Yūji

Yūji
Yuji Nakazawa, a football player
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Yōji Yū Yūjirō

Yūji or Yuji (ゆうじ, ユウジ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

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

• 勇二, "courage, second"
• 祐次, "help, next"
• 裕司, "abundant, rule"
• 雄治, "masculine, govern"
• 悠児, "permanence, child"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Yūji Fujishiro (裕士, born 1940), Japanese voice actor
• Yuji Hino (裕士, born 1985), Japanese professional wrestler
• Yuji Horii (雄二, born 1954), Japanese video game designer
• Yuji Hirayama (平山ユージ), Japanese professional rock climber
• Yuji Iiyama (飯山裕志), Japanese baseball player
• Yūji Iwahara (裕二), Japanese manga artist
• Yūji Kishi (祐二, born 1970), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Yūji Mitsuya (雄二, born 1954), Japanese actor, voice actor, and sound supervisor
• Yuji Miura (三浦, born 195?), Japanese ski mountaineer and trail runner
• Yuji Nagata (裕志, born 1968), Japanese professional wrestler
• Yuji Naka (裕司, born 1965), Japanese video game designer and programmer
• Yuji Nakazawa (佑二, born 1978), Japanese football player
• Yuji Nakamura (athlete) (中村祐二, born 1970), Japanese long-distance runner
• Yuji Nishino (born 1991), Japanese baseball player
• Yūji Oda (裕二, born 1967), Japanese actor and singer
• Yuji Ohno (雄二), Japanese jazz musician
• Yuji Okabayashi (裕二, born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler
• Yuji Okano (born 1964), Japanese shot putter
• Yūji Takada (裕司, born 1960), Japanese actor and voice actor
• Yūji Ueda (ゆうじ, born 1967), Japanese voice actor
• Yuji Yamamoto (born 1952), Japanese politician
• Yūji Aoki (1945–2003), Japanese manga artist
• Yūji (1987-, born Thomas Yuji Gordon), a Japanese-American actor, model, and television personality

Characters

With the given name Yūji:

• Yuji Sakai (悠二), the main character of the light novel, anime, and manga series Shakugan no Shana
• Yuuji (Digimon)
• Yuji Kataoka (片岡優二), Soccer Forward who plays for Tourin Junior high in Kattobi Itto
• Yuji Torii (鳥居雄司), Sub player for Meiho High in Buttobi Itto
• Yuji Tsuji, Forward for Minami Urawa in Buttobi Itto

See also

• 47077 Yuji, a Main-belt Asteroid