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Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,416 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The plant's modern Japanese name is yabukōji, and it is considered to be imbued with energy year-round. [2] Yabura has no inherent meaning, but is inferred to be yabukōji with the pluralizing –ra suffix. Paipo, Shūringan, Gūrindai, Ponpokopī, Ponpokonā These are invented names of a kingdom and royal family in Ancient China. Paipo was a ...
Satomi Koike, (里美) Japanese speed skater; Satomi Koorogi (さとみ, born 1962), a Japanese voice actress; Satomi Mitarai (怜美), a 12-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who was murdered by her classmate; Satomi Oka (さとみ), a Japanese actress; Satomi Ono (聡美) Japanese ice hockey player; Satomi Sato (聡美 born 1986), a Japanese voice ...
Sammy Lee (footballer) (born 1959), former Liverpool footballer and former Bolton Wanderers manager; Satoru Sayama (born 1957), Japanese wrestler with the stage name "Sammy Lee" Sammy Luftspring (1916-2000), Canadian boxer; Sammy Mandell (1904-1967), American world lightweight champion boxer; Sammy McIlroy (born 1954), Northern Ireland footballer
In some names, Japanese characters phonetically "spell" a name and have no intended meaning behind them. Many Japanese personal names use puns. [16] Although usually written in kanji, Japanese names have distinct differences from Chinese names through the selection of characters in a name and the pronunciation of them. A Japanese person can ...
' kanji for use in personal names ') are a set of 863 Chinese characters known as "name kanji" in English. They are a supplementary list of characters that can legally be used in registered personal names in Japan, despite not being in the official list of "commonly used characters" ( jōyō kanji ).
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
Sometimes names of this type preserve older place names. For instance, the character 武 is taken from the word 武蔵 ( Musashi ), which was once the name of the Japanese province in which the city of Tokyo was located, can still be seen in the company names 東武 ( Tobu or "East Musashi"), 西武 ( Seibu or "West Musashi"), and in the ...