Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
巴
“archer's left-wrist protector”·“picture, drawing”
巴 (Tomoe) is a unisex given name. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tomoe.
Meaning & origin
What it means
巴 is built from elements meaning “archer's left-wrist protector” and “picture, drawing”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Japanese 鞆 (tomo, “archer's left-wrist protector”) + 絵 (e, “picture, drawing”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
巴’s family of names
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