Yū
Yū or Yu or Yuu is a very common Japanese given name used by either sex.
Written forms
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"
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
- Yu Fukumoto, Japanese footballer
- Yū Hayami, a Japanese pop singer and actress
- Yū Hasebe, a Japanese actress, singer and model
- Yū Hayashi, a Japanese voice actor and singer
- Yuu Kashii, a Japanese actress and model
- Yuu Kikkawa, a Japanese pop singer
- Yū Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army
- Yu Kimura (boxer), Japanese boxer
- Yu Kimura (footballer), Japanese footballer
- Yū Kobayashi, a Japanese voice actress
- Yu Kobayashi (footballer), 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 Serizawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
- Yū Shiina, usually written You Shiina, Japanese illustrator and manga artist
- 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
- Yu Tomiyasu, a member of the idol group ''NEXZ''
Fictional characters
- Yuu Asou, a character from the Fatal Frame III: The Tormented video game series
- Yu Ishigami, a character from the manga series Kaguya-sama: Love is War
- Yu Kajima, a character from the Gundam anime series
- Yū Kanda, a main character in the manga series D.Gray-man
- Yū Kashima, a character from the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime series
- Yu Kirasawa, a character from Ultraman Nexus known as the "Illustrator"
- Yū Kisaragi, a character from the anime series The Idolmaster
- Yū Komori, a main character in Spider-Man: The Manga
- Yū Koito, the main character from the anime Bloom into You
- Yū Kōtari, a character from the BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER anime series
- Yuu Matsuura, a central character in the shōjo manga series Marmalade Boy
- Yū Nanba, a supporting character and party member in Yakuza: Like a Dragon
- Yu Narukami, the main protagonist from the video game Persona 4
- Yū Naruse, a main character in the manga No Matter [How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!|WataMote]
- Yū Nishinoya, a character from the Haikyū!! anime series
- Yu Ominae, the main character of the manga series Spriggan
- Yū Otosaka, a character from the anime television series Charlotte
- Yū Takasaki, a character from the anime series Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
- Yū Sonoda, a character from the manga series Sakura Trick
- Yū Tendo, a character from the anime series Beyblade: Metal Fusion
- Yū, a character from Dōbutsu no Mori (film)