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孔
“hole; orifice; inner part”
孔 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
Chinese and Korean and Vietnamese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
孔 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ, meaning “hole; orifice; inner part.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
孔’s family of names
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Across languages 4
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See also 2
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