Hanako (given name)
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Hanako |
| pronunciation | han-nah-koh |
| gender | Female |
| meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
| region | Japan |
| origin | Japanese |
| related names | Hana |
| Kanako | |
| :: |
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Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower child", and another being 華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 子 is the second kanji, meaning 'child').
It is often seen as an archetypal name for females. It was a popular name for female elephants in Japan imported in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the first part of the name, Hana, could be taken as reference to an elephant's nose.
People
- Hanako Footman (born 1994), British-Japanese actress and writer
- Hanako Greensmith (born 1996), American actress
- Hanako Honda, Japanese politician
- Hanako Jimi, Japanese politician
- Hanako Miura, Japanese gymnast
- Hanako Muraoka, Japanese novelist and translator
- Hanako Nakamori, Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Okada, Japanese lawyer and politician
- Hanako Oku, Japanese singer and songwriter
- Hanako Oshima, Japanese singer
- Hanako Takigawa, Japanese actress, tarento and gravure idol
- Hanako Tokachi, Japanese actress and tarento
- Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan
- Hanako Ueda, Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Utsumi, Japanese rugby sevens player
- Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"
Fictional characters
- Hanako (ハナコ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) in the Pokémon anime
- Hanako, a character of the manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory
- Hanako, a character of the drama Hanako to Anne
- Hanako Hanazawa, a classmate character from Sazae-san
- Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with debilitating social anxiety derived from her burn scars from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
- Hanako Ichiro, a Shiba Inu owned by Inuyashiki Ichiro, from the manga Inuyashiki by Hiroya Oku
- Hanako-kun (ghost), formerly Amane Yugi, the title character from the anime and manga series Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Hanako Ohmuro, a character from YuruYuri
- Hanako-san, yokai in the girl toilet in Friday the 13th and Tuesday the 13th
- Hanako Sonoyama, a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS
- Hanako Urawa, a character from Blue Archive
- Hanako Yamada, a character of the video game Yandere Simulator
- Hanako Yumadagi, a main and protagonist of character of anime series Ongaku Shoujo
Other
- Hanako (elephant) (1947–2016), an elephant who lived in Japan
- Hanako (fish), a fish which lived to be more than 200 years old
References
References
- Takeda, Hiroko. (2004-09-23). "The Political Economy of Reproduction in Japan: Between Nation-State and Everyday Life". [[Routledge]].
- Itoh, Mayumi. (2010). "Zoos in Japan in the Early Postwar Years". [[Palgrave Macmillan US]].
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