Japanese characters translation?

[miz sparrow]

Hi there.

I was thinking of buying these tees for my kids but don't know what the Japanese characters say. I hope they say "oh no" and "super cute" but... there's no telling.
Can anyone translate for me?
Thanks!!

[MarchingDuck]

you gotta be careful with that stuff.

I had this awesome shirt full of characters on it.

Well my friend (who's from China but speaks & can read in several other Asian languages) asked me about it. She said it was just a bunch of random words and didnt make sense.

I'm guessing the company just found some characters that looked cool and slaped them onto a shirt.

I havent really worn it since...and I dont think it'd fit me anymore anyway. I just dont want the joke to be on me!

[Blake]

For the first shirt, the two japanese characters, called katakana, are phonetically o - no. I'm guessing the third is an exclamation mark, but I can't tell.　But in Japanese, it means axe. So you've got two meanings there.

For the second shirt, it is phonetically: ha ro - ki te i whichiis pronounced haro keetehyee. In Japanese, it means　absolutely nothing, so I'm guessing the company tried to make it say happy kitty, and failed.

[Fiddelysquat]

Hahaah, my sister actually bought the "Super Cute" shirt for me. I like it. :3

[miz sparrow]

That's awesome, thank you so much for your help.
Since it is a hello kitty shirt, I think your guess is very near the mark - trying to phonetically get hello (haro) kitty (keetehyee).



Thank you again for your awesome help.

[Christopher]

The first one could be saying o-ha which is a kittens way of saying 'mornin''

[hikaru_dream]

haro keetehyee means Hello Kitty.