Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
一
“beginning, first”
一 (Hajime) is a unisex given name. It is used in Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Hajime.
Meaning & origin
What it means
一 goes back to a word meaning “beginning, first.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
一’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 一 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Hajime. In Japanese usage, 一 can be written in the Roman alphabet as ITSU. In Japanese usage, 一 can be written in the Roman alphabet as PROPER.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 一
- Hajime MoriyasuJapanese association football player and coachborn 1968
- Takuboku IshikawaJapanese poet (1886-1912)
- Kim IlNorth Korean politician (1910-1984)
- Saitō HajimeJapanese swordsman (1844–1915)
- Nam IlNorth Korean army officer (1915–1976)
- Hajime KanzakaJapanese writerborn 1964
- Hajime KamoshidaJapanese writerborn 1978
- Hajime SekiJapanese political scientist (1873-1935)
- Hajime IshiiJapanese politician (1934-2022)
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