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朴
朴 (paku) is a surname from Korean. It is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Chinese and Japanese and Korean and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Bak.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Japanese usage, 朴 as a surname developed from 박.
朴’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 朴 as a surname developed from the Korean form 박. 朴 as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form BAK. In Japanese usage, 朴 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as PAKU.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
朴 has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Korean roots to each of them.
Koreanwhere 朴 comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
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