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8 languages. العربية ... Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 543 total.
Aiko (あいこ, アイコ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Aikō (愛甲) is a Japanese surname, also romanized as Aikoh or Aiko. Aiko or Ayko is also a traditional male given name in Scandinavia and especially northern Germany. In Germany it is considered one of the old "gentry names". [1] It is a variation of the name Ekke or Eike. Ekke ...
[12] [13] [14] Such words which use certain kanji to name a certain Japanese word solely for the purpose of representing the word's meaning regardless of the given kanji's on'yomi or kun'yomi, a.k.a. jukujikun, is not uncommon in Japanese. Other original names in Chinese texts include Yamatai country (邪馬台国), where a Queen Himiko lived.
Naoko Takahashi (尚子, born 1972), Japanese long-distance runner; Naoko Takeuchi (直子, born 1967), Japanese manga artist; Naoko Watanabe (渡辺奈緒子, born 1984), Japanese actress who appeared in Silk; Naoko Watanabe (菜生子, born 1959), Japanese voice actress; Naoko Yamada, (尚子, born 1984), Japanese animator and film director
Top to bottom: 倭; wō in regular, clerical and small seal scripts Wa [a] is the oldest attested name of Japan [b] and ethnonym of the Japanese people.From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive', 'distant', 'dwarf' to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used to transcribe the ...
Japanese names may be written in hiragana or katakana, the Japanese language syllabaries for words of Japanese or foreign origin, respectively. As such, names written in hiragana or katakana are phonetic rendering and lack meanings that are expressed by names written in the logographic kanji.
12 languages. العربية ... Japanese unisex given names (168 P) Pages in category "Japanese given names" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The first, 千 (chi), means "thousand" and the second, 葉 (ba) means "leaves". The name first appears as an ancient kuni no miyatsuko, or regional command office, as the Chiba Kuni no Miyatsuko (千葉国造). The name was adopted by a branch of the Taira clan, which moved to the area in present-day Chiba City in the late Heian period.