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光
“shine; bright; yellow”
光 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and MandarinWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Hikari.
Meaning & origin
What it means
光 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ, meaning “shine; bright; yellow.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“shine; bright; yellow”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
光’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 光 can be written in the Roman alphabet as HIKARU. In Japanese usage, 光 can be written in the Roman alphabet as KWAU. In Japanese usage, 光 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kō.
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Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 36
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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- 昶equivalent
- 章equivalent
- 啓equivalent
- 明equivalent
- 晟equivalent
- 旭equivalent
- 輝equivalent
- 昭equivalent
- 周equivalent
- 東equivalent
- 行equivalent
- 章良equivalent
- 證equivalent
- 皓equivalent
- 晶equivalent
- 聡equivalent
- 鑑equivalent
- 暁equivalent
- 融equivalent
- 智equivalent
- 昌equivalent
- 哲equivalent
- 徹equivalent
- 亮equivalent
- Gwangequivalent
- Guangequivalent
- 陽equivalent
- 亨equivalent
People named 光
- Sima GuangChinese politician, writer, and historian during the Northern Song dynasty (1019–1086)
- Lü Guangemperor of Later Liang337–400
- Hikari IshidaJapanese singerborn 1972
- Hikaru YaotomeJapanese singerborn 1990
- Zeng GuangChinese epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Preventionborn 1946
- Pan GuangChinese academicborn 1947
- Hikaru ItoJapanese baseball playerborn 1989
- Hikari YamadaJapanese judokaborn 1967
- Hikaru IjūinJapanese radio personalityborn 1967
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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