Given name & surname · Japanese
小鳥
“little”·“bird”
小鳥 (Kotori) is a feminine given name. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Kotori.
Meaning & origin
What it means
小鳥 is built from elements meaning “little” and “bird”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
First recorded late 900s.
小鳥’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 小鳥 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kotori.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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