Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
敦
“ancestral shrine”·“sheep”
敦 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tsutomu.
Meaning & origin
What it means
敦 is built from elements meaning “ancestral shrine” and “sheep”.
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敦’s family of names
In Chinese usage, 敦 as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form Don. In Japanese usage, 敦 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Atsushi. In Japanese usage, 敦 can be written in the Roman alphabet as TSUTOMU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 敦
- Atsushi YanagisawaJapanese association football playerborn 1977
- Tortoise MatsumotoJapanese singerborn 1966
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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