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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 jinmeiyō kanji (人名用漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [dʑimmeːjoːkaꜜɲdʑi], lit. ' kanji for use in personal names ') are a set of 863 Chinese characters known as "name kanji" in English.
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 ]
Maki (まき, マキ) is a very common feminine Japanese given name which can also be used as a surname.. Maki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean (the list is not exhaustive):
Aki Aleong (born 1934), American actor, singer and songwriter; Akihiro Ienaga (家長 昭博, born 1986), Japanese football player commonly referred to as "Aki"; Akinori Iwamura (岩村 明憲, born 1979), Japanese baseball player and manager referred to as "Aki" while playing in Major League Baseball
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 ( アオイ ) , Laughing Man's alias, a character in the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Aoi "Hina" Asahina ( 朝日奈 葵 ) , a character in the video game series Danganronpa and its anime adaptations
Satoshi Matsuoka (松岡 聡), Japanese computer scientist; Satoshi Mikami (三上 哲, born 1968), Japanese actor and voice actor; Satoshi Mitazono (三反園 訓, born 1958), Japanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture; Satoshi Miyagi (宮城 聰, born 1959), Japanese theatre director