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Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 亜美, 亜実, 亜弥, 亜海, 次美, 次実, 次弥, 次海, 都久美, 都玖未(Japanese Kanji) つぐ美, つぐ実(Kanji/Hiragana) つぐみ(Japanese Hiragana) ツグミ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced Pron. TSUU-GUU-MEE  [key]

Meaning & History

This name combines 亜 (a, tsu.gu) meaning "Asia, come after, rank next" or 次 (shi, ji, tsugi, tsu.gu) meaning "next, order, sequence" with 美 (bi, mi, utsuku.shii) meaning "beautiful, beauty", 実 (shitsu, jitsu, makoto, makotoni, mi) meaning "reality, truth", 弥 (bi, mi, amaneshi, iya, iyoiyo, tooi, hisashi, hisa.shii, ya, wata.ru) meaning "all the more, increasingly" or 海 (kai, umi, mi) meaning "ocean, sea."
Rare examples of Tsugumi with 3 kanji include 都久美 and 都玖未 with 都 (tsu, to, miyako) meaning "capital, metropolis", 久 (kyuu, ku, hisa.shii) meaning "long time, old story", 玖 (kyuu, ku) meaning "beautiful black jewel, nine (used in legal documents)" and 未 (bi, mi, ima.da, hitsuji, ma.da) meaning "even now, hitherto, not yet, still, sign of the ram (8th sign of Chinese zodiac)."
This name also combines つぐ, the 2 phonetic characters that make up Tsugu with either 美 or 実.

Bearers of this name include actress and model Tsugumi (つぐみ), born Tsuzumi Ōtake (大竹 都々美) (1976-) and voice actress Tsugumi Higasayama (日笠山 亜美) (1978-).
Added 5/1/2009 by Shannon
Edited 3/9/2020 by Mike C and m4yb3_daijirou