Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese

宰

“house”·“to govern”

宰 is a surname. It is used in Chinese.

Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script.

Meaning & origin

What it means

宰 is built from elements meaning “house” and “to govern”.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

宰’s family of names

In Japanese usage, 宰 has a related form in 長.

Walk 宰’s family in the name graph

宰長

The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Similar names

If you love 宰, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.