![]() Yamato Takeru, the legendary prince of the imperial dynasty | |
Pronunciation | [ta.ke.ɾɯ] |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
Region of origin | Japanese |
Other names | |
Related names | Takeo |
Takeru (たける, タケル) is a masculine Japanese given name.
Orthography
[edit]Takeru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 武, "warrior"
- 猛, "fierce"
- 健, "health"
- 尊, "noble"
- 岳, "mountain"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Kanji combinations of the name are:
- 武尊
- 武瑠
- 武流
- 武琉
- 武留
- 丈瑠
- 丈流
- 丈琉
- 丈留
- 尊瑠
- 尊流
- 尊琉
- 尊留
People
[edit]- Takeru Imamura (猛), a Japanese baseball player
- Takeru Inukai (健), a Japanese politician
- Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (尊), a Japanese competitive eater
- Takeru (Sug) (武瑠), a Japanese singer from the rock band Sug
- Takeru Nagayoshi (たける), a Japanese manga artist
- Takeru Satoh (健), a Japanese actor, portrays Ryotaro Nogami in tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
- Takeru Segawa (世川 武尊, born 1991), Japanese kickboxer
- Yamato Takeru (タケル), legendary Japanese prince
Fictional characters
[edit]- Takeru (aka RedMask), a character in Hikari Sentai Maskman
- Takeru (タケル), the main character in the Freedom Project by Nissin Cup Noodles
- Takeru (猛), secondary character from the visual novel, anime and manga Togainu no Chi
- Takeru Danma, a character known as "The Hatter" in Alice in Borderland, played by Nobuaki Kaneko
- Takeru Edogawa, a character in the manga series The Devil Does Exist
- Takeru Fujiwara, a character from Prince of Stride
- Takeru Ibaraki, a character in the American comic book series Witchblade
- Takeru Mizushima (タケル), a character in the Japanese TV drama Last Friends
- Takeru Ohyama, the main character in the anime and manga series Maken-ki!
- Takeru Shiba, a character in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
- Takeru Shirogane, the main character in the visual novel series Muv-Luv
- Takeru "T.K." Takaishi (タケル), a character in the anime and manga Digimon
- Takeru Takemoto (タケル), a character in the anime This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
- Takeru Teshimine (猛), a character in the anime and manga series GetBackers
- Takeru Yamato, the main character in the Dragon Knight series of Anime/H-games
- Takeru Tenkūji, the main character in Kamen Rider Ghost
- Takeru Tsukumo, a main character in the manga Exoskull Zero
- Takeru Jakuzure, a character from Garo
- Takeru Homura, a main character in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
- Takeru Totsuka, a main character in Kamigami no Asobi
Other uses
[edit]- Takeru: Letter of the Law, an interactive manga
- Takeru, video game developer and publisher
- Brother Industries Takeru, software distribution mechanism in Japan