Naoko Tasaka
is a feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally spelled . Possible writings Naoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *直子, "obedient, child" *尚子, "esteem, child" *奈緒子, " Nara, cord, child" *菜緒子, "greens, cord, child" *奈央子, "Nara, center, child" *菜穂子, "greens, ear (of grain), child" *奈保子, "Nara, keep, child" *奈生子, "Nara, fresh, child" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana. People with the name *, Japanese tennis table player *Nahoko Kinoshita (菜穂子, born 1980), Japanese actress *Nahoko Kojima (奈保子, born 1981), Japanese paper cut artist *Nahoko Uehashi (菜穂子, born 1962), Japanese writer *Naoko Hayashiba (直子, born 1968), Japanese writer and shogi player * Naoko Iijima (直子, born 1968), Japanese actress *Naoko Ishihara (奈央子, born 1974), Japanese sport shooter * Naoko Imoto (直歩子, born 1976), Japanese freestyle swimmer * Naoko Ken (ナオコ, born 1953), ...
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Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ...
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