Miwa (みわ, ミワ) is a feminine

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which can also be used as a

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Written forms

Miwa can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *三和 "three, harmony" *三輪 "three, wheel/ring" *美和 "beauty, harmony" *美羽 "beauty, feather" *美輪 "beauty, wheel/ring" *美環 "beauty, ring; circle; loop" The given name can also be written in

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katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

People

;with the given name Miwa * Miwa (singer) (born 1990), a musician who sung the theme song for the drama ''Nakanai to Kimeta Hi'' * Miwa Asao (美和, born 1986), a beach volleyball player * Miwa Fukuhara (美和, born 1944), a figure skater *, Japanese women's basketball player * Miwa Matsumoto (美和, born 1971), a voice actress * Miwa Nishikawa (美和, born 1974), a director * Miwa Oshiro (大城美和, born 1983), gravure idol, model and actress *, Japanese cross-country skier * Miwa Ueda (美和, 21st century), a manga artist * Miwa Yasuda (美和, born 1977), a voice actress * Miwa Yoshida (美和, born 1965), lead singer of the band Dreams Come True * Miwa Takada (美和, born 1947), an actress ;with the surname Miwa *

Akihiro Miwa (born 15 May 1935), better known by his stage name , is a Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, author and drag queen. Career Miwa began his career aged 17 as a professional cabaret singer in the Ginza district in Chūō, Tokyo, after ha ...

(美輪, born 1935), a singer, actor, and theatre director *, Japanese actress * Sadahiro Miwa (三輪定広, born 1941), Olympic weightlifter * Shigeyoshi Miwa (三輪, born 1892), an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy * Shirow Miwa (三輪, born 1978), a manga artist *, Japanese racewalker * Takashi Miwa (三輪, born 1969), a former professional baseball player * Tetsuji Miwa (三輪哲二,, born 1949), Japanese mathematician * Tetsuya Miwa (三輪), the guitarist of the rock band ''

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Fictional characters

;with the given name Miwa *Miwa Hamato, a recurring character in the 2012 of ''

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''. She is the biological daughter of Hamato Yoshi and the late Tang Shen, but was abducted by the Shredder as an infant and was renamed Karai. *Miwa Tamashiro (美和), a character in the anime series ''

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'' *Miwa Isono, a character in the manga series '' MPD Psycho'' *Miwa Kageyama (美羽), the sister of Tobio Kageyama from the anime and manga series ''

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'' ;With the surname Miwa * Satoshi Miwa (三輪), a character in the manga and anime ''

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'' *Sakamori Miwa (三輪), a character in the anime series ''

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'' *Ichigen Miwa (三輪一言), a character in the anime series K * Shinobu Miwa (三輪), a character in the anime, manga, and novel series ''

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'' *Konekomaru Miwa (三輪), a character in

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*Kasumi Miwa (三輪霞), a character in ''

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'' *Taishi Miwa (三和タイシ), a character in ''

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