Tomonaga is both 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 ...
and a
Japanese surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are Japanese orthography, pronounced and romanization of Japanese, romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames w ...
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Possible writings
Tomonaga 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. Here are some examples:
*友永, "friend, eternity"
*友長, "friend, long/leader"
*知永, "know, eternity"
*知長, "know, long/leader"
*智永, "intellect, eternity"
*智長, "intellect, long/leader"
*共永, "together, eternity"
*共長, "together, long/leader"
*朋永, "companion, eternity"
*朋長, "companion, extend"
*朝永, "morning/dynasty, eternity"
*朝長, "morning/dynasty, long/leader"
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 ...
ともなが 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 ...
トモナガ.
Notable people with the given name Tomonaga
*, Japanese samurai
Notable people with the surname Tomonaga
*, Gorōbyōe Tomonaga, Japanese priest in the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church
*, Japanese modern pentathlete
*, Japanese physicist
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Japanese-language surnames
Japanese masculine given names