Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
時
“always, unchanging”
時 (Toki) is a feminine given name from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Toki.
Meaning & origin
What it means
時 goes back to a word meaning “always, unchanging.”
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Where it comes from
時 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
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How it developed
From Proto-Japonic *təki, built from Japanese 常 (toko) + い (i).
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時’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 時 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Toki.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 時
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