Takeru

Takeru
Yamato Takeru, the legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty
Pronunciation	[ta.ke.ɽɯ]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Takeo

Takeru (たける, タケル) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Orthography

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

• 武, "warrior"
• 猛, "fierce"
• 健, "health"
• 尊, "noble"
• 岳

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Kanji combinations of the name are:

• 武尊
• 武瑠
• 武流
• 武琉
• 武留
• 丈瑠
• 丈流
• 丈琉
• 丈留
• 尊瑠
• 尊流
• 尊琉
• 尊留

People

• Takeru Inukai (健), a Japanese politician
• Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (尊), a Japanese competitive eater
• Takeru (Sug) (武瑠), a Japanese singer from the rock band Sug
• Takeru Nagayoshi (たける), a Japanese manga artist
• Takeru Satoh (健), a Japanese actor
• Yamato Takeru (タケル), legendary Japanese prince

Fictional characters

• Takeru (aka RedMask), a character in Hikari Sentai Maskman
• Takeru (タケル), the main character in the Freedom Project by Nissin Cup Noodles
• Takeru (猛), secondary character from the visual novel, anime and manga Togainu no Chi
• Takeru Edogawa, a character in the manga series The Devil Does Exist
• Takeru Ibaraki, a character in the American comic book series Witchblade
• Takeru Mizushima (タケル), a character in the Japanese TV drama Last Friends
• Takeru Ohyama, the main character in the anime and manga series Maken-ki!
• Takeru Shiba, a character in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
• Takeru Shirogane, the main character in the visual novel series Muv-Luv
• Takeru "T.K." Takaishi (タケル), a character in the anime and manga Digimon
• Takeru Takemoto (タケル), a character in the anime This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
• Takeru Teshimine (猛), a character in the anime and manga series GetBackers
• Takeru Yamato, the main character in the Dragon Knight series of Anime/H-games
• Takeru Tenkuji, the main character in Kamen Rider Ghost

Takeru Fujiwara, a character from Prince of Stride

Other uses

• Takeru: Letter of the Law, an interactive manga
• Brother Industries Takeru, software distribution mechanism in Japan