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翼
つばさ
Tsubasa
tsoo-BAH-sah · a unisex name
“Wings”
Aspiring · Free · Uplifting
The story of Tsubasa
The one true Tsubasa — wings, written as they are.
Tsubasa is the word for wings, given whole as a name. Known worldwide through a certain football captain, it belongs equally to boys and girls with somewhere to go.
Kanji by kanji
wings
Feathers over a supporting frame — the kanji of wings and of lending others your strength.
How it feels
The full story
About 翼
翼 also means to support — a wing is what lifts others, too. The name wishes for flight, and for passengers brought along.
Popularity in Japan
Tsubasa soared in the 1980s and 1990s and still lands regularly on both boys' and girls' charts.
Through the decades
A generation's word for aspiration.
Deep dive
Wings appear wherever Japanese wishes get ambitious — song lyrics, school mottoes, farewell speeches. Tsubasa hands the metaphor to one person: your means of leaving the ground are your own.
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