Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Yuki

雪ゆき

A unisex name with 4 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 雪, combines snow.

Hiragana
ゆき
Katakana
ユキ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Yuki
Morae
2 ゆき
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 Yuki. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • ゆきちゃんyuki-chan
  • ゆきくんyuki-kun
  • ゆーちゃんyu-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

Names that share a kanji