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Word/name: Japanese: Meaning: Different meanings depending on the kanji used: Other names; Alternative spelling: Yô (Kunrei-shiki) ... Japanese actor; Yo Taichi ...
Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,426 total.
Hakama – A type of traditional Japanese clothing; originally inspired from kù (simplified Chinese: 裤; traditional Chinese: 褲), trousers used by the Chinese imperial court in the Sui and Tang dynasties. This style was adopted by the Japanese in the form of the hakama, beginning in the sixth century.
In some names, Japanese characters phonetically "spell" a name and have no intended meaning behind them. Many Japanese personal names use puns. [16] Although usually written in kanji, Japanese names have distinct differences from Chinese names through the selection of characters in a name and the pronunciation of them. A Japanese person can ...
yo: hiragana origin: 与: katakana origin: 與: Man'yōgana: 用 容 欲 夜 与 余 四 世 代 吉: spelling kana: 吉野のヨ Yoshino no "yo" unicode: U+3088, U+30E8: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation
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.
Abbreviated and contracted words are a common feature of Japanese.Long words are often contracted into shorter forms, which then become the predominant forms. For example, the University of Tokyo, in Japanese Tōkyō Daigaku (東京大学) becomes Tōdai (東大), and "remote control", rimōto kontorōru (リモートコントロール), becomes rimokon (リモコン).
In addition to native words and placenames, kanji are used to write Japanese family names and most Japanese given names. Centuries ago, hiragana and katakana, the two kana syllabaries, derived their shapes from particular kanji pronounced in the same way. However, unlike kanji, kana have no meaning, and are used only to represent sounds.