Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
剛
“steel”
剛 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tsuyoshi.
Meaning & origin
剛’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 剛 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Takeshi. In Japanese usage, 剛 has a transliteration in Takeshi. In Japanese usage, 剛 can be written in the Roman alphabet as TSUYOSHI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
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 剛
- Liu GangChinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
- Tsuyoshi WatanabeJapanese association football playerborn 1997
- Qin Gangformer Foreign Affairs Minister of Chinaborn 1966
- Tsuyoshi YoshitakeJapanese association football playerborn 1981
- Ho-KanFounding father of Chinese contemporary art (born 1932)
- Tsuyoshi KusanagiJapanese singer, actorborn 1974
- Go AyanoJapanese actorborn 1982
- Tsuyoshi NishiokaJapanese baseball player (1984-)
- Tsuyoshi DomotoJapanese idol, singer, actor, talentborn 1979
Characters named 剛: Wu Gang (Chinese mythical figure).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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