Mari (given name)

Mari
Pronunciation	Má-rí
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	Japanese
Meaning	Different depending on the kanji
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Mariko Marié

Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese, Estonian, Hungarian, Finnish, Welsh, Swedish and Norwegian languages.

Japanese

In Japanese it appears as Mari (まり, マリ^?), or can be written using different kanji characters so that it means, respectively:

• 真理, "truth"
• 万里, "long distance"
• 茉莉, "jasmine"
• 麻里

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Mari Akasaka (真理, born 1964), Japanese novelist
• Mari Amachi (真理, born 1951), Japanese singer and actress
• Mari Eguro (真理), a Japanese American actress, musician and model known as Marie Eguro in the U.S.
• Mari Hamada (麻里, born 1962), Japanese rock singer
• Mari Hamada (actress) (マリ, born 1968), Japanese singer and actress
• Mari Hanafusa (まり, born 1974), Japanese actress in Takarazuka Revue
• Mari Henmi (マリ, born 1950), Japanese singer and actress
• Mari Hoshino (真里, born 1981), Japanese actress
• Mari Iijima (真理, born 1963), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Mari Kanō (茉莉), Japanese voice actress
• Mari Kimura, Japanese violinist and composer
• Mari Kodama (麻里), Japanese pianist
• Mari Konishi, a Japanese musician
• Mari Kotani (真理, born 1958), Japanese science fiction critic
• Mari Mashiba (摩利, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
• Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American lawyer, activist, and law professor
• Mari Motohashi (麻里, born 1986), Japanese curler
• Mari Natsuki (マリ, born 1952), Japanese singer, dancer, and actress
• Mari Ozaki (まり, born 1975), Japanese long-distance runner
• Mari Ozawa (真理), Japanese manga artist
• Mari Yaguchi (真里, born 1983), former member of the Japanese idol group Morning Musume
• Mari Yamaguchi (真理), a Japanese video game music composer
• Mari Yonehara (万里, 1950–2006), Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist
• Mori Mari (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese author and daughter of famed novelist Mori Ōgai
• Annu Mari (真理, born 1948), Indo–Japanese actress

Characters

• Mari Yamashita (マリ), a recurring character from the manga series Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs
• Ayuki Mari (摩利), a supporting character in Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl
• Mari Jiwe McCabe, also known as Vixen, a DC Comics character.

See also

• Mari (disambiguation)
• Temari (toy), "hand ball" in Japanese

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