Two unrelated bearers, both rendered with these characters: (1) Asuka — common Japanese given name (
飞鸟 in kanji), e.g.
惣流·
亚斯卡·
兰格雷 (Sōryū Asuka Langley) of Neon Genesis Evangelion. (2) Yaska — the ~6th-century-BCE Sanskrit grammarian who wrote the Nirukta, a classical etymology text. Context is what disambiguates.
