Surname · Chinese · Japanese
宗
“to build”
宗 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Sō.
Meaning & origin
What it means
宗 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik, meaning “to build.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (“to build”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
宗’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 宗 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sō.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Chongequivalent
- Jongequivalent
- Zongborrowing · English
- 柊equivalent
- Shūequivalent
- 修equivalent
- 舟equivalent
- 優equivalent
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People named 宗
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