Tomio 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 ...
.
Possible writings
Tomio can be written using different combinations of
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. Some examples:
*富雄, "enrich, masculine"
*富男, "enrich, man"
*富夫, "enrich, husband"
*冨雄, "enrich, masculine"
*冨男, "enrich, man"
*冨夫, "enrich, husband"
*斗巳雄, "Big Dipper, sign of the snake (Chinese zodiac), masculine"
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 ...
とみお 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 ...
トミオ.
Notable people with the name
* , Japanese film actor
* , Japanese historian
* , Japanese sprinter
* , Japanese karateka
* , Japanese photographer
* , Japanese diver
* , Japanese mathematician
* , Japanese professor at
Osaka University
, abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. ...
* , Japanese educator
* , American businessman
*, Japanese rower
* , Czech-Japanese politician and entrepreneur
*, Japanese cross-country skier
* , Japanese triple jumper
* , Japanese alpine skier
* , Japanese sprint canoer
* , Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese ice hockey player
Places
*
Tomio Building and
Tomio Department Store, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
See also
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Tomio Station, a railway station in Nara Prefecture, Japan
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Japanese masculine given names