Yumiko is a
feminine
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Japanese given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
.
Possible writings
Yumiko can be written using different
kanji characters and can mean:
*弓子, "bow, child".
*由美子, "reason/cause, beauty, child".
*結実子, "fruition, child".
*夕実子, "evening, fruit, child".
*優美子, "tenderness, beauty, child".
*悠美子, "permanence, beauty, child".
*祐美子, "help, beauty, child".
*由実子, "reason/cause, fruit, child".
*有美子, "exist/possess, beauty, child".
*夕美子, "evening, beauty, child".
*友美子, "friend, beauty, child".
*裕美子, "rich, beauty, child".
*勇美子, "brave, beauty, child".
The name can also be written in
hiragana or
katakana.
People
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Yumiko Abe
, better known by her ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler. Originally trained by the now defunct JDStar promotion, Ohka now works for Oz Academy and Pro Wrestling Wave. She is a former two-time Wave Single Champion, while also being ...
(由美子), a Japanese professional wrestler.
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Yumiko Cheng (鄭烈瓊), a Hong Kong Cantopop singer.
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Yumiko Fujita (弓子), a Japanese actress.
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Yumiko Fukushima
, also known mononymously as , is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played professionally for 28 seasons. He played nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), where he began ...
, announcer.
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Yumiko Hara
Yumiko Hara ( ja, 原裕美子, born 9 January 1982 in Ashikaga, Tochigi) is a Japanese marathon runner. She has represented Japan at two World Championships in Athletics and had won marathons in Nagoya, Osaka and Hokkaido.
She started out as a ...
(裕美子), a Japanese marathon runner.
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Yumiko Hosono (佑美子), a Japanese voice actress, actress, and singer.
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Yumiko Hotta (祐美子), a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist.
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Yumiko Igarashi (ゆみこ), a Japanese
manga artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan.
Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...
.
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Yumiko Kobayashi (由美子, born 1979), a
Japanese voice actress.
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Yumiko Kokonoe
Yumiko Kokonoe (九重佑三子, born 21 March 1946) is a Japanese actress and singer. Her most notable role was the protagonist of the series '' Comet-san'' filmed by Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation
formerly is a Japanese media and license ...
(佑三子), a Japanese actress.
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Yumiko Ōshima
is a Japanese manga artist and is associated with the Year 24 group that heavily influenced the development of shōjo manga in the 1970s.
Career
She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with the short story "Paula no Namida" ...
(弓子), a Japanese manga artist.
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Yumiko Nakagawa, a Japanese girl at the center of an Okinawan controversy.
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Yumiko Shaku (由美子), a Japanese actress and model.
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Yumiko Shibata (由美子), a Japanese voice actress.
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Yumiko Suzuki (disambiguation), multiple people.
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Yumiko Takeshima (竹島 由美子), a Japanese costume designer, ballet dancer, and founder of ''
YUMIKO'' dancewear.
Fictional characters
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Yumiko Kusaka (友美子), a character in the novel, film and manga ''Battle Royale''.
*
Yumiko Shirasagi (白鷺弓子), a character in the novel series ''Digital Devil Story'' and the video game adaptation
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei.
*Yumiko Takagi (高木由美子), a character in the anime and manga series
Hellsing.
*Yumiko Sakaki (榊由美子), a character in the
Grisaia
is a Japanese adult visual novel, the first in a series of visual novels by Frontwing, with character designs by Akio Watanabe and Fumio. It was released in February 2011 for Windows, and it was later ported to the PlayStation Port ...
series of visual novels.
*
Yumiko (弓子), a female Japanese-American character in the comic book series
''The Walking Dead'' as well as the TV series adaptation.
*Yumiko "Hibana" Imagawa (今川 由美子), a character in the video game series
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, nicknamed
Hibana (Rainbow_Six_Siege)
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.
*Yumiko, a character in the fighting game,
Brawlhalla.
*Mirkou Yumiko, a character from ''
Kusunoki Mebuki is a Hero''.
References
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Japanese feminine given names