Given name & surname · Japanese
心
心 is a masculine given name from Middle Chinese, ultimately from Sanskrit. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Kokoro.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
心 comes from Middle Chinese, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
心’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 心 can be written in the Roman alphabet as KOKORO. In Japanese usage, 心 has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Шин. In Japanese usage, 心 has a related form in 情.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 心
- Qi Xin2nd wife of Xi Zhongxun and mother of CCP general secretary Xi Jinpingborn 1926
- Shin OonumaJapanese animation and theatre directorborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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