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Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Japanese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,009 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...
Lists of East Asian surnames include common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean surnames, or family names. List of common Chinese surnames List of common Japanese surnames
Ono (小野) and Ōno/Oono/Ohno (大野) are Japanese surnames.Ono means "small field" and Ōno means "large field". Both are used as Japanese surnames. Everyone in the list below (of people with these surnames) was born in Japan, unless otherwise noted.
While the term satori is derived from the Japanese verb "to know" (satoru), it is distinct from the philosophical concept of knowledge as it represents a transcendence of the distinction between one that knows and knowledge. [3] D. T. Suzuki, a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were influential in the West ...
Doi (土井、土居、土肥) are three Japanese family names that are pronounced identically, with the first kanji of each pair of characters meaning "earth." [1] Since they are the same phonetically, they are romanized identically: "do" for the first character and "i" for the second.