Chika
Encyclopedia
Chika is both a Japanese
and Igbo
name. It means 'God is supreme' in Igbo.
characters and can mean:
The name can also be written in hiragana
or katakana
.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and Igbo
Igbo language
Igbo , or Igbo proper, is a native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group primarily located in southeastern Nigeria. There are approximately 20 million speakers that are mostly in Nigeria and are primarily of Igbo descent. Igbo is a national language of Nigeria. It is written in the Latin...
name. It means 'God is supreme' in Igbo.
Possible writings in Japanese
Chika can be written using different kanjiKanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
characters and can mean:
- 千佳, "thousand, excellent"
- 千夏, "thousand, summer"
- 千賀, "thousand, celebration"
- 千香, "thousand, fragrance"
- 千花, "thousand, flower"
- 千華, "thousand, petals"
- 千果, "thousand, fruit"
- 知香, "knowledge, fragrance"
- 知佳, "knowledge, excellent"
- 智香, "wisdom, fragrance"
The name can also be written in hiragana
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...
or katakana
Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet . The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji. Each kana represents one mora...
.
Japanese
- Chika, a member of the Japanese girl group D&DD&D (band)D&D was a Japanese girl group that was moderately popular in the late '90's. Its members were Olivia, Chika and Aya . The trio are from the Okinawan Actors School and were managed by Rising Production....
- Chika Honda (千香), tourist, who spent over a decade in an Australian prison for importing heroin
- Chika SakamotoChika Sakamotois a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo affiliated with Arts Vision.-Television animation:*Baby and Me *Ashita no Nadja *Legend of the Mystical Ninja *Fighting Foodons *Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ...
(千夏, born 1959), Japanese voice actress - Chica UminoChica Uminois the pen name of an anonymous Japanese female manga artist, designer and illustrator.Umino is noted for being the author and creator of the Honey and Clover series, for which she received the Kodansha Manga Award in 2003, and which has been adapted into an anime series, produced by...
(チカ), Japanese manga artist
Nigerian
- Chika ChukwumerijeChika ChukwumerijeChika Chukwumerije is a male taekwondo practitioner from Nigeria. The son of Nigerian politician Uche Chukwumerije, Chika first drew attention in 2003 during the qualifiers for the 2003 All-Africa Games, where he eventually won a bronze medal in the Heavyweight Male category...
(born 1983), taekwondo practitioner - Chika UnigweChika UnigweChika Unigwe is a Nigerian-born author and she writes in English and Dutch.Chika Unigwe has a Ph.D in Literature from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Her debut novel, De Feniks was published in 2005 by Meulenhoff and Manteau and was shortlisted for the Vrouw en Kultuur debuutprijs...
(born 1974), Nigerian-born author - Chika WaliChika WaliChika Wali is an Nigerian football player who plays as a Defender for I-League team Pune.From the grounds of River State in Nigeria to Pune F.C, this solidly built Nigerian teenager has come some distance in every sense of the phrase....
(born 1990), football player
Characters
- Chika Akatsuki (知佳), a character in the manga series Zombie-Loan
- Chika Ito (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Strawberry Marshmellow
- Chika Midarezaki (千花), a character in the Japanese light novel series Kyōran Kazoku NikkiKyoran Kazoku Nikkiis a light novel series by Akira, with illustrations by x6suke. A 26 part anime adaptation was broadcast in 2008.- Plot summary :...
- Chika Minazuki (ちか), a character in the manga and anime series Ai Yori Aoshi
- Chika Yurikasa (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Shrine of the Morning MistShrine of the Morning Mistis a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hiroki Ugawa. The manga was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King Ours. The manga is licensed in North America by Tokyopop and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. The manga was adapted into an anime series, directed by Yuji Moriyama...
Other
- Chika, a documentary performance created by Mayu KanamoriMayu Kanamoriis an artist working mostly in photography, documentary photography, and still photography video art, often using photographic projection and story telling with emphasis on performance using interviews and narration....
- Chika Entertainment Inc., a ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an recor label, created by Nicole.