Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
允
“to believe”
允 is a surname, possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Makoto.
Meaning & origin
What it means
允 possibly goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *yum, meaning “to believe.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *yum (“to believe”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
允’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 允 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Makoto.
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 允
- Wang YunHan dynasty politician and official (137–192)
- Lin YunChinese actress and modelborn 1996
- Dong YunShu Han state general and official (died 246)150–246
- Choe Yunwriterborn 1953
- Makoto Satōactor (1934-2012)
- Go YoonSouth Korean actorborn 1988
- Zhang YunChinese General
- Gao YunChinese Chancellor (390-487)
- Murong FuyunRuler of Tuyuhun597–635
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love 允, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.