Have you ever wonder what you favorite anime characters name mean in english because all anime character name some how are japanese if didnt know this anime means animation in english

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1 please dont repeatly post
2 post up to 5 names
3 if it doesnt mean anything english please dont keep asking what it means ok because i will tell you if doesnt mean anything

I Know One

InuYasha

Inu-Dog
Yasha-Female Demon

lol..................

Yup that is one good work

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Fuuko Kirisawa : Wind Child, Foggy Swamp

wow i didnt know that here are some more

yuki/ snow
yuki/ going
kouya/ a plain
kouya/ dyer
kouya/ wilderness

those are names with many different meanings

Ichigo - Strawberry niach sweet ;3

i didnt know that one

Usagi - Rabbit
Hitomi - eyes
Midori - green

Mochi (my name)- rice cake XD
Kyou- insert inbetween (? Doesn't make sense to me T_T;
Kisa- seashore
Isuzu- stone
Shina (pronounced 'she-nah')- virtuous

Kenji - from Ruroni Kenshin means Sacred Sword.

Ikari - Referring to Shinji and his father Gendo in Neon Genesis Evangelion means Anchor or ironically Rage or Anger.

Well...I have favorite anime characters: but I don`t know what their names mean.. I was hoping someone here can tell me ^___^

Utena Tenjou - (I suspect "tenjou" means "girl" but I`m not sure...and I have no idea what Utena means O_o )
Himemiya Anthy - ? (Anthy reminds me of something indian...)
Sayonji - ?
Abel Nightroad - this I know: Abel, son of Adam and Eve, who was slain by his brother, Cain ; and Nightroad...well..that`s obvious, right?)
Alucard - Dracula spelt backwards, duhh..

Well, some of my fave characters have no meaning, like Guu. Well, not a Japanese meaning, anyway.

黒崎 一護, Kurosaki Ichigo - Kuro is black, Saki is peninsula (not sure why), Ichi is one, and Go is to defend. So Ichigo is the One Defender of the Dark Lands, I think. Or something like that. Makes sense. It's a deliberate pun to Strawberry, though, because of his right hair.

Naruto's more complicated. From Wikipedia:

由貴瑛里 Yuki Eiri - Yuki seems to have a meaning that indicates nobility. I couldn't find the kanji for Uesugi, so I can't be sure on that name. But Yuki, with different kanji, is also the word for snow. A deliberate pun, I'm sure, because he's supposed to be frigid. Eiri is interesting, though. The kanji for Ei doesn't seem to be in use any longer, as it's difficult to find a definition. Ri ends up indicating distance. But in Chinese the characters translate to "Of Beautiful Jade," which his eyes are hazel.

新堂愁一 Shindou Shuichi - Shindou is interesting, because it means "new temple/shrine." And in the place of a man who is worshipped in the J-pop world, Shindou tops the charts. And Ryuichi even pushes him to do it. Shuichi... This one's kinda depressing because the character espresses negativity, like worry or sadness.

Sakuma Ryuichi - This is weird. His name is written in all Hiragana. Sakuma, if it's all one word, is to "make bare." To strip of all covering. Ryuichi... well, it could be anything. But both in how he is and the way his name is expressed, it's almost as if he doesn't really exist. Like he only has one purpose for existing, and we're seeing it in his provocation through the manga.

For Elin:
天上 Tenjou means The Heavens. Utena was written in katakana, so it may not have any meaning at all, or has meaning in a different language.
姫宮 Himemiya means Princess. Anthy, I don't know. Again, it was written in katakana, and then it's more pronounced Anshi.
西園寺莢一 Sayonji, his surname... Sa(shi) is west, Yon is garden, and Ji(though the kanji is for teru, I think) is temple. His given name, Kyoichi, is interesting. Kyo means pod, or shell. Like that of a pea or a seed. Ichi, again, is 1.

I have many other favorites, but that'd be a long list.

O_O you're my hero.

in tokyo mew mew, there's a character named Ichiko, and as you said, it directly means 'Strawberry' in the series.

Now, my characters name is Michiko. Can someone tell me what that means?
I know 'michi' is a word,so if you dont know what michiko means, can you tell me what michi means?

yukiba- as said below, yuki=snow, im trying to remember exactly how it was created but somehow yukiba=snow rose =]

ps- Michiko is a real Japanese name, I didn't make it up

Oh and lilly pad, I completly love your siggy, tsubassa rocks!

Sumimasen. That's incorrect. I'm finishing my third year of Japanese and I know more than people who just watch anime and read manga and dont actually study the language. Anime and manga tend to write slang, and other things that won't be translated, so I wouldn't go by what you read in manga or see in anime. The stuff that they say shouldn't be repeated unless you've studied Japanese and understand the full context of the word. Strawberry is Ichigo not Ichiko. Ichiko, isn't a word, or at least isn't in the Seigo Nakao, Random House Dictionary that's been approved by my sensei. I don't mean to be rude, but I can't stand inaccuracy.

Michiko? Yup, that's definetly a real name, quite famous actually. The 'ko' in Michiko means child and is usually at the end of Japanese girl's names, it's supposed to sound feminine. Ex: Sadako, Mariko, etc. Michi? I need to see the kanji for it.

Words, names, phrases, etc. Are made up of kanji and a single kanji holds the meaning of words and the Japanese obviously put a lot of thought into the kanji that they "borrowed" from China. Ex: The word for Japan in Japanese is "Nihon", but it used to be called "Nippon" but after WWII they permanetly changed it to Nihon. "Ni" (based on the kanji) means "sun", an "Hon" (based on the kanji) means "origin", so Japan is "the sun's origin". But the same kanji for "Hon", by itself can mean "book". Don't go by pronounciation, the kanji is more important when translating a word.

*now looking at Japanese dictionary*
Michi means road, way, means, doctrine, career, or unknown. But that doesn't make sense. If you could show me the kanji, I could translate it.

As was said in 地獄少女, "Parents name their kids strange things these days." Ichiko can possibly still mean Strawberry, if that is the character that her parents chose for it. You were right when you said ko is added to make the name cuter. Parents will also change the way the name sounds just to make the name cuter.

Kaida is 少竜, though to read the characters, it's Shouryu, or Shoutatsu, I believe. However, as a name, it is Kaida. You cannot rely on how the characters are supposed to sound to know what the name is. Sadly enough.

On a side note, Vampire Princess Miyu's japanese title is Kyuketsuhime Miyu, from what I remember. Kyuketsuhime isn't a word in the Japanese language. It's kyuketsuki. But the author took creative liberty to drop the ki and add hime instead.

Really, I think I just threw that last in there because I'm practically otaku over Miyu. (Note, practically. I'm not that bad.)

As for Michi, we really do need the kanji (which interestingly enough, translates to 'Chinese character'). Michi can be:

盈ち - fullness, pride, satisfication, to be enough

充ち - to fill

道 - A street or district, but can also refer to a spiritual road; the way or morality.

美知 - Beauty and wisdom

未知 - As of yet unknown

路 - road, street, or path. Literally.

EDIT: Snow rose would be: 雪薔薇. However, it can merely be 雪薔, which would be Yukiba.

EDIT 2: Just because... ゼッランナ - Zellanna! lol

What about Doraemon? does it mean robot cat??

Because this is a combination of two Japanese scripts, I used Wiki to translate this:

I hope it helped!

yeah, i understand the dorayaki part thanks even though it's kind of confusing

gomen, sometimes when Japanese names translate they don't always make as much sense as you would hope they would. :/

Many times the reason for this is because they do many plays on words. Tenchi Muyo, for instance, I believe also translated to "This Side Up" or something like that, Tenchi not only being the main character's name, the name of the sword, and translating to Universe, but also translates to 'top and bottom.'

Depending on the anime or manga, many times character names are chosen for sound or meaning, and it may be something that takes some time to explain. Some date back to old legends, some to metaphors, some to synonyms, and still others are purposefully nonsense.

Yay for a fellow Utena fan!

天上ウテナ (Tenjou Utena) means "Heaven Above Calyx", the calyx being the outermost part of a flower (on a rose, it's the green fringe under the bloom). Pretty representative of her character don't you think?

莢一西園寺(Kyouichi Saionji)　"one pod west of the temple garden" (I assume we are talking about the green haired always ****** off about something guy, right?) I'd be ****** off too if my name meant "pod one." Thankfully the kanji for my name (Katherine→華沙鈴) has a decent meaning.

姫宮アンシ(Himemiya Anthy) means "shrine of the Princess flower"

I love Utena too.

My fave one: Ai Haibara


Ai means.. love?? ( I don't know the kanji letter of Ai Haibara's name)
Haibara means.. Gray land???

Utau Hoshina: Utau means song, and Hoshi means star, but HoshiNA I don't know what that means...
Hikaru Hitachiin: I know Hikaru means Radiance, but Hitachiin, I don't know what that means

灰原 哀

Ai: grief, sorrow, pity
Haibara: field of ash(es)

ほしな歌唄

Na is a particle that can be added onto some Japanese anime names. I don't know how often it's used in real life. For instance, Ami Mizuno, No is a possessive particle, so Mizuno is best translated to "of water". It's usually used as a negative, analogous to nai. As that's usually used on verbs, it might also simply be added to make it sound better.

Hoshi could mean star in this case, or it could mean 'dried'. It's not written in kanji, so it could be either, or it might not truly have meaning.

And Utau, as you already know, is song.

常陸院 光

Hikaru is actually Light. Hitachiin is a strange one. But it looks like it might be a play on Hitachi, since their father manages a computer software company, though Hitachi is more computer hardware. But of course, using different characters. In is an honorific or a suffix, depending on context, having a meaning that could be royalty, an institution, or a suffix added posthumously to an emperor, lord, or leader. Which would be amusing, with their father being named a "ghost" of the series. Again, very unusual, and likely a play on words or inside joke for Japanese viewers.

Aikawa Kazuhiko... The Kanji of "Ai" in Aikawa means sorrow. Therefore, river of sorrow? Kazuhiko means harmonious prince.