Hisashi is a masculine
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 ...
. Its meaning differs depending on the
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 ...
used to write it.
Kanji
Single kanji used to write the name Hisashi include:
*: "long time"
*: "eternal"
*: "still"
*: "standard"
*: "complete"
*: "long"
*: "life" (also with the ''
kyūjitai
''Kyūjitai'' ( ja, 舊字體 / 旧字体, lit=old character forms) are the traditional forms of kanji, Chinese written characters used in Japanese. Their simplified counterparts are ''shinjitai'' ( ja, 新字体, lit=new character forms, lab ...
'' variant )
*: "long day"
There are more than a hundred different ways to write the name using two or three characters.
People with the name
*, Japanese zoologist
*, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese manga artist
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese guitarist and songwriter
*, Japanese writer and playwright
*, Japanese historian
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese football manager
*, Japanese electrical engineer and computer scientist
*, Japanese geologist
*, Japanese football player
*, Japanese painter
*, Japanese alpine skier
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese video game developer
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese baseball player
*, known mononymously as
Hisashi (musician)
, better known by his stage name HISASHI, is a Japanese musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Glay. He is particularly associated with the brand Tokai, designing a series of personal signature guitars, based on their Talbo mod ...
*, Japanese football player
*, Japanese baseball pitcher
*, Japanese sumo wrestler
*, Japanese organic chemist
*, Japanese sumo wrestler
Fictional characters
* Hisashi Kinoshita (木下 久志), a character from ''
Haikyu!!
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 ''tankōbo ...
'' with the position of wing spiker from Karasuno High
*Hisashi Mitsui (三井 寿), a character from
''Slam Dunk''
See also
* , Japanese composer
References
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Japanese masculine given names