Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
庵
“house; pit; womb”
庵 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: An.
Meaning & origin
What it means
庵 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum, meaning “house; pit; womb.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house; pit; womb”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
庵’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 庵 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as An. In Japanese usage, 庵 as a surname has a transliteration in An. In Japanese usage, 庵 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Ifori.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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