Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
弘
“bow”·“mouth”
弘 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Hiroshi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
弘 is built from elements meaning “bow” and “mouth”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
弘’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 弘 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Hiroshi. In Japanese usage, 弘 can be written in the Roman alphabet as HIROMU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 24
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 弘
- Hiroshi YoshidaJapanese association football playerborn 1958
- Hiroshi OchiaiJapanese association football playerborn 1946
- Hiroshi HirakawaJapanese association football playerborn 1965
- Emperor Houshao of Hanemperor of the Han dynasty195 BC–179 BC
- Hiroshi SuzukiJapanese swimmerborn 1933
- Hiroshi MoriJapanese astronomerborn 1958
- Hiroshi YoneyamaJapanese swimmer (1909–1988)
- Hiroshi Fujiokaactorborn 1946
- Fujiko F. FujioJapanese mangaka, FUJIMOTO Hiroshi (1933–1996), pen name since 1989
Characters named 弘: Mu Hong (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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