Yuki

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Yuki
Given Name
Pronunciation Yuki
Gender Female
Meaning brave, snow, princess
Region of Origin Japanese
Origin Japanese
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Yuki or Yūki (Japanese:雪) is a Japanese given name. The word "Yuki" has a couple of meanings in Japanese. One meaning is "brave", while another is "snow", and yet another is "princess."

It may refer to:

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[edit] Places

Yuki or Yūki may refer to multiple places in Japan:

[edit] People (non-fiction)

Japanese pronunciation is non-ambiguously described below in italicized Hepburn romanizations yuki and yūki. When a Japanese term is pronounced yuki, it is spelled "yuki". However, when a term is pronounced yūki, it can have a variety of spellings as seen below, one of them being "yuki." A Japanese given name pronounced as yuki is usually female, while yūki can be a given name for either gender.

[edit] Stage name for entertainers

[edit] Pronounced yuki

[edit] Pronounced yūki

  • YU-KI, vocalist of TRF (formerly: YUKI)
  • YUKI, member of EE JUMP
  • YUUKI, keyboard player of An Cafe
  • YUKI, vocalist of Unsraw
  • Asuka Yūki, prolific Japanese AV idol, born 'Arisa Shimizu'

[edit] Given name

[edit] Pronounced yuki

[edit] Pronounced yūki

[edit] Surname

[edit] Fictional characters

[edit] Given names of fictional characters, usually female

[edit] Surnames of fictional characters

[edit] Other

  • Yuki tribe, a Native American tribe
  • "Yuki" was the name of one of Lyndon B. Johnson's dogs, a white mongrel his daughter found at a gas station

[edit] See also

Terms with the word yuki (雪), the Japanese word for snow: