Mei (given name)

Mei (Japanese: 芽衣, Mandarin: 美), is a feminine Japanese and Chinese given name.

Possible writings[]

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

• 芽衣, "sprout, garment"
• 芽依, "sprout, reliant"
• 明依, "bright, reliant"
• 鳴, "ring or echo"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Mei can also be written using different Chinese characters:^[1]

• 美, "beautiful"
• 梅, "Chinese plum"

People with the given name Mei[]

From Japan[]

• (目井 or 姪), a 12th-century Japanese female puppeteer, prostitute, and imayō-style singer. She taught imayō to Otomae, who in turn taught Emperor Goshirakawa.
• May J. (芽生), a Japanese R&B singer
• Mei Miura (三浦 芽依, born 1998), Japanese ice hockey player
• May Nakabayashi (芽依), a Japanese J-Pop artist
• Mei Kurokawa, (芽以), a Japanese actress and singer
• Mei Nagano (芽郁), a Japanese actress
• Mei Shigenobu (メイ), the daughter of Japanese Red Army communist Fusako Shigenobu
• (山崎愛生, born 2005) a Japanese singer who is a member of the J-pop girl group Morning Musume

From China[]

• Mei Fong (方凤美), a Chinese-American journalist.
• Mei Lin (梅琳), a Chinese actress.
• Mei Xu, a Chinese-American businesswoman.
• Mei Hong (chemist), a Chinese-American chemist.
• Hong Mei (athlete) (洪梅), a female Chinese athlete.

From other countries[]

• Mei Joni, an Indonesian basketball player.

Fictional characters with the given name Mei[]

Japanese characters[]

• Mey-Rin (メイリン), a character in the manga series Black Butler
• Mei (メイ), a character in the picture book and animated movie Arashi no Yoru ni
• Mei (メイ), a character in the manga series O-Parts Hunter
• Mei (メイ), a character in the tokusatsu television series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger
• Mei Aihara (藍原 芽衣), a character in the manga Citrus
• Mei Etoh (衛藤 芽生), a character in the manga series Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight!
• Mei Irizaki (西崎 芽依), a character in the anime series High School Fleet
• Mei Kusakabe (草壁 メイ), a character in the anime film My Neighbor Totoro
• Mei Misaki (見崎 鳴), a character in the novel Another
• Mei Narumiya (成宮 鳴), a character in the manga series Ace of Diamond
• Mei Narusegawa (成瀬川 メイ), a character in the manga series Love Hina
• Mei Sunohara (春原 芽衣), a character in the visual novel Clannad
• Mei Tachibana (橘 めい), protagonist of the manga series Say "I love you"
• Mei Terumi (照美 メイ), a character in the manga and anime series Naruto
• Mei Yasumura (安村 メイ), a character in the manga and anime series Ouran High School Host Club
• May Chang (メイ・チャン), a main character in the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
• Mei Hayakawa (早川 芽衣), a character in the manga series Scum's Wish
• Mei Hatsume (発目明) a character in the manga series "My Hero Academia"

Chinese characters[]

• Mei Chang. a Chinese woman who runs the prison commissary in the series Orange Is the New Black.
• Li Mei, a character in the Mortal Kombat series
• Mei (Overwatch), a playable character in Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm

References[]

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