The Tyrant Pax wrote:

At 21:04 27/07/96 -0700, you wrote:

Alone the kanji is pronounced "BA" (kanji often vary in pronunciations
when combined).  It means horse.  Ranma's name in Kanji, altogether,
means "wild horse".

Don't forget it's pronouced Lanma...

But it's the ma that means horse, becasue Genma means Dark horse....
I'm not sure this is correct.  In fact, I think its wrong.

You are right about the "ma" part.  I accidently read the name backwords 
while playing the RPG on import.  I forgot that an alternate 
pronunciation of that kanji is "UMA".  The "U" must have been dropped for 
euphony.

However, I do know that it is NOT pronounced "Lanma".  There are NO L's 
in Japanese!  When Japanese folk try to pronounce foriegn word with Ls in 
them, they replace the L's with R's.  This includes English, Chinese and 
other languages ( in contrast, there are a lot of L's in Chinese).  The 
singer of the theme song were trying to sound Chinese for some reason, so 
they pronounced the R's like L's.