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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 ...
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
[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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Tanaka (たなか) is the fourth most common Japanese surname. It is typically written with the kanji for ricefield & middle (田中). [2] Less common variants include many & middle (多中), many & relationship (多仲), another & middle (他中), shelf & low (棚下), shelf & summer (棚夏) and many & name & congratulation (多名賀).
with the given name Aoi. Aoi (born 1984), Japanese singer; Aoi (葵), vocalist of Japanese rock band Ayabie; Aoi (葵, born 1979), guitarist of Japanese rock band The Gazette; Aoi Enomoto (榎本 葵, born 1992), Japanese baseball player; Aoi Hiiragi (柊 あおい, born 1962), Japanese manga artist; Aoi Koga (古賀 葵, born 1993), Japanese ...