Yumi (name)

Yumi
GenderFemale
Origin
MeaningDifferent meanings depending on the kanji or hanja used
Region of originJapan and Korea

Yumi is a Japanese or Korean name.

Japanese name

Yumi (ゆみ, ユミ,) is a common feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally used as a surname.

Orthography

Yumi can be written using different kanji characters and as a given name can mean:

  • 由美, "reason/cause, beauty"
  • 裕美, "abundant, beauty"
  • 夕実, "evening, fruit"
  • 優美, "tenderness, beauty"'
  • 裕未, "abundant, not yet"
  • 悠美, "permanence, beauty"
  • 祐美, "help/blessing, beauty"
  • 由実, "reason/cause, fruit"
  • 有美, "possessing beauty"
  • 夕美, "evening, beauty"
  • 友美, "friend, beauty"

The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Given name

Surname

Fictional characters

  • Yumi, Otakuthon mascot
  • Yumi (Ape Escape), a character in the video game Ape Escape
  • Yumi Yoshimura, a character in the Japanese-American animated television series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
  • Yumi Fukuzawa (福沢 祐巳), the main character from the novel, manga, and anime series Maria-sama ga Miteru
  • Yumi Ishiyama, a main character in the French animated television series Code Lyoko and Code Lyoko: Evolution
  • Yumi Tsoi, an inconsistently-minded, non-carbon alien character. Lives entirely in Artem Syrmolotov's imagination
  • Farmer Yumi, on the animated television show PAW Patrol
  • Azusa Yumi (弓 梓), a character from the anime and manga series Soul Eater
  • Yumi Omura (大村裕美) and yumi the persocom, two characters in the manga and anime series Chobits
  • Yumi Ozawa, a character from Persona 4
  • Yumi Sakata, a character in shōjo manga series Doubt!!
  • Yumi Sawamura (澤村 由美), a character in the action-adventure video game Yakuza
  • Sayaka Yumi (弓さやか), a character from the Mazinger manga and anime series
  • Yumi Miyamoto, a character from the Detective Conan manga and anime series
  • Corporal Yumi Nagumo (南雲弓), the main character of Marine Corps Yumi manga series. Uses the kanji 弓 "bow".
  • Yumi Komagata, a character from anime and manga series Rurouni Kenshin
  • Yumi from the Senran Kagura fighting video game franchise
  • Aiko Yumi, a Japanese college professor and a dateable character in the dating simulation videogame HuniePop
  • Yumi, a recruitable crew member in Need for Speed: Carbon.

Korean name

Yumi
Pronunciation/yumi/
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameKorean
MeaningDifferent meanings depending on the hanja used
Region of originKorea

Yumi (유미), also spelled Yoomi, is a common feminine Korean given name.

Orthography

The meaning of the name differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable. There are 62 hanja with the reading "yu" and 33 hanja with the reading "mi" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1] Some examples include:

People

References

  1. "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2014-04-15.

See also

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