Sō, So or Sou (written: 宗 or 宋) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* (born 1953), Japanese long-distance runner, twin brother of Takeshi
* (born 1953), Japanese long-distance runner, twin brother of Shigeru
* (1715–1786), Japanese painter
* (1207–1274), Japanese Deputy Governor
* (1568–1615), Japanese ''daimyō''
* (1818–1890), Japanese ''daimyō''
* (1908–1985), Japanese aristocrat
Sō (written: 壮 or 創) is also a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
* (born 1943), Japanese novelist
* (born 1997), Japanese footballer
* (born 1996), Japanese footballer
* (born 1934), Japanese playwright and screenwriter
* (1908–1977), Japanese production designer
* (born 1999), Japanese footballer
*
So Nishikawa (born 2001), Japanese-Australian association football player
* (born 1969), Japanese baseball player
* (born 1973), Japanese athlete and television personality
* (1910–2000), Japanese actor
* (born 2000), Japanese actor
Sō is the romanization of the uncommon
Japanese surname
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
written in
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 ...
, which derived from the Chinese surname
Cao
Cao or CAO may refer to:
Mythology
*Cao (bull), a legendary bull in Meitei mythology
Companies or organizations
* Air China Cargo, ICAO airline designator CAO
* CA Oradea, Romanian football club
* CA Osasuna, Spanish football club
* Canadian ...
.
Fictional characters
* So Inuoka (犬岡 走), a character from the manga and anime ''
Haikyu!!'' with the position of (originally middle blocker) wing spiker from Nekoma High
* Sou Hiyori (日和 颯), a character from the game
Your Turn to Die -Death Game by Majority-
See also
*
Sō clan
were a Japanese clan claiming descent from Taira no Tomomori. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Toki," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 56 retrieved 2013-5-10. The clan ...
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Japanese-language surnames
Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names