Chika (Japanese given name)

Chika (ちか, チカ) is a feminine Japanese given name. The name Chika can be written with the kanji characters 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" or 散 (chi) meaning "scatter" combined with 佳 (ka) meaning "good, fine" or 花 (ka) meaning "flower".^[1] Chika can also be written with many different kanji characters thus, giving the name various meanings.

Chika

Pronunciation	CHEE-kah
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Depending on the kanji used, it have many different meanings
Region of origin	Japan

Written forms in Japanese

Chika can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 千佳, "thousand, excellence"
• 千夏, "thousand, summer"
• 千賀, "thousand, celebration"
• 千香, "thousand, fragrance"
• 千花, "thousand, flower"
• 千華, "thousand, chinese flower"
• 千果, "thousand, fruit"
• 知香, "knowledge, fragrance"
• 知佳, "knowledge, excellence"
• 智香, "wisdom, fragrance"
• 愛, "love" (nanori reading)

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Chika, a member of the Japanese girl group D&D
• Chika Anzai (安済 知佳; born 1990), Japanese voice actress
• Chika Aoki (青木 千佳; born 1990), Japanese fencer
• Chika Hirao (平尾 知佳; born 1996), Japanese women's footballer
• Chika Kato (加藤 千佳; born 1994), Japanese professional footballer
• Chika Kodama (born 1970), Japanese softball player
• Chika Kuroda (黒田 チカ; 1884–1968), Japanese chemist
• Chika Otaki (大滝 知香; born 1998), Japanese ice hockey player
• Chika Sagawa (左川 ちか; 1911–1936), Japanese avant-garde poet
• Chika Sakamoto (千夏; born 1959), Japanese voice actress
• Chica Umino (羽海野 チカ), Japanese manga artist
• Chika Yoshida (吉田 知加; born 1979), Japanese singer and songwriter
• Chika Yoshida (吉田 ちか; born 1984), Japanese YouTuber known as Bilingirl
• Exo-Chika, founding member of Aural Vampire (オーラルヴァンパイア), Japanese group

Fictional characters

• Chika Akatsuki (知佳), a character in the manga series Zombie-Loan
• Chika Fujiwara (千花), a character in the manga and anime series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
• Chika Ito (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Strawberry Marshmallow
• Chika Midarezaki (千花), a character in the Japanese light novel series Kyōran Kazoku Nikki
• Chika Minazuki (ちか), a character in the manga and anime series Ai Yori Aoshi
• Chika Misumi (千歌), a character in the mobile gacha game Princess Connect Re:Dive
• Chika Ogiue (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Genshiken
• Chika Takami (千歌), a character in the Japanese multimedia project Love Live! Sunshine!!
• Chika Yurikasa (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Shrine of the Morning Mist
• Chika Yamada (千夏), a character in the manga and anime series B Gata H Kei
• Chika Kudou (久遠愛), a character in the manga and anime series Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life
• Chika, a character in the manga series Monkey High!
• Chika Daimon, a character in the anime series Digimon Savers

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Chika
• All pages with titles containing Chika
• Chica (name)
• Chika (general name)
• Chika (Igbo given name)
• Chika (disambiguation)
• Chiki
• Chicka (disambiguation)