Hideaki

Hideaki

Hideaki Anno, a Japanese animator, film director, and actor.
Pronunciation	Hí-dè-à-kí. Can have different pronunciations depending on the language used.
Gender	Male
Language	Japanese
Origin
Word/name	Japan
Meaning	Different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Hideki, Hideo

Hideaki (ひであき) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

Hideaki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 秀秋, "excellent", "autumn"
• 英秋, "outstanding", "autumn"
• 秀明, "excellent", "bright"
• 英明, "outstanding", "bright"
• 秀朗, "excellent", "clear"
• 秀昭, "excellent", "shining"
• 英昭, "outstanding", "shining"
• 秀章, "excellent", "composition"
• 秀聡, "excellent", "wise"
• 秀彰, "excellent", "clear"

A popular kanji is 明 (the combination of two different characters 日 = sun and 月 = moon) which means "the light coming from the sun", "sunlight and moonlight", "bright", "intelligent", "wisdom" or "truth".^{[citation needed]}

The name can also be written in hiragana.

People with the name

• Hideaki Aida (相田 秀晃; born 1943), Japanese rower
• Hideaki Akaiwa (born 1968), Japanese hero of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
• Hideaki Anno (庵野 秀明; born 1960), Japanese animator and film director
• Hideaki Hagino (萩野 英明; born 1973), Japanese footballer
• Kobayakawa Hideaki (小早川 秀秋; 1577–1602), Japanese daimyō
• Iba Hideaki (伊庭秀明; 1648–1717), Japanese swordsman
• Hideaki Inaba (因幡 英昭; born 1944), Japanese powerlifter
• Hideaki Ishi (石 英明; born 1962), Japanese record producer and DJ Krush
• Hideaki Itsuno (伊津野 英昭; born 1971), Japanese video game director and designer
• Hideaki Itō (伊藤 英明; born 1975), Japanese actor
• Hideaki Kamei (亀井 秀明; born 1949), Japanese fencer
• Hideaki Kase (加瀬 英明; born 1936), Japanese diplomat
• Hideaki Kawamura (河村 英昭; born 1974), Japanese hurdler
• Hideaki Kikuchi (菊地 英昭; born 1964), Japanese guitarist
• Hideaki Kitajima (北嶋 秀朗; born 1978), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Kobayashi (composer) (小林 秀聡; born 1973), Japanese composer
• Hideaki Kobayashi (diplomat) (小林 秀明; born 1945), Japanese diplomat
• Hideaki Kurokawa (黒川 秀明; born 1944), Japanese ice hockey player
• Hideaki Maeguchi (前口 英明; born 1960), Japanese rower
• Hideaki Matsuura (松裏 英明; born 1981), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Miyamura (born 1955), Japanese-born American potter
• Hideaki Mori (森 秀昭; born 1972), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Motoyama (本山 秀昭; born 1969), Japanese badminton player
• Hideaki Nitani (二谷 英明; 1930–2012), Japanese actor
• Hideaki Okabe (岡部 英明; born 1959), Japanese politician
• Hideaki Okubo (大久保 秀昭; born 1969), Japanese baseball player
• Hideaki Ōmura (大村 秀章; born 1960), Japanese politician
• Hideaki Ozawa (小澤 英明; born 1974), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Sena (瀬名 秀明; born 1968), Japanese pharmacologist and writer
• Hideaki Sorachi (空知 英秋; born 1979), Japanese manga artist
• Hideaki Takatori (高取 秀明; born 1967), Japanese singer and composer
• Hideaki Takeda (武田 英明; born 1985), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Takizawa (滝沢 秀明; born 1982), Japanese actor and singer
• Hideaki Tezuka (手塚 秀彰; born 1954), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Hideaki Tokunaga (德永 英明; born 1961), Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
• Hideaki Tominaga (富永 英明; born 1976), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Tomiyama (富山 英明; born 1957), Japanese sport wrestler
• Hideaki Ueno (上野 秀章; born 1981), Japanese footballer
• Hideaki Utsumi (内海 秀明; born 1973), Japanese video game composer
• Hideaki Wakui (涌井 秀章; born 1986), Japanese baseball player
• Hideaki Yamada (山田 秀明; born 1960), Japanese cross-country skier
• Hideaki Yamazaki (山崎 秀晃; born 1987), Japanese kickboxer
• Hideaki Yanagida (柳田 英明; born 1947), Japanese sport wrestler

Fictional characters

• Hideaki Kurashige (倉茂 秀明), a character in the manga series Miracle Girls
• Hideaki Mashimo (真下 ヒデアキ), a character in the anime series Digimon Fusion
• Hideaki Nakajima (中嶋 英明), a character in the manga series Gakuen Heaven
• Hideaki Tōjō (東条 秀明), a character in the manga series Ace of Diamond
• Hideaki Yoshizawa (吉沢 秀明), a character in the manga series Ace of Diamond

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