and are feminine

Japanese given name in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming children, and foreigners when adoptin ...

Written forms

Yuka and Yūka can be written using different

kanji are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are ...

characters and can mean: *由香, "reason, fragrance" *由華, "reason, beautiful" *由佳, "reason, good" *由花, "reason, flower" *有佳, "exist, good" *有香, "exist, fragrance" *有華, "exist, beautiful" *優花, "tenderness, flower" *優香, "tenderness, fragrance" *結花, "link, flower" 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", ...

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

;pronounced Yuka * Yuka (有香), a Japanese singer * Yuka (有華) a Japanese singer-songwriter *, a Japanese long-distance runner *, a Japanese rhythmic gymnast *, a Japanese snowboarder *, a Japanese ice hockey player *

Yuka Hirata is a Japanese actress, voice actress, tarento, and gravure idol from Hokkaido. She portrayed Mere in the Super Sentai Series ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger''. She has also appeared in ''Food Fight'', an episode of Carlos, and several idol videos. In ...

(裕香), a Japanese actress and gravure idol *

Yuka Honda is a Japanese-American musician who resides in New York City. She is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly piano, synthesizer, sampler and other keyboards), composer, record producer, and co-founder of the band Cibo Matto. Throughout her career, she ...

(ゆか), a Japanese musician * Yuka Hoshaku (有香), a Japanese actress *

Yuka Iguchi is a Japanese voice actress and singer. Biography She auditioned for Broccoli Broccoli (''Brassica oleracea'' var. ''italica'') is an edible green plant in the Brassicaceae, cabbage family (family Brassicaceae, genus ''Brassica'') whose l ...

(井口裕香, born 1988), a Japanese voice actress *

Yuka Imai is a Japanese former voice actress who was previously represented by Gekidan Moonlight and by Atomic Monkey at the time of her retirement. She was born in Atami, Shizuoka. On August 30, 2018, Imai announced her retirement from voice acting, wh ...

(由香, born 1970), a Japanese voice actress *

Yuka Inokuchi is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with Ken Production. She is originally from Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. She voices Uzume in ''Ai Yori Aoshi'', Rin Kamishiro in '' Maburaho'', Anju Maaka in ''Karin'', Tabitha in ''The Familiar of ...

(有佳), a Japanese voice actress *, a Japanese table tennis player * Yuka Itaya (由夏), a Japanese actress and newscaster *, a Japanese speed skater *

Yuka Kashino , nicknamed , is a Japanese singer and dancer. She is known as one of the members of the electropop group Perfume. Biography Kashino was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, where she attended Actor's School Hiroshima with friends and current ...

(有香), a Japanese singer and a member of

Perfume Perfume (, ) is a mixture of fragrance, fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), Fixative (perfumery), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agre ...

*, a Japanese swimmer *

Yuka Komatsu is a Japanese actress, Voice acting in Japan, voice actress, and narrator from Tokyo. She is affiliated with Aoni Production. Biography Her father was a filmmaker and her mother grew up in a family atmosphere where the movies were nearby. Sinc ...

(born 1978) a Japanese voice actress * Yuka Kosaka (由佳), a Japanese gravure idol, actress and model *, a Japanese gravure idol, television personality and actress *, a Japanese racewalker * Yuka Motohashi (由香), a Japanese actress * Yuka Murayama (由佳), a modern Japanese writer *, a Japanese goalball player *, a Japanese voice actress *, a Japanese ice hockey player * Yuka Onishi (結花), a Japanese actress and singer * Yuka Orihara (born 2000), a Finnish ice dancer *

Yuka Sakazaki is a Japanese professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She is known for her tenure with Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, where she is a three-time Princess of Princess Champion, and a record-tying four-time Princess Tag Team ...

(坂崎ユカ, born 1992), is a Japanese professional wrestler *, a Japanese ten-pin bowler *

Yuka Sato is a Japanese former competitive figure skater and choreographer. She is the 1994 World champion, the 1990 World Junior champion and the 1993 & 1994 Japanese national champion. She placed 7th at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 5th at the 19 ...

(有香), a Japanese figure skater * Yuka Saitō (essayist) (由香), a Japanese essayist and Suntory employee *

Yuka Saitō (voice actress) is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Aoni Production. Personal life In May 2015, she married fellow voice actor, Takeshi Kusao, and they have a child born in 2018. She announced on her Twitter that she gave birth to a second child on N ...

(佑圭), a Japanese voice actress *, a Japanese attempted murderer * Yuka Terasaki (寺崎裕香), a Japanese voice actress * Yuka Tsujiyoko (由佳), a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo *, a Japanese sailor ;pronounced Yūka * Yūka (優香), a Japanese actress *, a member of

Hinatazaka46 is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The group was established as a subgroup of Sakurazaka46, Keyakizaka46 named Hiragana Keyakizaka46 on 30 November 2015, and was renamed and spun off into its own group on 11 February 2019. ...

*, a Japanese YouTuber *

Yuuka Maeda is a former Japanese singer. After joining Hello Pro Egg, a trainee program associated with Hello! Project, she achieved early fame as Amulet Heart in Shugo Chara Egg! before debuting in S/mileage, a Japanese idol girl group associated with ...

(憂佳), an ex-member of the Hello! Project group S/mileage *, a Japanese women's footballer * Yuuka Nanri (侑香), a Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer * Yuka Nomura (佑香), a Japanese actress *, a Japanese politician *

Yuka Saso (born 20 June 2001) is a Japanese professional golfer. Saso was born in the Philippines, competing for them through 2021, having won the first ever gold medal for the Philippines in both women's individual and women's team event in Asian Games ...

(笹生優花), a Japanese professional golfer * Yūka Setō (勢藤優花), a Japanese ski jumper *, an ex-member of

Sakurazaka46 , formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The group was created on August 21, 2015, becoming Nogizaka46's first sister group under the Sakamichi Series. The group was rebranded as Sakurazaka46 after their last conce ...

* Yūka Tano (優花), an ex-member of

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48 has sold more records than any other female musical act in Japanese history. AK ...

Fictional characters

;pronounced Yuka * Yuka Koizumi, a character from ''

Guru Guru Pon-chan is a Japanese manga series by Satomi Ikezawa about a Labrador puppy, named Ponta, who turns into a human and falls in love with Mirai Iwaki, who's very popular in his school. In 2000, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. It was publ ...

'' * Yuka Nakagawa, a character from the '' Battle Royale'' novel, films and manga from the same name * Yuka Takeuchi, a character from the ''

Variable Geo , also known as ''V.G.'', is a Japanese 2D computer graphics, 2D fighting game and eroge series developed and published by Technical Group Laboratory, TGL for consoles and under their Giga (brand), Giga brand for home computers. The series foc ...

'' fighting game series * Yuka, one of Kagome's schoolmates from '' InuYasha'' * Yuka, a character from ''

Elfen Lied is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's Seinen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from June 2002 to August 2005, with its 107 chapters collected into twelve volumes. ''El ...

'' * Yuka Sanada, a character from ''

Genseishin Justirisers , lit. ''Phantom Star God Justirisers'', is a tokusatsu superhero TV series produced by Toho and airing on TV Tokyo. This series is the second in Toho's Chouseishin Series, Seishin (Star God) series. The show aired 51 episodes between October 2, ...

'' * Yuka Mochida, a character from ''

Corpse Party is a supernatural survival horror adventure and dōjin soft video game series originally created by Makoto Kedōin and developed by Team GrisGris. The series has spawned several manga works, an anime OVA series, drama CDs, theme park attraction ...

'' * Yuka Kon, a character from ''

World Trigger , also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was initially serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from February 2013 to November 2018, and transferred to '' Jump Square'' in December ...

'' * Yuka Osada, a character from ''

Kamen Rider 555 is a Japanese tokusatsu television drama. It is the 13th installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and was broadcast on TV Asahi from January 26, 2003, to January 18, 2004. This seri ...

'' * Yuka Ohta, a character from '' Ultraman Z'' ;pronounced Yūka * Yūka Kazami, a character from the ''

Touhou Project The , also known simply as , is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by Indie game, independent Japanese Doujin soft, soft developer Team Shanghai Alice. The team's sole member, ZUN (video game developer), Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta, ha ...

'' danmaku game series *Yūka Ichijō, a character from ''

AKB0048 ''AKB0048'' (stylized as ''AKB∞48'') is a 2012 Japanese science fiction musical comedy anime television series based on the idol group AKB48. The anime is produced by Satelight, with Shōji Kawamori as chief director. The first season aired ...

'' *Yūka Hayase, a character from the role-playing game ''

Blue Archive ''Blue Archive'' is a 2021 real-time strategy role-playing game developed by the South Korean developer MX Studio under the management umbrella of Nexon Games (formerly NAT Games). The player and protagonist is a Sensei who was summoned ...

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