Kanji for Oh?

The Kanji is 王 as in "king," which my daughter learned in first grade, making it one of the 80 most basic characters (besides Hiragana and Katakana, which she also did her first year) used in Japanese.

If you're interested in learning names in Kanji, I have them in this file listed in alphabetical order by last name in Romaji, then in Kanji, and finally in Hiragana. The list of names is from the 2000 season, but Oh is there.

I'm preparing to make my entire bilingual database available to all (with some database skill), but would like to provide a little documentation first. It's high on my list of things to do, but not yet at the top. If you're already familiar with using HSQLDB, I'll post the URL to the database. Otherwise, you'll need more explanation than I have time to give you right now to get started. ("You" refers to anyone interested, not just Tony.)

Yeah, I just learned hiragana and you can't write Oh in hiragana, so I thought you couldn't write Oh in Japanese, so...

You need to have a look at this thread (starting from the message just preceding the "Romanization Systems" sub-topic).

In a nutshell, there are several ways of transliterating the Hiragana to Romaji (the Western alphabet), and Pro Yakyu doesn't use any of them with consistancy. Furthermore, both "oo" and "ou" combinations may be transliterated to "oh" - so it's not a one to one correspondence when converting back to Hiragana.

If you're interested in names, please have a look at the above mentioned 2000 name list to see that Oh-kantoku can be and is written in Hiragana. Follow up by asking your teacher why names on Pro Yakyu uniforms aren't consistantly transliterated to Romaji.