Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Shun

駿しゅん

A boy name with 3 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 駿, combines swift horse.

Hiragana
しゅん
Katakana
シュン
Romaji (Hepburn)
Shun
Morae
2 しゅん
Gender
Boy

Kanji spellings

The same name can be written with different characters. Parents choose the kanji for its meaning.

Nicknames

How friends and family might shorten Shun. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • しゅんくんshun-kun
  • しゅんちゃんshun-chan
  • しゅーちゃんshu-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.