Yū
Yū or Yu or Yuu is a very common Japanese given name used by either sex.Possible writings
Yū can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 優, "tenderness" or "superiority"
- 夕, "evening"
- 友, "friend"
- 有, "qualified"
- 勇, "courage"
- 祐, "help"
- 裕, "abundant"
- 雄, "masculine"
- 悠, "permanence"
- 由宇, "reason, eaves"
- 侑, "assist"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.People
;with the given name Yū
- Yu Aida, a Japanese manga artist and illustrator
- Yū Aoi, a Japanese actress
- Yū Asagiri, a Japanese manga artist
- Yū Asakawa, a Japanese voice actress
- Yu Darvish, an Iranian-Japanese starting pitcher
- Yū Hayami, a Japanese pop singer and actress
- Yuu Kashii, a Japanese actress and model
- Yuu Kikkawa, a Japanese pop singer
- Yū Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army
- Yu Kimura, Japanese boxer
- Yu Kimura, Japanese footballer
- Yū Kobayashi, a Japanese voice actress
- Yu Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
- Yū Koyama, a Japanese manga artist
- Yu Minobe, Japanese artistic gymnast
- Yu Miyahara, Japanese sport wrestler
- Yuu Miyake, a Japanese composer and sound engineer
- Yū Mizushima, a Japanese voice actor
- Yu Nakajima, a Japanese Rubik's Cube solver
- Yu Nakasato, Japanese women's footballer
- Yū Sasahara, Japanese voice actress
- Yū Shimaka, a Japanese voice actor
- Yū Shimamura, Japanese voice actress
- Yuu Shirota, a Japanese-Spanish actor and singer
- Yuu Shiroyama, real name of The Gazette's guitarist Aoi
- Yū Sugimoto, a Japanese voice actress
- Yu Suzuki, a Japanese game designer and producer
- Yu Takahashi, a Japanese singer-songwriter
- Yū Terashima, a Japanese manga artist
- Yu Todoroki, a Japanese Takarasienne
- Yū Wakui:, a Japanese voice actress
- Yuu Watase, a Japanese shōjo manga artist
- Yuu Yabuuchi, a Japanese manga artist
- Yu Yagami, a Japanese manga artist
- Yu Yamada, a Ryukyuan model, actress, and singer
- Yu Yokoyama, a member of the Japanese idol group Kanjani8
Fictional characters
;with the given name Yū
- Yu Kajima, a character from the Gundam anime series
- Yuu Asou, a character from the ' video game series
- Yū Kanda, a main character in the manga series D.Gray-man
- Yū Komori, a main character in '
- Yuu Matsuura, a central character in the shōjo manga series Marmalade Boy
- Yū Nishinoya, a character from the Haikyū!! anime series
- Yuu Kashima, a character from the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime series
- Yu Ominae, the main character of the manga series Spriggan
- Yu Narukami, the official name of the protagonist of Persona 4
- Yū Kōtari, a character from the BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER anime series
