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Surname · Chinese · Japanese

司馬

司馬 (Shiba) is a surname from Literary Chinese. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.

Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Shiba.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

司馬 comes from Literary Chinese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Literary Chinese 司馬.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

司馬’s family of names

In Japanese usage, 司馬 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as SHIBA.

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司馬ShibaSima

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 1

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