What is "Yomi name"?

Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
2012-08-20T20:26:02+00:00

I'm trying to add a contact.  If I click on the plus sign below the "First name", "Last name", and "Company" field, I see a pop-up whose first two entries, "Yomi name" and "Yomi company" don't mean anything to me.  Here's a picture:

What the heck does that mean?

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Anonymous
2012-09-06T20:38:39+00:00

Hi Brian,

Yomi name and Yomi company name are fields for entering the phonetic equivalent for Japanese names. In Japan, there is commonly a Furigana equivalent for the Kanji name that is used for sorting and searching.

HTH,

Stacey

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-30T22:33:08+00:00

    We love fight! I was curious what that meant and I know (kinda) the answer now. Thank you boys and girls.

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  2. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2013-09-09T01:50:54+00:00

    Clearly you didn't read what I wrote.  I just wanted to know what the fields meant.  No where did I complain about them.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-08T16:26:59+00:00

    @JRHPM--You and some others  seem to be missing the point of this discussion. The issue is not whether the field should be included, but rather that since it is, there needs to be "hover" help or some other means (for those of us who've never encountered the term) to discover what it means. As I pointed out earlier, Google was less than helpful in eliminating my confusion.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-08T14:29:04+00:00

    I am German. Germany is a federal republic. We use a single postal code system for the whole federal republic, not state specific. There is no need for this state field. I do not even understand, why you need it in other federal states, why you need it in the U. S. A. But what I do understand even less is your reason of complaint. I just do not need to use the field for my German contacts, but I am glad it is there for my contacts in the U. S. A., so I am for the Yomi fields for my Japanese contacts. I just think you should not show the state field in the standard view but just as an extra option for those fiew people living in the U. S. A. ;-) The whole rest of the world does not need it.

    Do you understand the subtle irony?

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