Tokio is a masculine
Japanese given name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...
.
Possible writings
Tokio can be written using different combinations of
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...
characters. Some examples:
*時雄, "hour, masculine"
*時男, "hour, man"
*時夫, "hour, husband"
*刻雄, "engrave, masculine"
*刻男, "engrave, man"
*刻夫, "engrave, husband"
*晨雄, "morning, masculine"
*期雄, "period, masculine"
*登喜夫, "climb up, rejoice, husband"
*登紀夫, "climb up, chronicle, husband"
The name can also be written in
hiragana
is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...
ときお or
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 f ...
トキオ.
Notable people with the name
*, Japanese hurdler
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese cross-country skier
*, Japanese actor and voice actor
*, Japanese physicist
*, Japanese table tennis player
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Japanese masculine given names