![]() More specifically, it refers to the Japanese transliteration of the term ' ksana ' - the smallest measurement of time in Buddhism. ![]() Her given name has no inherent meaning, but is a homonym for a Japanese word meaning 'moment'. Sailor Pluto: Meioh as in MeiĆsei, the Japanese for Pluto which means "King of the Underworld Star".Tenoh = Sky King, Kaioh = Sea King, Meioh = Dark King. Haruka Tenoh represents Uranus, or Tenohsei. The outer Senshi (sans saturn) take their family names directly from their planet.She has a different planet pun: the kanji in her given name have the alternate reading "binasu", and up to 1991 that was the official pronunciation of "venus" in Japanese.So she's literally called the "beautiful child of love". Her last name, which has the symbol for "love," represents the planet of Venus as Venus is the god of love in Roman mythology.Her first name contains the kanji for "beautiful" and "child," and her beauty is referenced in-series.Having been created first, Aino Minako is the only inner Sailor Guardian without the element pun.It also sounds like a variation of "Leda", which is one of the moons of Jupiter, and the mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus. She got her Canadian dub name "Lita" because it is similar to "lightning", her other elemental power. Her given name is written in hiragana, but sounds like the word for "sincerity" her full name sounds the same as the Japanese phrase "sincerity of wood". Sailor Jupiter: The "Ki" in "Kino" means "wood" or "tree".Her full name sounds the same as the Japanese phrase hi no rei, meaning "spirit of fire". ![]()
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