"Yes." He nodded, still stroking his hair gently even as he smiled softly up at Tidus when he looked at him. His free hand comes to the hand on his knee and he gently sketches out the hanzi of his name.

"Tai is for my kingdom. Though it is a slightly different character. Um... One is for the country name and one is the formal name? I guess..."

He was a kirin able to understand and be understood but it did not stretch to the written world and he was still learning the language that he should have grown up with if his egg fruit hadn't blown away. "Ki means I am a male kirin so Taiki means I am the male kirin of Tai. If I was a girl I would be Tairin and all kirin have been called this way, since time began."