Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Yamashita

山下やました

Yamashita is among the thirty or so most common surnames in Japan. Its kanji read as mountain + below.

Hiragana
やました
Katakana
ヤマシタ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Yamashita
Morae
4 やました
How common
Very common

The kanji

  1. 山mountainMountains & land
  2. 下below, lower

As a full name

  • 山下 陸Riku Yamashita
  • 山下 恵麻Ema Yamashita
  • 山下 雪Yuki Yamashita
  • 山下 雪子Yukiko Yamashita

Surnames that share a kanji