Akina

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name = Akina


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nihongo|Akina |あきな, アキナ is a common Japanese feminine given name.

Possible writings in Japanese kanji

Akina can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*明菜, "bright, greens"
*明奈, "bright, Nara"
*明名, "bright, name"
*明南, "bright, south"
*秋菜, "autumn, greens"
*秋名, "autumn, name"
*亜稀菜, "Asia, rare, greens"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Real people

;with the given name Akina
*AKINA, a member of a five-girl J-pop idol group "Folder 5"
*Akina Minami (明奈), a Japanese gravure idol
*Akina Nakamori (明菜), a Japanese pop singer
*Akina Shirt, a Canadian singer;with the surname Akina
*Duane Akina, an American assistant head coach for the University of Texas Longhorn football team
*Pau Ming Wai Akina, a fencer from Hong Kong, China

Fictional characters

;with the given name Akina
*Akina, a character in the 3D-CG Chinese animated TV series "Zentrix"
*Akina, a character in the anime television series "Najica Blitz Tactics"
*Akina Yashiro, a character in the shōjo manga series "W Pinch"
*Akina Nanamura (秋菜), a character in the manga and anime series "UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie"
*Akina Hiizumi, a character from the manga "Yozakura Quartet"

Other uses

*Akina (秋名), a mountain, appears in the anime "Initial D"
*Akina, a suburb of the city of Hastings, in the Hawke's Bay Region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand