those based on the full given name.

Hypocoristics with modified stems are derived by adding {{transliteration|ja|-chan}} to a stem consisting of an integral number, usually one but occasionally two, of [[Foot (prosody)|feet]], where a foot consists of two [[Mora (linguistics)|mora]]s. A {{nihongo|mora|音節}} is the unit of which a light syllable contains one and a heavy syllable two. For example, the stems that may be derived from Tarō are /taro/, consisting of two light syllables, and /taa/, consisting of a single syllable with a long vowel, resulting in Taro-chan and Tā-chan. The stems that may be derived from Hanako are /hana/, with two light syllables, /han/, with one syllable closed by a consonant, and /haa/, with one syllable with a long vowel, resulting in Hana-chan, Han-chan, and Hā-chan. The segmental content is usually a left substring of that of the given name. However, in some cases it is obtained by other means, including the use of another reading of the kanji used to write the name. For example, a girl named Megumi may be called Kei-chan or just Kei, because the character used to write {{nihongo|Megumi|恵}}, can also be read {{transliteration|ja|Kei}}.

The common Japanese practice of forming abbreviations by concatenating the first two [[Mora (linguistics)|morae]] of two words is sometimes applied to names (usually those of celebrities). For example, {{nihongo|[[Takuya Kimura]]|木村 拓哉|Kimura Takuya}}, a famous Japanese actor and singer, becomes {{nihongo||キムタク|Kimutaku}}. This is sometimes applied even to non-Japanese celebrities: [[Brad Pitt]], whose full name remains the same in Japanese as {{nihongo||ブラッド・ピット|Brad Pitt}} is commonly known as {{nihongo||ブラピ|BraPi}}, and [[Jimi Hendrix]] is abbreviated as {{nihongo||ジミヘン|Jimihen}}. Some [[tarento|Japanese celebrities]] have also taken names combining kanji and katakana, such as {{nihongo|[[Terry Ito]]|テリー伊藤}}. Another slightly less common method is doubling one or two syllables of the person's name, such as the use of "MamiMami" for [[Mamiko Noto]].