Yū

Yū or Yu or Yuu (ゆう, ユウ) is a very common Japanese given name used by either sex.

Possible writings
Yū can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 優, "tenderness" or "superiority"
 * 夕, "evening"
 * 友, "friend"
 * 有, "qualified"
 * 勇, "courage"
 * 祐, "help"
 * 裕, "abundant"
 * 雄, "masculine"
 * 悠, "permanence"
 * 由宇, "reason, eaves"
 * 侑, "assist"

People

 * with the given name Yū
 * Yu Aida (裕), a Japanese manga artist and illustrator
 * Yū Aoi (優), a Japanese actress
 * Yū Asagiri (夕), a Japanese manga artist
 * Yū Asakawa (悠, born 1975), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yu Darvish (有), an Iranian-Japanese starting pitcher
 * Yu Fukumoto (福本 悠), Japanese footballer
 * Yū Hayami (優), a Japanese pop singer and actress
 * Yū Hasebe (優), a Japanese actress, singer and model
 * Yū Hayashi (勇), a Japanese voice actor and singer
 * Yuu Kashii (由宇), a Japanese actress and model
 * Yuu Kikkawa (友), a Japanese pop singer
 * Yū Kikumura (憂), a member of the Japanese Red Army
 * Yu Kimura (boxer) (木村 悠), Japanese boxer
 * Yu Kimura (footballer) (木村 裕), Japanese footballer
 * Yū Kobayashi (ゆう, born 1982), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yu Kobayashi (footballer) (小林 悠), Japanese footballer
 * Yū Koyama (ゆう), a Japanese manga artist
 * Yu Minobe (美濃部 ゆう), Japanese artistic gymnast
 * Yu Miyahara (宮原 優), Japanese sport wrestler
 * Yuu Miyake (優), a Japanese composer and sound engineer
 * Yū Mizushima (裕), a Japanese voice actor
 * Yu Nakajima (悠), a Japanese Rubik's Cube solver
 * Yu Nakasato (中里 優), Japanese women's footballer
 * Yu Narukami (悠), a Japanese detective and fighter
 * Yū Sasahara (篠原 侑), Japanese voice actress
 * Yū Serizawa (芹澤 優), Japanese voice actress and singer
 * Yū Shiina (椎名 優), usually written You Shiina, Japanese illustrator and manga artist
 * Yū Shimaka (裕), a Japanese voice actor
 * Yū Shimamura (嶋村 侑), Japanese voice actress
 * Yuu Shirota (優), a Japanese-Spanish actor and singer
 * Yuu Shiroyama (優), real name of The Gazette's guitarist Aoi
 * Yū Sugimoto (ゆう), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yu Suzuki (裕), a Japanese game designer and producer
 * Yu Takahashi (高橋 優), a Japanese singer-songwriter
 * Yū Terashima (優), a Japanese manga artist
 * Yu Todoroki (悠), a Japanese Takarasienne
 * Yū Wakui: (和久井 優), a Japanese voice actress
 * Yuu Watase (悠宇), a Japanese shōjo manga artist
 * Yuu Yabuuchi (優), a Japanese manga artist
 * Yu Yagami (裕), a Japanese manga artist
 * Yu Yamada (優), a Ryukyuan model, actress, and singer
 * Yu Yokoyama (裕), a member of the Japanese idol group Kanjani8

Fictional characters

 * with the given name Yū
 * Yu Kajima (カジマ), a character from the Gundam anime series
 * Yuu Asou (麻生 優雨), a character from the Fatal Frame III: The Tormented video game series
 * Yū Kanda (ユウ), a main character in the manga series D.Gray-man
 * Yū Komori (ユウ), a main character in Spider-Man: The Manga
 * Yuu Matsuura (遊), a central character in the shōjo manga series Marmalade Boy
 * Yū Nishinoya (夕), a character from the Haikyū!! anime series
 * Yuu Kashima (遊), a character from the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun anime series
 * Yu Ominae (優), the main character of the manga series Spriggan
 * Yū Kōtari (神足 ユウ), a character from the BLACK★ROCK SHOOTER anime series
 * Yu Ishigami (石上 優), a character from the manga series Kaguya-sama: Love is War
 * Yuu Otosaka (乙坂 有宇), a character from the anime television series Charlotte
 * Yu Takasaki (高咲 侑), a character from the anime series Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club
 * Yū, a character from Dōbutsu no Mori (film)
 * Yū Naruse (usually called Yuu-chan), a main character in the manga WataMote
 * Yū Koito (小糸 侑), the main character from the anime Bloom into You
 * Yū Nanba (難波 悠), a supporting character and party member in Yakuza: Like a Dragon