Yuri (Japanese name)

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Japanese long distance runner Yuri Kano in Berlin

Yuri (ゆり, ユリ) is a Japanese given name. Although it sounds similar, it is completely unrelated to the Slavic name Yuri.

Written forms

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

• 由里, "reason, village"
• 由理, "reason, logic"
• 由利, "reason, profit"
• 由梨, "reason, pear"
• 祐里, "to help, village"
• 友里, "friend, village"
• 友理, "friend, logic"
• 有里, "exist, village"
• 有莉, "exist, white jasmine/pear"
• 百合, "lily"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese model and actress
• , Japanese singer and rapper
• , Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese opera singer
• , Japanese-American activist
• Yuri Komura (born 1992), Japanese ice hockey player
• , Japanese actress, writer and adult video actress
• , Japanese singer
• , Japanese actress and model
• Japanese field hockey player
• , Japanese model
• , Japanese actress and singer
• , Japanese composer and singer
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese voice actress and singer
• , Japanese voice actress
• , Japanese businesswoman
• , Japanese poet and calligrapher

Fictional characters

• , a character in the light novel series Dirty Pair
• , a character in the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!
• , a character in the anime series Aikatsu Stars!
• , a character in the anime series Angel Beats!
• , a character in the video game series Art of Fighting
• , a character in the manga series Red River
• , a character in the manga series Wedding Peach
• , a character from the anime HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
• , a character in the manga Watamote
• , a character in the film Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
• , a character in the multimedia BanG Dream!

Yūri

Template:Infobox given name Yūri or Yuuri (ゆうり, ユウリ) is a separate unisex Japanese given name, though it may be romanized the same way.

Written forms

• 悠里, "permanence, village"
• 裕理, "abundant, logic"
• 優理, "excellent, logic"
• 侑李, "urge to eat, plum"
• 勇利, "courage, profit"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• , Japanese singer and actor
• , Japanese golfer
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese singer
• , Japanese speed skater
• , Japanese snowboarder
• , Japanese actress
• , Japanese singer-songwriter and YouTuber

Fictional characters

• , a character in the manga series Girls' Last Tour
• , a character from Super Danganronpa Another 2: Moon of Hope and Sun of Despair
• and , characters in the anime series Yuri on Ice
• , a character from the video game series Fatal Frame
• , a character in the manga series School-Live!
• , a character in the Super Sentai season Mirai Sentai Timeranger
• , a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• , the main character in the video game Tales of Vesperia

See also

• Yuriko
• Yuri (Slavic name)
• Yu-ri (Korean name)
• All pages with titles beginning with Yuri