Tomio
Appearance
Pronunciation | tomio (IPA) |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Tomio (Kunrei-shiki)
Tomio (Nihon-shiki) Tomio (Hepburn) |
Tomio is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
[edit]Tomio can be written using different combinations of Kanji characters. Some examples:
- 富雄, "enrich, masculine"
- 富男, "enrich, man"
- 富夫, "enrich, husband"
- 冨雄, "enrich, masculine"
- 冨男, "enrich, man"
- 冨夫, "enrich, husband"
- 斗巳雄, "Big Dipper, a sign of the snake (Chinese zodiac), masculine"
The name can also be written in hiragana とみお or katakana トミオ.
Notable people with the name
[edit]- Tomio Aoki (青木 富夫, 1923–2004), Japanese film actor
- Tomio Fujii (藤井 富雄, 1924–2021), Japanese politician
- Tomio Hora (洞 富雄, 1906–2000), Japanese historian
- Tomio Hosoda (細田 富男, 1926–2008), Japanese sprinter
- Tomio Imamura (今村 富雄, born 1958), Japanese karateka
- Tomio Kondō (近藤 福雄, 1900–1957), Japanese photographer
- Tomio Koyanagi (小柳 富男, born 1916), Japanese diver
- Tomio Kubota (久保田 富雄, 1930–2020), Japanese mathematician
- Tomio Mizokami (溝上 富夫, born 1948), Japanese professor at Osaka University
- Tomio Fukuoka (福岡 富雄, born 1936), Japanese educator
- Tomio Moriguchi (森口 富雄, born 1936), American businessman
- Tomio Murai (村井 富雄, born 1948), Japanese rower
- Tomio Okamura (岡村 富夫, born 1972), Czech-Japanese politician and entrepreneur
- Tomio Okamura (cross-country skier) (岡村 富雄, born 1948), Japanese cross-country skier
- Tomio Ota (太田 富夫, born 1936), Japanese triple jumper
- Tomio Sasaki (佐々木 富雄, born 1945), Japanese alpine skier
- Tomio Sumimoto (隅本 富夫, born 1945), Japanese sprint canoer
- Tomio Tashiro (田代 富雄, born 1954), Japanese baseball player
- Tomio Yamazaki (山崎 富美雄, born 1947), Japanese ice hockey player
Places
[edit]- Tomio Building and Tomio Department Store, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
See also
[edit]- Tomio Station, a railway station in Nara Prefecture, Japan