Junji

For the major general of the Tang Dynasty, see Hou Junji. For the Hong Kong film, see Shamo (film).

Junji (じゅんじ, ジュンジ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Junji

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Jun Jun'ichi Jun'ichirō Junko

Written forms

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

• 純二, "chaste, two"
• 純次, "chaste, next"
• 純治, "chaste, govern"
• 淳司, "pure, conduct"
• 淳次, "pure, next"
• 準二, "conform, two"
• 准次, "associate, next"
• 順二, "sequence, two"
• 順治, "sequence, govern"
• 潤次, "moisture, next"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Junji Arias (born 1976), Filipino singer and songwriter
• Junji Hirata (淳嗣, born 1956), Japanese professional wrestler
• Junji Ishiwatari (born 1977), Japanese musician, and former guitarist and songwriter for the Japanese rock band Supercar
• Junji Ito (潤二, born 1963), Japanese horror manga artist
• Junji Kinoshita (順二, 1914–2006), Japanese playwright
• Junji Majima (淳司, born 1978), Japanese voice actor
• Junji Nishimura (純二, born 1955), Japanese animation director and producer
• Junji Tanigawa (,born 1965), Japanese artist and designer
• Junji Sakamoto (順治, born 1957), Japanese film director
• Junji Takada (純次, born 1947), Japanese actor and comedian
• Junji Watanabe (渡部 惇二; born 1944), Japanese boxer

Characters

• Junji Manda (じゅんじ), a character in the anime series Ojamajo Doremi
• Junji, a character in the Adventures on the Orange Islands season of the Pokémon anime series. Known in the dub as Gulzar.