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力
“power, life force, essence”·“source, origin”
力 (Chikara) is a masculine given name from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Chikara.
Meaning & origin
What it means
力 is built from elements meaning “power, life force, essence” and “source, origin”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
力 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Japonic *tikara, built from Japanese 霊 (chi, “power, life force, essence”) + 柄 (kara, “source, origin”).
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力’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 力 can be written in the Roman alphabet as CHIKARA.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 力
- Riki HarakawaJapanese association football playerborn 1993
- Riki MatsudaJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Riki NakayaJapanese judokaborn 1989
- Ni-KiJapanese singer and rapperborn 2005
- Yin LiChinese politicianborn 1962
- Wang LiChinese linguist (1900–1986)
- Riki TakeuchiJapanese actor-singerborn 1964
- Gu LiChinese Go playerborn 1983
- Riki MiuraJapanese actorborn 1983
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