Asian Name characters about last name

October 13, 2015 TAKA 0 Comments

Asian last name characters

Name letters have own culture of the each country.

張(Zhang) : meaning blind sheet.(don’t imagine plastic ones in office, maybe Oriental traditional types.)

佐藤(Sato) : Nearly no meaning. directory translated to ,Assisting, Wisteria

藤 Wisteria is popular family name letter.
Middle ages Japanese famous noble family 藤原(Fuji wara) is the attached 藤 family name roots.(Although most people are not related the family.)

金(Kim): meaning gold.

These are the most common family name in China, Japan, and especially in N&S Koreas.

probably world most famous Kim

In China,

Suprisingly, Mr. and Ms. Zhang’s population is as same as the population of France plus Spain!

And, whether it’s for the short sound, they often call their name with full.

For common family name examples in China.

王 Wang　　 meaning King.  (In China, there are more than 60,000,000 Kings now)

It’s pronounced Oh in Japan. If Japanese hear the name, would remember to historical home run record holder Sadaharu Oh(王貞治) who born in Taiwan. His last name means king, and the record is literally king.

馬 Ma 　　 meaning horse. It’s Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s Ma.

李 Li　　　  meaning plum. (Kung fu stars, Bruce Lee, Jet Lee)

In Japan,

Western names have the many types of coming from jobs.

But Japanese name are mainly coming from nature or land form.

Japan have so many family names.

Japanese family name examples:

鈴木　Suzu ki    Bell Tree.   Ichiro the baseball player is this.

田中 Ta naka   Lice field   Center

山田  Yama Da   Mountain   Lice field

If you see this letter 田 in the name, maybe the Asian is Japanese in 95 %!

In N&S Korean name examples:

Korean has strict rule.

They are prohibited from marrying same family name person in same region.

But Korean peninsula has lots of people but their family name is few types.

In especially, There are 3 major family names.

Kim is the one of the 3 names. The others are,,

李 Li    means Plum. yep,  the same letter of the Chinese one.

朴 Pak 　means Magnolia.   The president of the South Korea is this family name.

Thank you for reading!