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Got Heroes > Heroes: Episode Discussion > Season One > Chapter 12 - "Godsend"
Hero
I looked around to see what the kanji for "Great Talent" and "Godsend" were, and I was able to find the following:

"Great Talent" (or talent):
http://www.manythings.org/kanji/d/624d.htm
http://kanji.sapp.org/cgi-bin/kinfo?oneill=0574

"Godsend":
http://www.manythings.org/kanji/d/4e0e.htm
http://kanji.sapp.org/cgi-bin/kinfo?oneill=983

The links at manythings helped with the definitions of the kanji, but I liked the "ON reading" given at the kanji.sapp.org site, which shows "Great Talent" is "SAI", and "Godsend" is "YO" (the thumbnail's clickable):


So would the kanji separately be pronounced something like "Sigh Yo", or can it be written as Saiyo or Sai Yo? Then the HEROES symbol could have the name "Saiyo" or "Sai Yo". Or if it makes more sense to say that "God has sent Great Talent", would "Yosai" or "Yo Sai" be a better name? If you are familiar with kanji and how it is written or pronounced or read, could you tell me if any of this makes sense, or if not, show me how to make it understandable? Thanks!

Also, how creative are you? Can you show how to "combine" SAI and YO to create the symbol from HEROES?
Jester77
Wow thanks for the pics, after Ando said that last night I really wanted to see what the symbols looked like. It's actually kind of hard to tell that the two combined symbols form the infamous "S" but I guess it does
Hero in Waiting
Sorry...having trouble seeing it.....hmmm cool.gif
Red
Looks more like "YO" and has nothing to do with "Sai".
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