Surname · Chinese · Vietnamese
念
“upside-down mouth”·“heart”
念 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
Chinese and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
念 is built from elements meaning “upside-down mouth” and “heart”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
念’s family of names
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