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Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 千種, 千草, 智草, 知草, 千久紗, 智久紗(Japanese Kanji) ちぐ沙(Kanji/Hiragana) ちぐさ(Japanese Hiragana) チグサ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced Pron. CHEE-GUU-SAH  [key]

Meaning & History

This name can be used as 千種, 千草, 智草 or 知草 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand," 智 (chi) meaning "intellect, wisdom," 知 (chi, shi.raseru, shi.ru) meaning "know, wisdom," 種 (shu, -gusa, tane) meaning "class, kind, seed, species, variety" and 草 (sou, kusa, kusa-, -gusa) meaning "grass, herb, weed."
Examples of Chigusa with 3 kanji include 千久紗 and 智久紗 with 久 (kyuu, ku, hisa.shii) meaning "long time" and 紗 (sa, sha, usuginu) meaning "gauze, gossamer."
Chigusa can also be used by combining 2 phonetic characters (ちぐ) making up Chigu and 沙 (sa, sha, suna, yonageru) meaning "sand."

As a word, Chigusa (千種 & 千草) refers to a great variety of flowering plants. Also, it's an abbreviation of 千草色 (chigusairo/ちぐさいろ) which resembles a light greenish-blue colour.

Chigusa is also used as a surname.
Added 1/28/2015 by m4yb3_daijirou
Edited 3/9/2020 by Mike C and m4yb3_daijirou