Given name · Japanese
了
“to perceive; to comprehend, to understand”
了 (Satoru) is a masculine given name. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Satoru.
Meaning & origin
What it means
了 goes back to a word meaning “to perceive; to comprehend, to understand.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
了’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 了 can be written in the Roman alphabet as SATORU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 19
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 了
- Ryo KimuraJapanese actorborn 1988
- Ryo SaitoJapanese professional wrestlerborn 1979
- Satoru OnoJapanese flying ace1915–2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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