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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.
' Prajñā ') – A female yōkai found in Japanese folklore (and in kagura and Noh), and is most often described as a monstrous oni of a female; a hannya is a yōkai who was originally once a normal mortal human woman, but one who has become so overcome with her jealousy that it has metaphorically consumed her, followed by literally ...
Sen-hime (千姫), the eldest daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada Hime ( 姫 ) is the Japanese word for princess or a lady of higher birth . Daughters of a monarch are actually referred to by other terms, e.g. Ōjo ( 王女 ) , literally king's daughter, even though Hime can be used to address Ōjo .
Oichi was born in 1547 in Nagoya Castle, Owari Province, [5] the fifth daughter of Oda Nobuhide. [6] She was the younger sister of Nobunaga and Oinu. [7] Her mother was an unnamed concubine who said to have also given birth to several of her siblings. Her other names include Ichihime (市姫), Odani no Kata (小谷の方), and Hideko (秀子).
Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to, and Japanese often avoids pronouns entirely in favor of more explicit titles or kinship terms.
Hinata, a ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Leon; Hinata Homma (本間 日陽, born 1999), Japanese idol singer; Hinata Kashiwagi (柏木 ひなた, born 1999), Japanese idol singer; Hinata Miyazawa (宮澤 ひなた, born 1999), Japanese women's footballer; Hinata Satō (佐藤 日向, born 1998), Japanese actress and voice actress
Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 543 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The name Kuraokami combines kura 闇 "dark; darkness; closed" and okami 龗 "dragon tutelary of water". This uncommon kanji (o)kami or rei 龗, borrowed from the Chinese character ling 龗 "rain-dragon; mysterious" (written with the "rain" radical 雨, 3 口 "mouths", and a phonetic of long 龍 "dragon") is a variant Chinese character for Japanese rei < Chinese ling 靈 "rain-prayer ...