Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
保
“to carry (on back or shoulders)”
保 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tamotsu.
Meaning & origin
What it means
保 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *puʔ, meaning “to carry (on back or shoulders).”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *puʔ (“to carry (on back or shoulders)”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
保’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 保 can be written in the Roman alphabet as TAMOTSU.
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Spellings & scripts 1
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Across languages 1
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People named 保
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