Yukio is a masculine
Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yukio can be written using different combinations of
kanji
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characters. Here are some examples:
*幸夫, "happiness, man"
*幸生, "happiness, live"
*幸男, "happiness, man"
*幸雄, "happiness, male"
*行夫, "to go, man"
*行男, "to go, man"
*行雄, "to go, male"
*之夫, "of, man"
*之男, "of, man"
*之雄, "of, male"
*由起夫, "reason, to rise, man"
*由紀夫, "reason, chronicle, man"
*由記雄, "reason, scribe, male"
*悠紀夫, "long time, chronicle, man"
*雪雄, "snow, male"
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'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...
ゆきお 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 fr ...
ユキオ.
Notable people with the name
*, Japanese pocket billiards player
*, pseudonym of
Akiyuki Nosaka (野坂 昭如), Japanese novelist, singer, lyricist, and politician
*, Japanese politician who was Governor of Tokyo
*, Japanese baseball player
*, youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese video game developer
*, Japanese equestrian
*, Japanese popular singer
*, Japanese Prime Minister
*, Japanese cook and television presenter
*, Japanese lawyer
*, Japanese gymnast
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese motorcycle racer
*, Japanese soldier
*, Japanese ski jumper
*, Japanese rower
*, Japanese writer
*, Japanese rugby football player
*, Japanese theatre director
*, Japanese boxer
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Yukio Okutsu (1921–2003), Hawaiian soldier who won the US Congressional Medal of Honor
*, Japanese politician
*
Yukio Ozaki (artist) (born 1948) Japanese-born American visual artist
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Yukio Peter (born 1984), Nauruan weightlifter
*, Russian sumo wrestler
*, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese naval aviator who led the first official kamikaze attack
*
Yukio Shimoda (1921–1981), American actor
*
Yukio Shmull (died 2018), Palauan politician
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese Supreme Court justice
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese judoka
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese musician
*, Japanese murderer
*
Yukio Yung, pseudonym of Terry Burrows, English writer and musician
Fictional characters
*
Yukio (雪緒), a heroine in the X-Men comics
*Yukio, female character in the
Eric Van Lustbader novel,
The Ninja
* (Johnny) in the anime ''
Mahoraba''
*
Yukio Mashimi in the anime ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''
* in the anime ''Digimon''
* in the manga ''
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*, the twin character of the main protagonist Rin Okumura from the anime/manga, ''
Blue Exorcist''
*, a character from the anime/manga, ''
Black Lagoon''
*, one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga, ''
Kaiji''
*, also known as "Fake Akagi", a character from the anime/manga, ''
Akagi''
*, a character from the anime ''
Gundam Build Divers''
Other
*
5513 Yukio, asteroid
*"Death and Night and Blood (Yukio)", a song by The Stranglers from ''
Black and White
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Japanese masculine given names
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