Chika (Japanese given name)

Chika (ちか, チカ) is a feminine Japanese given name. The name Chika can be written with the kanji characters 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" or 散 (chi) meaning "scatter" combined with 佳 (ka) meaning "good, fine" or 花 (ka) meaning "flower".[1] Chika can also be written with many different kanji characters thus, giving the name various meanings.

Chika
PronunciationCHEE-kah
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
MeaningDepending on the kanji used, it have many different meanings
Region of originJapan

Possible writings in Japanese

edit

Chika can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

  • 千佳, "thousand, excellence"
  • 千夏, "thousand, summer"
  • 千賀, "thousand, celebration"
  • 千香, "thousand, fragrance"
  • 千花, "thousand, flower"
  • 千華, "thousand, chinese flower"
  • 千果, "thousand, fruit"
  • 知香, "knowledge, fragrance"
  • 知佳, "knowledge, excellence"
  • 智香, "wisdom, fragrance"
  • 愛, "love" (nanori reading)

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

edit
  • Chika, a member of the Japanese girl group D&D
  • Chika Anzai (安済 知佳, born 1990), Japanese voice actress
  • Chika Aoki (青木 千佳, born 1990), Japanese fencer
  • Chika Hirao (平尾 知佳, born 1996), Japanese women's footballer
  • Chika Kato (加藤 千佳, born 1994), Japanese professional footballer
  • Chika Kodama (born 1970), Japanese softball player
  • Chika Kuroda (黒田 チカ, 1884–1968), Japanese chemist
  • Chika Otaki (大滝 知香, born 1998), Japanese ice hockey player
  • Chika Sagawa (左川 ちか, 1911–1936), Japanese avant-garde poet
  • Chika Sakamoto (千夏, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
  • Chica Umino (羽海野 チカ), Japanese manga artist
  • Chika Yoshida (吉田 知加, born 1979), Japanese singer and songwriter
  • Chika Yoshida (吉田 ちか, born 1984), Japanese YouTuber known as Bilingirl
  • Exo-Chika, founding member of Aural Vampire (オーラルヴァンパイア), Japanese group

Fictional characters

edit

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Chika (2)".