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Goku

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Gender Masculine
Usage Literature, Popular Culture
Scripts 悟空(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced Pron. GO-KOO(Japanese)
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Japanese calque of Wukong, referring to the Monkey King. Starting in 1984 it was used by Akira Toriyama for the hero in the Dragon Ball manga, and subsequently in several animated television series and video games.

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Dragon Ball characters, fictional characters
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Entry added April 25, 2021

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