Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
新
“alive, fresh, green”
新 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
新 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ, meaning “alive, fresh, green.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ (“alive, fresh, green”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
新’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 新 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Sara. In Japanese usage, 新 has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Шин. In Japanese usage, 新 has a related form in 更.
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 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 新
Characters named 新: Sun Xin (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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