Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese · mul
亞
“inferior; dependent”
亞 is a surname, probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
Chinese and Japanese and mulWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
亞 probably goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔrak, meaning “inferior; dependent.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔrak (“inferior; dependent”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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