Hisashi is a masculine
Japanese given name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming children, and foreigners when adoptin ...
. Its meaning differs depending on the
kanji
are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, 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 and are ...
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'' () are the traditional forms of kanji (Chinese written characters used in Japanese writing). Their simplified counterparts are '' shinjitai'' (). Some of the simplified characters arose centuries ago and were in everyday use in bot ...
'' variant )
*: "long day"
There are more than a hundred different ways to write the name using two or three characters.
People with the name
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*, Japanese writer and playwright
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*, 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 screenwriter and mystery novelist
*, 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 Igo (井豪 永), a character from ''
High School of the Dead
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* 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 manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from February 2012 to July 2020, with its chapters collected in 45 volumes. The story f ...
'' 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
Masculine given names