Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
伸
“to stretch out”
伸 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Noburu.
Meaning & origin
What it means
伸 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsjan ~ *dzjan, meaning “to stretch out.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsjan ~ *dzjan (“to stretch out”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
伸’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 伸 can be written in the Roman alphabet as NOBURU. In Japanese usage, 伸 has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Шин.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 伸
- Shin AsahinaJapanese association football playerborn 1976
- Shin KibayashiJapanese mangaka and novelistborn 1962
- Shin TakamatsuJapanese architectborn 1948
- Shin AomoriJapanese voice actorborn 1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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