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Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...
The English translations of the Japanese warships provide names; the literal translation of the characters does not necessarily represent how the name is perceived to the Japanese. For example, Akagi is probably perceived as "red castle" by Japanese about as often as Philadelphia is perceived as the "city of brotherly love" by Americans.
[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.
Kira kira name (キラキラネーム, kira kira nēmu, lit. ' sparkling name ') is a term for a modern Japanese given name that has an atypical pronunciation or meaning. . Common characteristics of these names include unorthodox readings for kanji, pop culture references, or the use of foreign
Nanori (Japanese: 名乗り, "to say or give one's own name") are the often non-standard kanji character readings (pronunciations) found almost exclusively in Japanese names. In the Japanese language, many Japanese names are constructed from common characters with standard pronunciations. However, names may also contain rare characters which ...
Akira Higashi (東 輝, born 1972), Japanese ski jumper; Akira Himekawa, pen name used by a Japanese duo of manga artists; Akira Hiramoto (平本 アキラ, born 1976), Japanese manga artist; Akira Hirose, Japanese engineer; Akira Hokuto (佐々木 久子, born 1967), Japanese wrestler; Akira Hori (堀晃, born 1944), Japanese science fiction ...
Yoko and Yōko (ヨウコ, ようこ) are Japanese feminine given names. Yōko is sometimes transliterated as Yohko and Youko. The name Yoko is almost always written with the kanji 子 (ko), meaning "child". The syllable ko is not generally found at the end of masculine names. In Japanese, Yoko and Yōko have numerous orthographical variations.
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 ...