This is a
Japanese name. The family name is
Hatsune.
Hatsune Miku (Japanese: 初音ミク), sometimes referred to as Miku Hatsune, or Miku for short, is a humanoid persona voiced by a singing synthesizer application developed by Crypton Future Media.
Name
The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (初 hatsu), sound (音 ne) and future (ミク miku), thus meaning "the first sound from the future", referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series."
Her name in Chinese is "初音未来" (Chūyīn Wèilái).
Her codename of "CV01" means "Character Voice 01".
VOCALOID family |
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| VOCALOID1 | Zero-G | | | Crypton Future Media | |
| | VOCALOID2 | Zero-G | | | Crypton Future Media | | | Internet | | | PowerFX | | | AH-Software | | | YAMAHA | | | Sony Music | |
| | VOCALOID3 | Shanghai HENIAN | | | Gynoid | | | SBS A&T | | | PowerFX | | | YAMAHA | | | MI7 Japan | | | VOCALOID NEXT | | | Lawson, Inc. | | | Internet | | | Voctro Labs | | | DearStage | | | AH-Software | | | i-Style Project | | | 1st PLACE | | | Zero-G | | | Exit Tunes | | | Crypton Future Media | | | We've | | | Fuji TV | | | Netease | |
| | VOCALOID4 | PowerFX | | | AH-Software | | | YAMAHA | | | Gynoid | | | Crypton Future Media | | | Internet | | | Quadimension | | | Zero-G | | | We've | | | Unity | | | MI7 Japan | | | Sharp | | | DearStage | | | Shanghai HENIAN | | | ST Media | | | SEGA | | | 1st PLACE | | | Exit Tunes | | | Shanghai WANGSHENG | | | AVA | |
| | VOCALOID5 | AH-Software | | | YAMAHA | | | Shanghai HENIAN | | | Gynoid | |
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