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Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 逍遥, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced Pron. SHO:-YO:  [key]

Meaning & History

From Japanese 逍 (shou) meaning "shining" combined with 遥 (you) meaning "sun, light". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.

A famous male bearer of this name is Tsubouchi Shōyō, he was a Japanese author, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University.
Added 12/31/2016 by lilolaf
Edited 4/7/2017 by Sofia and lilolaf