Chika (Japanese given name)

Chika (ちか, チカ) is a feminine Japanese given name. The name Chika can be written with the kanji characters 千 (chi) meaning "thousand", 智 (chi) meaning "wisdom, intellect" or 散 (chi) meaning "scatter" combined with 佳 (ka) meaning "good, fine" or 花 (ka) meaning "flower". Chika can also be written with many different kanji characters thus, giving the name various meanings.

Possible writings in Japanese
Chika can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
 * 千佳, "thousand, excellence"
 * 千夏, "thousand, summer"
 * 千賀, "thousand, celebration"
 * 千香, "thousand, fragrance"
 * 千花, "thousand, flower"
 * 千華, "thousand, chinese flower"
 * 千果, "thousand, fruit"
 * 知香, "knowledge, fragrance"
 * 知佳, "knowledge, excellence"
 * 智香, "wisdom, fragrance"
 * 愛, "love" (nanori reading)

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

 * Chika, a member of the Japanese girl group D&D
 * Chika Anzai (安済 知佳), Japanese voice actress
 * Chika Aoki (青木 千佳), Japanese fencer
 * Chika Hirao (平尾 知佳), Japanese women's footballer
 * Chika Kato (加藤 千佳), Japanese professional footballer
 * Chika Kodama (born 1970), Japanese softball player
 * Chika Kuroda (黒田 チカ), Japanese chemist
 * Chika Otaki (大滝 知香), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Chika Sagawa (左川 ちか), Japanese avant-garde poet
 * Chika Sakamoto (千夏), Japanese voice actress
 * Chica Umino (羽海野 チカ), Japanese manga artist
 * Chika Yoshida (吉田 知加), Japanese singer and songwriter
 * Chika Yoshida (吉田 ちか), Japanese YouTuber known as Bilingirl
 * Exo-Chika, founding member of Aural Vampire (オーラルヴァンパイア), Japanese group

Fictional characters

 * Chika Akatsuki (知佳), a character in the manga series Zombie-Loan
 * Chika Amatori, a character in the manga and anime series World Trigger
 * Chika Fujiwara (千花), a character in the manga and anime series Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
 * Chika Ito (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Strawberry Marshmallow
 * Chika Midarezaki (千花), a character in the Japanese light novel series Kyōran Kazoku Nikki
 * Chika Minazuki (ちか), a character in the manga and anime series Ai Yori Aoshi
 * Chika Misumi (千歌), a character in the mobile gacha game Princess Connect Re:Dive
 * Chika Ogiue (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Genshiken
 * Chika Takami (千歌), a character in the Japanese multimedia project Love Live! Sunshine!!
 * Chika Yurikasa (千佳), a character in the manga and anime series Shrine of the Morning Mist
 * Chika Yamada (千夏), a character in the manga and anime series B Gata H Kei
 * Chika Kudou (久遠愛), a character in the manga and anime series Kono Oto Tomare! Sounds of Life
 * Chika, a character in the manga series Monkey High!