Akemi is a unisex
Japanese given name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...
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Possible writings
Akemi can be written using different
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 ...
characters and can mean:
*, "bright, beauty"
*, "bright, fruit"
*, "bright, sea"
*, "bright, sign of the snake (Chinese zodiac)"
*, "vermilion, beauty"
*, "vermilion, not yet"
*, "vermilion, fruit"
*, "dawn, beauty"
*, "daybreak, view"
The name can also be written in
hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...
あけみ or
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...
アケミ.
Notable people with the name
*, Japanese fashion model and television personality
*, Japanese voice actress
*, Japanese field hockey player
*, Japanese marathon runner
*, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese marathon runner
*, Japanese fencer
*, Japanese cyclist
*, Japanese actress
*, Japanese curler
*, Japanese football player
*, Japanese voice actress and narrator
*, Japanese singer
*, Japanese voice actress
*, Japanese volleyball player
*, male Japanese poet and classical scholar
*, Japanese artist and illustrator
*, Japanese Nordic combined skier
Fictional characters
*, a character in the manga series ''
Vagabond
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*, a character in the video game ''
Red Ninja: End of Honor''
*, a character in the manga series ''Saikano''
*, a character in the cell phone novel ''
Ōsama Game
is a cell phone novel written by Nobuaki Kanazawa (pen name: Pakkuncho), consisting of five volumes. A film based on the novel was released in 2011, and directed by Norio Tsuruta. The theme song of the film is " Amazuppai Haru ni Sakura Saku" ...
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*, a character in the manga series ''Case Closed''
*, protagonist of the novel series ''Digital Devil Story'' and its video game adaption, ''
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei''
*Akemi Nakamura, a character in Sister Souljah's books, ''
Midnight: A Gangster Love Story'' and ''
Midnight and the Meaning of Love
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*, a character in the manga series ''Maison Ikkoku''
*, a character in the manga series ''
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha
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*, a character in the 1966 film ''
The War of the Gargantuas
is a 1966 ''kaiju'' film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Referred by film historian Stuart Galbraith IV as a "quasi–sequel" to ''Frankenstein vs. Baragon'', the film was a Japanese-American co-production; it ...
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*, a character in the manga series ''
Salaryman Kintarō
is a Japanese manga series by Hiroshi Motomiya. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from 1994 to 2002, with many periods of inactivity during its run. Salary Man Kintaro had sold over 30 millio ...
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*, a character in the manga series ''
Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Fumita Yanagida. It was serialized on the Twi4 Twitter account and ''Saizensen'' website from April 2015 to July 2019, and published in eight volumes. An anime television serie ...
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* Akemi, a character in David Mack's comic book series ''
Kabuki
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Kabuki is thought to ...
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*, a character in the anime series ''
Great Pretender''
*, a character in the anime series ''
Puella Magi Madoka Magica''
References
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Japanese feminine given names
Japanese unisex given names