Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
愛
“to copulate; to love; to be gentle”
愛 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Sara.
Meaning & origin
What it means
愛 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋ-(w)aːj, meaning “to copulate; to love; to be gentle.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋ-(w)aːj (“to copulate; to love; to be gentle”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
愛’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 愛 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sara. In Japanese usage, 愛 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Mei. In Japanese usage, 愛 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Rui.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 51
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- Sararomanization · Japanese
- Ayaromanization · Japanese
- Meiromanization · Japanese
- Ruiromanization · Japanese
- Arisaromanization · Japanese
- Erinaromanization · Japanese
- Manaromanization · Japanese
- Izumiromanization · Japanese
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- Akiromanization · Japanese
- Kanaromanization · Japanese
- Azumiromanization · Japanese
- Aoiromanization · Japanese
- Saranromanization · Japanese
- Hikariromanization · Japanese
- Yoshiromanization · Japanese
- Megumiromanization · Japanese
- Amikaromanization · Japanese
- Nozomiromanization · Japanese
- Yoshimiromanization · Japanese
- Yoshikiromanization · Japanese
- Naruromanization · Japanese
- Manamiromanization · Japanese
- Manaburomanization · Japanese
- Madokaromanization · Japanese
- Kokororomanization · Japanese
- Kanaeromanization · Japanese
- Chikaromanization · Japanese
- Ayuromanization · Japanese
- Akoromanization · Japanese
- Aikaromanization · Japanese
- Airomanization · Japanese
- Uiromanization · Japanese
- Tsukumiromanization · Japanese
- Tsugumiromanization · Japanese
- Raburomanization · Japanese
- Narukoromanization · Japanese
- Megumuromanization · Japanese
- Meguromanization · Japanese
- Megoromanization · Japanese
- Mezururomanization · Japanese
- Konomuromanization · Japanese
- Kizunaromanization · Japanese
- Kanasaromanization · Japanese
- Itsumiromanization · Japanese
- Itoshiromanization · Japanese
- Itoromanization · Japanese
- Hātoromanization · Japanese
- Chikashiromanization · Japanese
- Chigiriromanization · Japanese
- Aisuromanization · Japanese
- Āiromanization · Japanese
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 愛
- Ai OtsukaJapanese singer-songwriterborn 1982
- Ai FukuharaJapanese table tennis playerborn 1988
- Ai HashimotoJapanese model, actress, singer (born 1996)
- Ai MaedaJapanese voice actress and singerborn 1975
- Ai ShinozakiJapanese gravure idol, singer, and a former member of "AeLL."born 1992
- Ai HarunaJapanese transsexual TV personalityborn 1972
- Ai TominagaJapanese fashion modelborn 1982
- Ai ŌtomoJapanese volleyball playerborn 1982
- Ai NaganoJapanese voice actressborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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