Hanako (given name)

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Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, "flower girl."

It is often seen as an archetypal name for girls.^[1]

華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy' - it can noted. 'ko' is the second kanji, meaning 'girl (child)')).

[edit] Real people

• Hanako Tsugaru, later Princess Hitachi of Japan
• Hanako Yamada, Japanese comedian
• Hanako Oshima, Japanese musician
• Hanako Oku, Japanese singer/songwriter
• Ōta Hisa, a Japanese stage actress who went by the name "Hanako"

[edit] Fictional characters

• Miss Hanako of the Toilet (トイレの花子さん, Toire no Hanako-san^?), a ghost that haunts school bathrooms, according to Japanese urban legend (Gakkō no Kaidan).
• The original name of Delia Ketchum, mother of Ash Ketchum of Pokémon.

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