Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
康
“threshing tools”·“rice”
康 is a surname from Central Asian. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Yasushi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
康 is built from elements meaning “threshing tools” and “rice”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
康’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 康 can be written in the Roman alphabet as YASUSHI.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 康
- Ko TakamoroJapanese association football player (1907-1995)
- Ko IshikawaJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Yasushi AkimotoJapanese producer and lyricist (born 1958)
- Kō MachidaJapanese writer, musician, and actor (born 1962)
- Kō NakahiraJapanese film director (1926–1978)
- Ko WatahikiJapanese association football playerborn 1998
- Chen KangChinese badminton playerborn 1965
- Yasushi FurukawaJapanese politicianborn 1958
- Feng KangChinese mathematician (1920-1993)
Characters named 康: Meng Kang (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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