r/kanji

Hi.

I might be in the wrong place asking for this and I might also come off as insensitive or clueless, but you gotta start somewhere so sorry in advance if that's the case.

I'm trying to give meaning to a name by using Kanji phonetically, the name in question being "Sayuri".

Sayuri is already a name that literally translates to "Small lily" or something close to it, but I wanted to try and give it a different meaning more fitting the bearer of the name. Not something that's traditionally done and also kinda backwards, but explaining the entire context would take forever so please just go with it.

The best I could come up with was 挫 愈 利.

挫 (Za, meaning to be crushed/disheartened)

愈 (Yu, meaning to heal/grow past/recover)

利 (Ri, meaning advantage/profit/benefit)

Of which I'm trying to reference the idiom of "Growing stronger with each defeat".

The problem I'm facing is that I have no idea if this is in any way correct. I struggle with understanding languages of any sort be it their structure, rules or cultural uses on top of this being a completely new front for me.

I'm mostly doing this to show appreciation to a friend which is why I dove straight into it and why I don't expect a perfect resul such as using "Za" instead of "Sa", but by only having the internet as reference I don't feel comfortable with sharing it further without having someone check me first.

Any guidance on how to fix this or improve on it would be very appreciated and if I screwed up somewhere like mixing Chinese and Japanese kanji, that's my bad since I unfortunately don't know better.

https://preview.redd.it/0ph6nnrk78jh1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e4065081cada54a74dc4326ea8a79a30cacd7a7

i tried doing it online and i didnt find a proper translation, so i would like to know what it says as the seller doesent know either.

Hi!!! I’m wanting to get a hanko made for personal use (aka cards, etc) when I’m in Japan. Is there someone who could write the Kanji for Rachel?

Thank you!!!