Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
彰
“emblem”·“colorful patterns”
彰 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Akira.
Meaning & origin
What it means
彰 is built from elements meaning “emblem” and “colorful patterns”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
彰’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 彰 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Akira.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 32
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 彰
- Akira YoshinoJapanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
- Akira ItoJapanese association football player and managerborn 1972
- Akira IshidaJapanese voice actorborn 1967
- Akira KuroiwaJapanese speed skaterborn 1961
- Cao ZhangState of Cao Wei prince (died 223)190–223
- Akira MatsuzawaJapanese association football playerborn 1997
- Akira AsadaJapanese postmodern critic/curator/Dean:Graduate School/Kyoto University of Art and Designborn 1957
- Akira JimboJapanese drummer (1959-)
- Akira TonomuraJapanese physicist (1942–2012)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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