Save Type Surname Usage Popular Culture, Japanese Scripts 初音(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. HAWT-soo-NAY(Popular Culture) [key] Meaning & History This is an invented surname. A fictional bearer is the Yamaha engineered Vocaloid and fictional character, Hatsune Miku. It combines the kanji 初 (hatsu) translates to "first time" and 音 (oto) which means sound.