Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Tsubasa

翼つばさ

A unisex name with 2 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 翼, combines wing.

Hiragana
つばさ
Katakana
ツバサ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Tsubasa
Morae
3 つばさ
Gender
Unisex

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 Tsubasa. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • つばちゃんtsuba-chan
  • つばくんtsuba-kun
  • つばさちゃんtsubasa-chan
  • つばさくんtsubasa-kun
  • つーちゃんtsu-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

  • 林 翼Tsubasa Hayashi
  • 森 翼Tsubasa Mori
  • 石川 翼Tsubasa Ishikawa

Names that share a kanji