Yū

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

• 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"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

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, born 2002), 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, born 1983), Japanese boxer
• Yu Kimura (footballer) (木村 裕, born 1994), Japanese footballer
• Yū Kobayashi (ゆう, born 1982), a Japanese voice actress
• Yu Kobayashi (footballer) (小林 悠, born 1987), Japanese footballer
• Yū Koyama (ゆう), a Japanese manga artist
• Yu Minobe (美濃部 ゆう, born 1990), 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, born 1994), Japanese women's footballer
• 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, born 1985), 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

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
• Yu Narukami (鳴上 悠), the official name of the protagonist of Persona 4
• 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