Koichi

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Kōichi


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pronunciation= Có-ichi
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origin = Japanese
related names = Hiroshi
Koji
footnotes = is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Possible Writings

Kōichi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*晃一, "clear, one"
*幸一, "happiness, one"
*光一, "light, one"
*孝一, "filial piety, one"
*弘一, "vast, one"
*浩一, "abundance, one"
*宏一, "wide, one"The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Real People

;with the given name Kōichi
* Koichi Chigira (孝一), a Japanese anime director
* Kōichi Dōmoto, a Japanese performing artist
* Koichi Fukuda, a Japanese musician
* Koichi Ishii, a Japanese game designer
* Koichi Kashiwaya, a Japanese aikido practitioner and teacher
* Koichi Kato (LDP), a Japanese politician
* Koichi Kato (DPJ), a Japanese politician
* Koichi Kawakita, a Japanese special effects artist
* Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan during World War II
* Koichi Kitamura, a Japanese voice actor
* Kōichi Mashimo, a Japanese anime director
* Koichi Morita, a Japanese military officer
* Koichi Nishimura, a Japanese volleyball player
* Koichi Sugiyama, a Japanese video game composer
* Koichi Tanaka, a Japanese Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
* Koichi Tohei, a Japanese aikido practitioner
* Koichi Tokita, a Japanese manga artist
* Kouichi Toochika, a Japanese voice actor
* Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut
* Kōichi Yamadera, a Japanese voice actor
* Koichi Kobayashi, a Japanese Go player

Fictional characters

;with the given name Kōichi
* Koichi Kimura, from the TV series "Digimon Frontier"
* Koichi Zenigata, from "Lupin III"