Yōichirō, Yoichiro, Youichirou or Yohichiroh 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

Yōichirō 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: The characters used for "ichiro" (一郎) literally means "first son" and usually used as a suffix to a masculine name, especially for the oldest son. The "yo" part of the name can use a variety of characters, each of which will change the meaning of the name ("洋" for ocean, "陽" for sunshine, "曜" and so on). *洋一郎, "ocean, first son" *陽一郎, "sunshine, first son" *庸一郎, "common, first son" *楊一郎, "willow, first son" *耀一郎, "shine, first son" Other combinations... *陽市朗, "sunshine, city, clear" *耀市郎, "shine, city, son" *洋一朗, "ocean, one, clear" *蓉一朗, "lotus, one, clear" 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 ...

よういちろう 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 ...

ヨウイチロウ.

Notable people with the name

* (born 1958), Japanese politician * (1859–1925), Japanese malacologist * (born 1990), Japanese footballer * (born 1952), Japanese artist * (born 1979), Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor * (born 1936), Japanese philosopher * (1921–2015), Japanese-born American physicist * (born 1963), Japanese film and television director *, Japanese particle physicist *, Japanese composer, music arranger and film producer {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoichiro Japanese masculine given names