Os kanji (漢字) são caracteres da língua japonesa adquiridos a partir de caracteres chineses, da época da Dinastia Han, que se utilizam para escrever japonês junto com os caracteres silabários japoneses katakana e hiragana.
Akuma (アクマ, "devil" in Japanese), known as Gouki (豪鬼 Gōki "great spirit", "great demon" or "great ogre") in Japan, is one of the most popular characters from Street Fighter and a central character in the UDON comics. His first video game appearance in the series was in Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The kanji ten (天) - meaning "sky", "heaven", or "providence" - can be seen on the back of his gi. Capcom has stated that this symbol was meant to represent "immortality". Akuma wears a symbol on his back, referred to in Street Fighter as the 'ten' symbol. It means several things as Japanese words often do, including 'day', 'heaven' and 'invincibility'. David Williams wrote in and adds: "It is synonymous with 'Immortal'. It basically means what Capcom has always conveyed, that Gouki is no longer human. In folklore, whenever the character "ten" appears on a person's forehead, it means that that person is immortal. Capcom, for clarities sake, placed the symbol on the back of his gai".











