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Hajime

is the Japanese word meaning . In Japanese traditional martial arts such as karate, judo, aikido, Kūdō and kendo, it is a verbal command to "begin". Hajime is also a common Japanese given name for males.

In the Amami Islands, Hajime (元) is a surname.

Written forms

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

  • 始め, "beginning" or "start"
  • 初め, "beginning" or "first"
as a given name
  • 一, "first"
  • 元, "beginning" or "origin"
  • 始, "beginning" or "start"
  • 肇, "beginning"
  • 基, "fundamental"
  • 創, "genesis"
  • 孟, "beginning" or "chief"
  • 甫, "beginning" or "great"
  • 発, “emission”

The name can also be written in hiragana as はじめ and katakana as ハジメ.

People

Given name

  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese musician, actor and comedian
  • , Japanese sumo wrestler
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese football player
  • , first doctor to discover the Minamata disease
  • , Japanese voice actor
  • , Japanese manga artist; creator of manga Attack on Titan
  • , Japanese Vice-Admiral
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese footballer and manager
  • , Japanese rower
  • , Japanese table tennis player
  • , Japanese novelist and manga story writer
  • , Japanese mecha (fictional walking robots) designer
  • , Japanese Marxist economist
  • , Japanese karateka
  • , Japanese activist, and a recycle shop owner
  • , Japanese golfer
  • , Japanese cellist and composer
  • , Japanese football player
  • , Japanese academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures
  • , Japanese anime and film editor and director
  • , samurai who served in the Shinsengumi
  • , founder of Sammy Corporation
  • , Japanese photographer
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese illustrator
  • , minister of war in the Imperial Japanese Army
  • , Japanese writer
  • , Japanese journalist
  • , Japanese politician
  • , Japanese philosopher
  • , Japanese professional fighting game player
  • , Japanese alpine skier
  • , Japanese manga artist
  • , Japanese animator and character designer
  • Watanabe Hajime (samurai), Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period
  • , Japanese sport shooter
  • , Japanese amateur Go player
  • , Japanese politician

Surname

Characters

  • Hajime Aikawa (始), a character from the Japanese live-action television series Kamen Rider Blade
  • , a character from the anime series You and Idol Pretty Cure
  • Hajime Aoyagi (一), a character from the anime/manga series Yowamushi Pedal
  • Hajime Aoyama (ハジメ), a character from the anime series Ghost Stories
  • Hajime Fukuroda, a character from Japanese live-action television series Great Teacher Onizuka (2012)
  • , the protagonist of the visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
  • Hajime Ichinose (はじめ), the protagonist of Gatchaman Crowds
  • , a character from the anime series Haikyuu!! with the position of vice captain and wing spiker from Aoba Johsai High
  • (はじめ), a character from the anime/manga series Digimon Universe: App Monsters
  • Hajime Kindaichi (一), a character from the anime/manga series Kindaichi Case Files
  • Hajime Kunihiro (一), a female character from the anime/manga series Saki
  • Hajime Makunouchi, a character from the Danganronpa fangame, Super Danganronpa Another 2
  • , the protagonist in the anime and manga series Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
  • , a character from the anime series Dagashi Kashi
  • , a character from the game franchise Ensemble Stars!
  • Hajime Tanaka (田中 一), a character in the Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan rhythm video game duology
  • Hajime Tenga (一), one of the main characters from the anime series Kiznaiver
  • Hajime Tsukishima (基), a character from the anime/manga series Golden Kamuy
  • Hajime Yagi (はじめ), a character from the anime/manga series The World of Narue
  • Hajime Yamaoka, a character from Ultraman Nexus who were killed and resurrected by Dark Zagi using the alias Mitsuhiko Ishibori
  • , a character from the anime series Tsukiuta. The Animation
  • , a character from the anime/manga series Rurouni Kenshin
  • Hajime Kashimo (鹿紫雲一), a character from the manga series Jujutsu Kaisen

Other uses

See also

  • Hajime no Ippo, the Japanese title of the manga series Fighting Spirit